You do own one of thes, right?
You didn't give up on DVDs, did you?
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You do own one of thes, right? You didn't give up on DVDs, did you?
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You didn't give up on DVDs, did you?
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I just used one of these yesterday to watch a DVD I loaned from the library
Yes, but i probably used it once or twice in a few years.
Replaced it with a HDD in my dankpad, but still have DVD RW drives in my desktops.
Hell I even bought a DVD from fricking Uganda a few months ago.
was it who killed captain alex?
>Hell I even bought a DVD from fricking Uganda a few months ago.
it was "who killed captain alex" wasn't it
When i built my home theatre PC over a decade ago, i thought i should put a dvd/bluray drive in it just to be sure.
It has never been used.
I hate optical so much it's unreal.
Filtered
Bought an external one 7 years ago and can count on one hand the amount of time I had to use it.
>can count on one hand the amount of time I had to use it.
That could be a little or a lot depending on what unit of time you're talking about.
>Visit different relatives throughout the year.
>Ask to see their DVD collection.
>Pull out laptop with external LG dvd drive.
>Rip all DVDs I dont have while visiting.
>Add to home network and play on $20 android boxes to any TV I want.
Repeat with next family visit with other relatives. Some asked what I do, I tell them and then sell them for $100 a Android box ($20) and 1 512gb usb device or 1tb external hard drive ($50) filled with movies and shows. Along with 1 page of instructions and if the drive gets corrupted I just swap it out.
Never had a complaint.
i have a bluray drive for the soul purpose of ripping physical media. audio cd/video dvd/blurays all of them are the best way to obtain media, includes physical backup. dont be a streaming cuck, rip that shit and seed it with your friends who are gay enough to pay for ephemeral content
Can I use Bluray as backup? Are they reliable?
Ryzen 5800X and DVD RW drive, yes
>Maikrosoft Windows 10 Korporativnaja 64-bit
that is win10 enterprise right? because i have seen that on active directory operating system listings and wondered what it is, and i have thought that maybe korporativnaja = corporative = corporation = enterprise
yes, Enterprise
>Ryzen 5800X and DVD RW drive
same, it was already in the case so i left it there
but i haven't used it at all since i upgraded to ryzen last year
and since i got the drive in 2008 i think i've used it... twice?
I have 2 of them
I have a chinesium one I bought for writing mini dvds for my gamecube.
na, but i do have a 5.25" drive in my main computer still, if that counts
I do but only because I own a lot of legacy media. Optical drives are dead.
Should switch to a BD wriyter
im one of the few lunatics who has a 5.25" blu-ray drive in their desktop
>im one of the few lunatics who has a 5.25" blu-ray drive in their desktop
Why lunatics? Aren’t they good?
We are in 2022 and DVD is so old, why not to make the switch to new optical disks?
what new optical discs?
>what new optical discs?
Blue Ray
bluray is 16 years old
i have a few spare disk drives and will get some CD disks later, yeah
My father has a bunch of illegal copied DVDs in storage space. Should I rip them? Redpill me please.
>Selling shit to the people that gave you the material
I applause your intelligence anon. I wish I were more smart like you.
you can if you like, but know that they're likely lower quality than original disc
while it being a digital format means perfect copies are possible, there's a small snag in that idea, the fact most commercial dvds are made on dual-layer discs, and dual-layer recordables cost more, so for cheapo pirated copies people just went for the cheap router of recompressing movies to up to half their original size to squeeze them onto cheaper single layer discs
ps. the quality difference was often not even that much on a small crt tv using composite, but you'll sure see it on any modern display
So even if it's the full dvd with menus, extras and commentary tracks you're saying the video quality is being compressed? I'm a bit confused. I know that for example PS2 games that were double layer where impossible without compression of video files and gimmicks that let you squeeze it onto a single layer one... But people did the same with DVD movies? I think I'm missing something. Sorry if this is a brainlet response.
PS You made me recall that time where there was no streaming platform and we would rent DVDs just to rip them if we liked the movie. Good times!
there were very few dual-layer ps2 games, there were very few single-layer dvd movies
i rented and burned literally over 100 dvds during the period where it was cheap enough to do that and also my internet and storage space didn't allow for downloading and storing rips instead (so mid-late 00's)
"literally 100 movies" doesn't sound like much nowadays in an era when you can download a movie in 10 minutes and use a fraction of a percent of disk space, but back when you still had to go to the shops, and pay to at least rent them, yes, it was a lot
most of my copied movies i did using clonedvd, because i liked how it preserves all the dvd structure and features, like menus and bonus features, only recompressing the videos themselves to fit onto single layer discs (the cost between single and dual layer was really quite significant)
just look at the disc, if it says it's 4.7GB, it's single layer, and it's just about gauranteed to be recompressed, i only had one movie that i can recall was single layer originally, and it was a pretty low budget title
(i also rented and copied tons of ps2 games at that time, too, though dual layer games like god of war i did have to leave on the internal hdd)
>yes, it was a lot
Yes it was
>(the cost between single and dual layer was really quite significant)
Yes it fricking was... Damn
>it's just about gauranteed to be recompressed,
Today I learnt something new. Thanks anon. I wish those storaged DVDs were licensed copies. I miss those times were you'd watch a movie and after dinner you could watch how they made it and stuff like that. Today that has been lost unless you can afford to buy the BD (I can't) or have a lot of storage to download the full BD.
it's not to say keeping them is useless, i mean it's still neat to go through the menus and bonus features, even if they aren't their original quality, they're usually still better than the typical rips of the era, where people do bonus things like deinterlace 60i video to 30p, or drop the resolution to 640x360, a recompressed dvd is often still better quality than your average 700MB xvid rip, hell probably better than a 2cd 1.4GB rip, while mpeg2 is less efficient, even a single layer dvd is still 4.7GB, which xvid can't keep up with at those sizes
Noted. I'll dig through them next weekend.
What's your recommended software to rip DVDs in the modern day and age? (I use Linux but maybe it can run on Wine)
since they're pirated copies, and you want to keep the menus (presumably), then you can literally just copy the drive to an image (like "cp /dev/sr0 /path/to/movie.iso") (technically dvd's don't use the iso9660 format like cd's but everyone uses .iso anyway so eh), because there's no encryption on the discs anymore
or you can just copy + paste the folders from the disc (often just "VIDEO_TS"), all dvd-capable players such as vlc or kodi will be able to handle full images or a folder structure
no need for any dvd-specific tool, since they're only for decryption official discs and ripping/remuxing them in some way, which you presumably don't want to do
Thanks anon. I wish many comfy days for you.
>illegal copied DVDs
have a nice day
No I won't. Enjoy IQfy anon.
I'm waiting for the price of blu ray to drop in 10 years.
Now I'm thinking of using pen drivers
>I'm waiting for the price of blu ray to drop in 10 years.
Will it drop in 10 years? were 16 years since release but the price didn’t drop too much
it will drop when it becomes popular
that's why it didn't drop like dvd did
>it will drop when it becomes popular
Maybe movie studios keep the price of blanks and writers high to avoid piracy.
When the price will drop will be obsolete
Yeah, made portable DVD and BluRay players by canibalizing notebook components. Very useful for ripping Physical media.
I have a full size optical drive in my desktop just because I can.
I haven't used a piece of optical media in a decade at least.
But do you own a DVD RW drive?
No, I don't
I have a BD RW drive and used it to rip some movies the other day
blu-ray burners were mad expensive when they first came out. are they cheaper now or still high due to rarity?
still high, not rarity but something to do with snoy licensing
Being the poorest of poorgays growing up I went directly from cassettes and VHS to 100% digital.
Years of old second-hand store and yard sale entertainment led me to become a stingy frick who hasn't paid for media in many years.
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i have external one because the cia Black folk broke my main one
i have 2 of these somewhere
I have a Blu-ray drive that can circumvent movie disc copy protection.
Name it
Blu-ray only. My DVDs are dying.
No I don't, because I had no idea what "thes" was
Burning ISOs to a DVD or CD can be more reliable than using a thumb drive in my experience, so yes.
that's a dvd burner, right? I have one because it came included with my gaymen laptop. I copied like a 1000's dad songs for my old man's CD's
What laptop has this included in 2022? Or do you have an old device?
it's a laptop from 2015.
Yes, I am about to burn 700mb of shit into one actually
I bought one of these just in case and never used it.
Why would I use that piece of shit when I have the same BenQ SATA DVD+/-R/RW burner that I've been using for 18 years?
I have a Blu-ray drive that can read and rip 4K Blu-rays.
I have old shit on DVDs and CDs. Plus I have Blu-rays of my favorite few movies
After you insert a recorded CD or DVD in a computer, after removing it the information on it will be the same
After you insert a recorded flash drive or external hdd in a computer, after removing it you can’t be 100% sure that information on it will be the same
Meds.
you could record checksums of everything on the
USB device
Yes is true. But this way you have the certitude that none of the files you have is modified without bothering with checksum.
What if you have 1000 of files, you calculate 1000 of checksums?
I pretty much only use them for backups of small but important files, they're too small for anything else, even a single season of any anime won't fit on a single side blu-ray anymore, and disk space is stupid cheap, $200 reliably gets you 14TB of shucked drive storage.