@benjojo No option for 4K Blu-ray/BD-XL 😢 .

@benjojo I’ve listened to a cd on my car stereo within the last five years. Does my car count as a computer?

@benjojo @stuvx oh damn, didn't think about this 😅

@benjojo little another question, what is this for a survey software or has you the created ?

@benjojo what are you using the data for?

@benjojo I'- curious whether I should classify an old laptop sitting in a drawer somewhere as "an external reader", or "my computer has built in read hardware" ^^

@benjojo Okay, makes sense (probably the former, just for the challenge ^^)

@benjojo when asking about hardware, do you care whether someone’s primary machine has a optical disc player/recorder or if someone had an old computer they could use if needed?

@benjojo can you make an inferred gender graph from the answers pls?

@benjojo ripping game ISOs is "Data DVD" yeah? asking for a friend of course.

@benjojo I see you only asked about data and audio CDs, and didn't ask about VCDs, video CD, which was video storage I used and burned more than DVDs

I've found many people forgot about VCDs

@benjojo from whom do I still get data CDs/DVDs? From old people (older than my 57).

Who do you still give data DVDs/CDs to? My dentist I give CDs with pictures (to be displayed in his practice), because the cloud does not exist and USB sticks are dangerous.

@wtremmel @benjojo on the other hand, small USB sticks are ridiculously cheap. I already got some "throw away 1 way USB sticks" where in the past they would have burned a disk.

@benjojo I was answered yes to the questions and thinking "this is going to be very misleading", and finally got to say "but not for over 10 years".

@benjojo still a huge fan of optical media! It's my preferred way to buy audio and visual content!

@benjojo one slight remark, don't layout your "SUCCESS" Screen like a nginx error page 🤣 got me confused for a second

@benjojo some radio buttons should be checkboxes really

e.g. it's possible to have a computer with builtin cd/dvd drive *and* another computer with external cd/dvd drive

had to pick one when I could have checked both

@benjojo Sony Mavica, the dslr model that uses mini CD-r disks to shoot pictures. Also DVD camcorders are fun.
But also, if i'm not playing cassettes or records i'm playing CDs. Blu-ray is past my time of tech interest.

@benjojo I've stopped having computers with any drive to read or write them so many years ago.

I figure I've balanced enough with the amount of copies I did in my teenage years 😶‍🌫️

Good study 💪

@vascorsd @benjojo
Same here, sad to stop using those, specially Data DVDs.
I always wanted to burn a Blu-ray disc and never had the opportunity.

@Andres @benjojo also I've never met anyone who owned a bluray player or a bluray burner. At most people I know have it on their playstations.

@vascorsd @benjojo
I had a Bluray reader on my PC, but a dodgy cable started a literal fire and burned it. Luckily nothing else got damaged.

@benjojo
Never thought about it much, I've burned audio/video onto cds and dvds, but never on blu-ray. Always burned blu-ray for data only.

@benjojo There should be a difference between the "I technically have an old laptop with a CD/DVD drive in a drawer somewhere and could take it out if need be" option and "the computer I'm using daily has a drive" option.

@benjojo used BD for backups. Burned them but didn't really read.
Inserted few games in ps4 tho.
So I voted less than 30 days for both.

I am curious to know the results 😋

@benjojo I feel like quite the boomer with my extensive use of CDs and DVDs but utter lack of BlueRay usage

@benjojo great survey! :D

@benjojo I want to, but every pack of writable optical media I've purchased and tried burning in the past decade has had like 75% or worse failure rate (unable to read it back). It's like everyone is selling old stock that rotted in hot warehouses decades ago or something...

@benjojo So much cool optical media really isn't surpassed by "newer" things. I recently made someone some M-Discs of their data before they moved overseas... There's really not an alternative for long-term offline backup for consumers.

@benjojo my truck has a CD player (and cassette), that are used weekly.

@benjojo do another one with floppies, 3.5 and 5.25 and 8, it might get even more interesting :-)

@benjojo I still watch DVD's on our Samsung player, I have a lot of them. I haven't seen discs for sale in quite a while. I used Nero and ConvertXtoDVD when I burned discs and got great results from them.

@benjojo shit, I just missed to fill in my age. I hope the default 25 is just an example and not actually what gets put in the results. 😅

Doing the survey on phone made a lot of things hard to see/read.

@benjojo lol actually burning a DVD video disc at this moment 😆

@benjojo I have a DVD burner, but i's switched off more then 10 yeas, i guess, and just close hole in front panel ;-)

@benjojo

You could also have an option for "i tried to rip a CD/DVD/Blueray but wasn't able to"

@benjojo
Done! The mention of CD/DVD disk (compact disc disk, digital versatile disc disk) is weird : )

@benjojo
Technically, I have got a DVD drive on my laptop, but it is out of order

@benjojo
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> Do/Have you used a CD/DVD/Bluray in a while?

FWIW I have bought a computer with a DVD reader installed just a few months ago. 🙂

Bye!
C.

@benjojo thanks for this survey, I'm curious about the results!

I grew up with CDs and a huge DVD collection, but then I switched to Spotify and streaming...

With changes such as Netflix locking accounts to one household (all our video streaming platforms were shared from friends or family) we started to go back to alternative means of getting our movies and tv shows

And last January we decided to drop Spotify, which was a huge change when you've used it exclusively for the past 10-15 years... I had to buy an external CD reader, find a good ripper and tagger for Linux, and we started to digitalize our collection. We've also been enjoying our library's huge CD collection!

@benjojo I've seen how-to informative posts for younger audiences about how to leave Spotify, how to rip CDs, how it's legal in most countries, etc! So hopefully some people will go back to that, but it's hard to say.

I've also heard that for some hardcore music fans, they still buy a lot of CDs because they know that pre-sales are good for artists.

Side note, but I was surprised to discover how using Spotify had trained my mind, in the way that I would regularly subconsciously decide to listen to a particular song or artist to show my support / increase their numbers. Now that me listening or not to a song on repeat has zero effect on anything it feels so different... That was scary to realize. Also rediscovering the joy of listened to albums from beginning to end, which I had completely stopped doing on Spotify!

@benjojo
I still use blueray and M-disc (not many blanks left, sadly) for burn and forget it backups. I don't really want to be babysitting a NAS or RAID at home. And I'm not a big fan of "the cloud". Yes I'm old lol

Also the radio in my car plays MP3 CD's so burn a bunch of CD's or a podcast to a cheap CDR and use that as disposable storage.

I also have more DVD movies then I can watch in a lifetime from friends giving away their collections or stuff I got at flea markets.
💿

@benjojo Thank you for not making this a Google Form!

@benjojo in the ‘hardware’ question I missed the option “I have a CD (/dvd) player”

@benjojo Some weeks ago I bought CD-Rs in a grocery shop nearby... and I felt like a fossil. I asked the cashier, how often they're sold...

Well. I didn't realize how young she was. Her answer: "Uh, dunno. What is that?" 😁

@benjojo As someone who once accidentally deleted my entire digital music library and lost some items that were digital-only and no longer available, I buy physical media whenever I can.

@benjojo I didn't know you could buy burnable Blu-ray disks & drives for them! I thought only big media companies were allowed to do that.

@benjojo skewing the answers by owning laserdiscs

@benjojo while I may have once or twice *tried* to burn a bluray I could never make it bloody work.

@benjojo

Interesting questions. Any way to get added to a list to be notified of your results?