There was a time when the CD was the saving grace of the computer and media world. No longer would it take 22 floppy disks to install Windows 95. Oh no, just one magical disk. But as everything digital, things change overtime, and so optical formats are now loathe as the bastard child you wouldn’t dare get rid of, but can’t stand the sight of him nor his loser friends.
LaserDisc – Back in the day of Smurfs and hairy rock, I played Dragons Lair on LaserDisc but still watch Jaws on good ‘ol VHS. I think a garage sale ate my Pioneer deck.
CDs – Oh, how I love thee. You held my GnR albums all through high school and when I started to try to run with you I learned you skip like a Boy Scout.
Minidisc – I once knew a guy that had a MiniDisc headunit installed in his Buick Riviera. He was a douche.
SACD – Thanks to a smooth-sounding Eagles album, I could sell you like a corner whore but wouldn’t let you on my equipment rack.
DVD Audio – “SACD is doing so well, there must be a market for a second high-quality media format,” said a now unemployed suit.
DVD – The Matrix was amazing, LOTR was great, but yeah, who buys DVDs anymore?
UMD – ROFL
CBHD – Just a cheap Chinese HD knock-off. It will break in a few months and will probably poison your kid if he licks it.
HD DVD – Oh how I worked for you. I preached your gospel upon high, but now you’re lying on the ground next to me and all I’m left with is this Dixie cup of Kool-aid.
Blu-ray – What do you want from me? You won; I know. I still loathe Sony and your incomplete format.
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I was unaware that Boy Scouts skipped. Additionally, that SACD part was dumb and I liked mini discs. Also, see:loathe.
Which moving parts are still used in a computer by the average user? (Not talking servers here)
1. Hard drives – slowly being replaced by SSD’s
2. Optical drives
3. Cooling – doesn’t even count entirely because you can build a system without active cooling
The second one, optical drives, are the only one left. In your home theaters, it’s also the only one with moving parts.
There are two alternatives – stream everything from the internet or use SSD’s like a flash drive.
At some point, we’ll see a move away from optical discs. With cable providers placing digital tuners in users’ homes, that’s just one more way to distribute content over wire.
Sony’s recent win is great and it will do well long enough for them to recoup the money it took to win the format war, but the real future will be when we don’t have any optical drives at all.
I actually find discs quite convenient. Mostly because of let’s me borrow movies from friends and lend them to others. Also, I don’t have to worry about disk space on my computer being sucked up by movies I won’t watch for another year or so… but still want to have.
Discs become a headache if you have OCD (like, you know, ME! let’s say 1000 discs) or you are TRON.
How do you keep them all sorted out? 1TB runs for $149, which means that (Urgh… MATH!) 1CD = 0.68 GB… 1TB = 1024GB, so i will have enough space to maybe more than 1500 CD’s…
Now… Let’s just say that each CD was 21 cents each, so i already spent more on CD’s than in storage… (And we all know it’s not true… How much do all your OSes for all your PC’s cost?)
We all know what happens when you put all your eggs in the one basket! So we RAID… The price is wrong… (But I think yOu know the rest, donTCHa?)
Nope… I find convenient to have the ISO on my PC to play the games, I find convenient to have my CD music (not the same as the downloaded/bought with pc) on mp3s so i don’t have to search through housands of casings just to hear one song… But once you find CD or DVD media that won’t degrade so easily with proper use… It’s still cheaper.
Plus… More than half of them are DVD’s… so 1TB maybe is not enough… Is my math right? Did I slip somewhere?
Where’s holographic storage, dude?
What smooth sounding Eagles album was on SACD?