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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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i FUCKING love optical media

„Optical media bad”

Oh yeah Mr. John Bringus? Fuck off! DVD-RAM fucking ROCKS and you can take your doodoo ass away JACKASS B))))

like look at these goofy goobers

mainly perfect for using music bought off bandcamp, shit rocks, cant wait to stick 'em in my cars stereo and make em :rotato-chip:

inb4 oh yeah zoomie, you never had to deal with bad writes :smuglord:

Sorry grandpa but Poland was technologically like 10 years behind the west in the 2000s. CD-Rs were my childhood maaaaaaan, and pirated DVD movies toooooo

I consider Blu-Ray new technology, and that shit came out in like 2006

Also Verbatim has some really cool stuff on their website it's really cool

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

OH MY FUCKING GOD LOOK AT THIS

THIS IS SO FUCKING CUTE AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

This is cool lmao. They should do BluRay versions

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Never seen those, fuck do they ever go hard. Just need a DVD player with a transparent top to watch it niko-speen

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I had those in like 2004. They were really cool.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

WHAT DO YOU MEAN THEY EXISTED MY ENTIRE FUCKING LIFE AND I NEVER KNEW?????????

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah. They were probably in electronics stores at the time.
I remember my friend's band back then released demos on mini cds like this:

I thought they were so cool!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I had one Mini CD that was sold with Piccolo, which is like kids „champagne”, and that was loaded with games and demos. I loved that little thing, and I think I still should have it somewhere.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Nice. I think I had a Pokemon one with clips from one of the movies on it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

I only watch bootleg VCD

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Rectangle digimon movie disc i could never use cos our disc drive didn't like it. Only time I've ever seen such a shape used

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Have you seen the Diddy Kong Racing soundtrack CD?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

we had these a long time ago, I remember my mom bought some and super-glued cork to the bottom to use them as coasters

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

I bought an mp3-CD audiobook so that I wouldn't have to deal with not really owning the DRM-infested download version (and uncertainty as to whether the state of the DRM arms race [and my limited technical skills] will allow me to liberate it before my purchase is clawed back [and no, I can't find it on the high seas or the library system]), but the CD-RW drive in my ancient laptop only seems to be able to read raw audio CDs correctly, it won't see data CDs. harold-manic

Does any maker of external optical readers have a particular reputation for compatibility and reliability?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Oh and BTW I think Verbatim has ok drives for a good price, I've snatched a BD burner recently for 200zł B))))

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

but the CD-RW drive in my ancient laptop only seems to be able to read raw audio CDs correctly, it won’t see data CDs.

What the fuck? This must be a driver issue, it HAS to be able to read data CDs, there is no other way.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

It mistakes them for blank CD-RWs and wont proceed without trying to format them

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Might be that your drive is broken... Well an external Verbatim drive should be fine if you're looking for a new one I guess.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yooooo I used to buy these all the time for my playlists

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Yeah I'm gonna get some someday, they're 20zł for 10 discs. Which is, ehhhh okay I guess.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I recently bought a bulk pack of these Verbatim "Vinyl" CD-Rs identical to the ones you post here. Can confirm they're great, I overburned all 82:21 or whatever of Quadrophenia onto one, they're solid. Better than the dollar store Verbatim discs I used to get, I think.

I'm partial to cassettes for physical Bandcamp copies cuz I'm a freak, but I like me an optical media now and then. Never let fucking NERDS take optical media from us or imply it's bad!!!

bullying zoomers

One of those things that turns me into an awful bitter reactionary is the "disc rot" meme going round. Can happen to recordable media, but if it's pressed only 80s Laserdiscs rot... and yet FUCKING KIDS grillman

run around acting like Blurays or PC games from the 00s will rot. Fuck off my optical media, that shit fucks.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Disc rot is genuinely spreading FUD.

"Oh a CD-R will last max 5 years!!!!"

And I'm like, lol wut

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I remember back in the day people were obsessed about which verbatim factory their CD-Rs came from.