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Raw CD-R and CR-RW's are actually still widely available for purchase. I wonder for how long though. Especially for CD-R that's an impressively long run of almo
by tpmx 4y ago
Raw CD-R and CR-RW's are actually still widely available for purchase. I wonder for how long though. Especially for CD-R that's an impressively long run of almost/about 30 years.
Bought a bunch of CD-R's recently to burn some retro apps/games to get that proper feeling (sound, latency).
- u801e 4y agoThey're still available, but I prefer getting writable discs with higher capacity, like DVD-R or BD-R. I still use my DVD-R as one of my offline backup methods (make an ISO, put a bunch of files and a sha256sum file on the disc).
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- NovaDudely 4y agoI still have a spindle of them kicking around mostly for legacy OS stuff like old PowerPC Mac installations. Some version of Open Firmware just do not play nice with USB's. The issue I have is think a lot of the discs I get are hyper aged and it is a flip of a coin if they actually work or not.
- tpmx 4y agoBuy some fresh ones while you can.
- NovaDudely 4y agoI will be honest I have kind of given up on trying to maintain a lot of these systems. Some I am still giving love but every year it gets a little harder, particularly with weird power supplies, dying capacitors and (now) odd ball storage systems. About 3 months ago I finally had to sacrifice a PowerMac G5 (Steve Jobs Folly as I called it), I kept the case and it is now a semi-sleeper PC but the original G5 board was dead as a dodo and not willing to go any further. The heat sinks on that thing was intense!
- gitfan86 4y agoThat is amazing since thumb drives are much cheaper by the MB and less prone to degredation
- tpmx 4y agoI'm guessing this product line is kept alive by outdated local government/municipality regulations or something along the lines of that. Oh, and owners of cars with CD players :). About now is probably the time to hoard.
- ClumsyPilot 4y agoI needed my x-ray form the hospital, they gave me a CD. It actually kind of makes sence - they aren't gonna keep stacks of USB drives,.
- userbinator 4y agoThe fact that it's WORM media also makes sense for medical images, where you really don't want them to be editable.
- cancerhacker 4y agoMy hospital distributed all my CT, PET and MRI imagery on DVD. When I had to travel cross country to a specialist, I'd ripped them all and brought a thumb drive - which the new hospital refused to deal with. I had to stay up all night burning a set of DVDs for them from the the iso images. (And even though I had them all available via dropbox - the hospital didn't allow access to the internet at large.)
- Uvix 4y agoSounds like the hospital had their infosec well in hand. That's rare.
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- jeron 4y agoSoon we will be able to recreate the entire feeling in VR, sound and latency included
- brudgers 4y agoAs best I can tell from my recent interest, Verbatim is the only CD-RW name brand in the US market. [0] It may be the old Mitsubishi formulation and reliable. But the brand has changed hands over the years. CD-R’s are more widely available. [0] I acquired a Roland device from 2001 that is particular about CD-RW’s. No name disc’s don’t work in it but they format fine with a new external DVD burner…hence the rabbit hole that led to this submission.
- dumbotron 4y agoWeren't CD+RWs considered the better format? Maybe this is just my experience with a first-gen xbox that makes me think this.
- joecool1029 4y agoMakes sense, I think Verbatim were also the last ones producing DVD-RAM. I still have a handful of their hardcoat ones, they are like using a big stable floppy disk, no need for any kind of burning software you can literally format them to any filesystem. CD-R's I bought a distributor case of Taiyo Yudens back in like the early-2000's, I have a few hundred left and use them in legacy stuff sometimes. They didn't get cd rot, all the CMC Magnetics CD-R disks (produced under many names) suffered cd rot within 10 years.
- NikolaNovak 4y agoI hope for a while yet. My car has a 6 cd changer :-D
- kristopolous 4y agoThere's car stereos for literally under $15 shipped these days. I'm not exactly recommending those models, but car stereos are generally quite affordable and easy to install. Something to consider
- Scoundreller 4y agoThey're usually garbage at that price point. The thing about a CD-changer though is that it usually guarantees that your existing system has a line-in for other devices. But sometimes the integration requires you to have a donor audio CD constantly playing even though you've spliced into the audio feed.
- adanto6840 4y agoDo many cars still have a single height "head-unit" space available in them these days? My wife's 2017 Hyundai doesn't. The last car I had that could accommodate a 3rd party head-unit install was a 2004 Subaru, and it required buying manuf. replacement bevel for where the OEM clock went IIRC. Maybe latest car stereos are just entirely headless?
- smackeyacky 4y agoCompanies like scosche make plastics to adapt some cars, most popular older cars with cd players or changers would be able to be upgraded to a mechless head unit without too much hassle.
- NikolaNovak 4y agoModern cars all seem to have integrated units. Even before but LCDs were the norm, so that's not a sole excuse :-/ (fyi it is my 2004 wrx that has a double din cd changer. I go car shopping every year or two, and I stick with my trusty Scooby every time :)