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Are optical burners going extinct?

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AndreRio

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Apple is not putting optical drives on their mac-mini anymore, and replacing them with digital downloads, usbkeys. Will the same thing happen to PCs?
 
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Extinct? Doubtful. Apple also puts displayport and firewire on all of their stuff, but they aren't universal
 
DVD's are just to cheap of a method of distribution to be done with. I can say that Blu Ray may be the last disc format to be mainstream, but that is some time from now.

Apple is not putting the disc drives in their laptops in order to make them thinner, not because they think optical drives are going away.
 
As long as the combination of OS installs being sold on CD/DVD combined with a lack of all systems having external solid-state readers standard, they will endure.
 
why?

not everyone wants to wait a few hours for a movie to download, or has a connection that streaming just wont be steady for 2 hours....
 
With the decrease in price of flash storage DVDs are nearly useless nowdays other than movie rental/buy but most people don't even buy physical media anymore let alone burn it.

It's kinda funny since I used to always have a "to burn" folder where I would stick archival stuff and when it would hit around 700MB (this is before DVDs were affordable) I would burn it. Not too long ago I ran into that folder and thought to myself "wow this is kinda pointless" while looking at my 4.5TB raid array and backup solution. :p For media transport I just use USB sticks, more green (reusable) and faster.

Only time I use DVD/CDs is to install an OS. Not all OSes have a way to install through USB and even the ones that do require work arounds, so sometimes it's just easy to download the ISO, burn it and install. Given lot of stuff is in VM now, I often don't even need to go as far as burning the ISO.
 
for sure disks are become less and less important for many, but also many people retails disks still work better as not alot of people have high speed inet, but those people also are not likely to buy a mac mini i presume.
 
AndreRio said:
tell me something. can you burn an iso file into an usb key?
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It's OS dependent. Most Linux distros have a USB key creator. I think there is a 3rd party way to do it for windows as well.

You can't just DD the ISO directly to a stick though, which is too bad. Also not all computers support booting from USB.
 
Optical burners will be around for awhile simply because inexpensive unmetered high speed broadband connections (100Mbit+) aren't available in most markets.
 
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Optical burners will be around for awhile simply because inexpensive unmetered high speed broadband connections (100Mbit+) aren't available in most markets.
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Only pay $45/month for FTTH but I still burn blu-rays regularly!;)
 
somms said:
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Only pay $45/month for FTTH but I still burn blu-rays regularly!;)
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You proved his point though. The image says you are in the 99th percentile. Which means that kind of connection is not available to most people in the US.

Honestly I think some kind of optical drive and media distribution will survive as long as physical distribution survives. You just can't get any cheaper than stamping discs for mass production.
 
somms said:
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Only pay $45/month for FTTH but I still burn blu-rays regularly!;)
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You are an exception rather than the norm. Most markets do not have ISP that offer residential symmetrical 100Mbit service. It appears you ran that speedtest from University of Utah's "Westnet" network, which would imply you might be in the dorms. Some of the outlying areas outside of Salt Lake City are lucky enough to have access to Utopia's FTTH deployment, but that isn't available in Salt Lake City due to regulatory interference from existing ISP.
 
somms said:
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Only pay $45/month for FTTH but I still burn blu-rays regularly!;)
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Where do you live in utah? I live in salt lake and the best that is available is comcast. (Maybe in certain parts you can get fiber but I have never seen it where I live in SLC and none of my friends who live in other parts of the city either) You can get comcasts 50mb and 105mb speeds but they are crazy expensive.
 
1010 said:
It appears you ran that speedtest from University of Utah's "Westnet" network, which would imply you might be in the dorms. Some of the outlying areas outside of Salt Lake City are lucky enough to have access to Utopia's FTTH deployment, but that isn't available in Salt Lake City due to regulatory interference from existing ISP.
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http://www.xmission.com/utopia#more

FWIW: Live in Centerville, UT and I used to suffer under Comcast slow speeds & much higher prices but w/Utopia Fiber to the home install into my house, I now have the symmetrical 100Mpbs for $45/month. But my point was that this hasn't slowed my habit of regularly burning blu-rays!;)
 
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