Who still uses a DVD/CD Player?

[Ulenspiegel]

I still use optical drives for the same reasons Fishrrman described in his post.

 

[jerwin]

I import CDs into iTunes (lossless, of course). For movies-- nah, my mac doesn't play blurays. I do watch a lot of prime video and netflix on my imac.

The CD drive is noisy.

 

[jerwin]

But the DVD player is absolutely great for vintage DVD movies like:

Well, I'm not sure about Monty Python and the Holy Grail, but the Princess Bride is awesome in HD.

 

[Solomani]

Well, I'm not sure about Monty Python and the Holy Grail, but the Princess Bride is awesome in HD.

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Not only is it awesome on DVD! It's…….. inconceivable!

 

[Erehy Dobon]

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[whosthis]

Like many others here, my optical drive primarily used for ripping content, not for playback.

Because I mostly listen to classical music and opera, finding cheap physical media is quite easy (thank you Second Spin) and usually at a price that is less expensive than lossy digital tracks at the iTunes Music Store. There's always the library as well.

I only have a few Blu-ray discs but they can be ripped as well. Although forum policy forbids people from posting links to documents describing this process, a good search engine will guide one to tutorials on how to do this.

That's pretty much my use case, although I currently put all DVDs and BRs directly at the player connected to the TV.

Any recommendation for a drive that works well for you?

 

[HenryAZ]

My main use case is for reading CD's provided by my health care labs, pics of X-rays and MRIs.

 

[venom600]

I bought an internal Bluray burner for my old 17" Macbook Pro. When it died I took that out and got an external chassis for it. I think I've used it twice since then. I still buy and rent movies but it doesn't work with 4k movies anyway.

 

[saxman211]

I don't remember the last time I even touched a CD/DVD/BluRay. I've long since digitized all my physical media and am digital only now.

How did you do this? I've been wanting to digitize my physical collection for a very long time now.

 

[Banglazed]

I still use DVD drive for ripping, storing digital contents and burning data for storage as backups using DVD-RW discs.

 

[jerwin]

Recently, I've been taking advantage of a security hole in my bluray player to import all of my dsf music onto my mac.

 

[SuperCompu2]

In the next couple days, I will be burning 15-20 copies of a DVD containing converted 8mm film for older folks to have.

It will be the first time I've burned disks in probably a couple years, back when I was burning CDs for my old 2000-model year car with a bad cassette deck.