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optical drives dying?
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I dont see optical media down-for-the-count just yet. While USB flash drives are generally bigger the a DVD at 4.7 gigs, blu-ray has specs for up to 200 gig per disk.
For taking music, porn or whatever over to your buds house a flash drive is often easier and smaller. For distributing movies, music, games and other software, disks are cheaper then flash memory and while I see digital downloads expanding more and more I think it will be quite some time before the optical disk is DOA.
I for one dont think I would be happy with a digital download of windows -- though I have made it work with linux (by using disk or flash drive).
My thoughts anyways -- Anyone think optical is dead and just not buried yet? I am interested to hear the counter arguments!
For taking music, porn or whatever over to your buds house a flash drive is often easier and smaller. For distributing movies, music, games and other software, disks are cheaper then flash memory and while I see digital downloads expanding more and more I think it will be quite some time before the optical disk is DOA.
I for one dont think I would be happy with a digital download of windows -- though I have made it work with linux (by using disk or flash drive).
My thoughts anyways -- Anyone think optical is dead and just not buried yet? I am interested to hear the counter arguments!
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I dont see optical media down-for-the-count just yet. While USB flash drives are generally bigger the a DVD at 4.7 gigs, blu-ray has specs for up to 200 gig per disk.
For taking music, porn or whatever over to your buds house a flash drive is often easier and smaller. For distributing movies, music, games and other software, disks are cheaper then flash memory and while I see digital downloads expanding more and more I think it will be quite some time before the optical disk is DOA.
I for one dont think I would be happy with a digital download of windows -- though I have made it work with linux (by using disk or flash drive). slower speeds and possible damage/scratches from the DVD make me an unhappy camper, along with the noise that comes along with it
My thoughts anyways -- Anyone think optical is dead and just not buried yet? I am interested to hear the counter arguments!
for me, i haven't touched an optical media in about 2 years. all OS installs via USB(windows 7/08R2/ubuntu-linux). Applications are saved ISO (or zipped) on my backup HDD. Steam games - download (or backedup on my HDD)
It's just too difficult to "care" for a DVD in my bag vs a flashdrive that I can toss anywhere.
It certainly is the end of it for me. my kindle/future laptops/netbooks won't include it....
I don't see Bluray having enough penetration to be useful (eg I can't burn a 40GB file via bluray to give to my friend b/c he doesn't have a bluray drive. nor do I, nor the need to transfer a 40GB file) most likely will do this via hard drives(big files) or sharing on the internet/USB(small files)