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Do you even use optical media anymore?

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Im sure im not with the majority here (since i dont have PS360), but its been a while since i used my Wii (and even so i have it modded to run backup copies), so im mostly gaming off Steam, PSN on my PSP and using cartridges on my DS.

Its been easily 6 months since i inserted a disc on my PC, probably more (closer to a year).

I dont even like optical media anymore. I recently used a backup DVD i made once to recover some data and it was awful. The noise, the load times, feels acient, reminds me of floppy disks.

Dont know, probably a big minority here, but i really have no use for DVDs or any kind of optical media anymore. I like retail, of course, i like a box, but if owned PS360, id probably mod it to play games from a hard drive too.
 
All the time. You can't beat the quality of uncompressed 1080p from Blu-Ray.

You think your cable company is giving you HD? They compress the shit out of all their channels so that they can cram more into the same bandwidth. Pop Avatar or LOTR into your Blu-Ray player and it's like cocaine for your eyeballs
 
For CDs and a few must own movies.

If they started selling all music in digital lossless I wouldn't need a disc drive.
 
Rarely, I haven't phased them out completely, but I'm getting there. Most PS3 games are disc-only and I watch the occasional Blu Ray or DVD, but as a PCbro, most of my games are digital.
 
B.K. said:
Yes. I will never go digital until I have no other choice.
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keep in mind that im not necesarelly talking about Digital Downloads alone, like i said i run my Wii games from a hard drive. I own them on disc, i just dont like using discs anymore.
 
For software, no. For music, no. For movies, rarely. For games, often.

I've become frustrated with the image quality of downloaded movies, though, so I'll probably jump on the Bluray bandwagon soon.
 
I primarily play on the 360, so yes, even if it's begrudgingly so at times and the disc is only really there to say "yep, he owns it" and then it runs off the HD.

Movie-wise, as the previous poster said, it's hard to top BluRay. It's uncompressed, and it's a hell of alot quicker for me to run to the Redbox 5 minutes down the road, grab whatever newest movie is out on BR, and throw it in the PS3 versus waiting for a 1080p/720p download that's worse in quality and generally costs more.
 
For console games and movies, yes.

However, I don't have a CD/DVD drive in my PC and I haven't since 2008! My PC will never have one again.

Oh, and no not for music since about 2004? Whenever I got my first MP3 player.
 
Of course. Consoles are less reliable than ever. I don't want to have to re-buy my entire software collection when a console inevitably craps out, and I don't trust the DD services like PSN or XBLA to remain years or decades from now, nevermind the licensing agreements they have with various publishers.
 
DarkUSS said:
On PC? Almost never.
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Same here.

There are some exceptions. The DRM on Magic the Gathering: Battlegrounds causes random hilarity and they no longer sell the digital version. So I still have to use the CD for that one.
 
It's very rare I put a CD into my PC these days, but I use them all the time for gaming. Hell, I still use cartridges from time to time (playing retro stuff.) It must be pretty annoying for anyone to game on consoles (legitimately, not through pirating) without the use of discs at the moment. Only a select few retail games end up on XBL and PSN (and usually their prices are much higher.) I don't think discs are going to go out of fashion any time soon.
 
Only on my PS3. 360 is for XBLA only. All my Wii games are on an external HDD and usually just played in Dolphin anyway.
 
Only because the disk is needed for verification on my 360. Otherwise I wouldn't use disks.

I love being able to play games without having to switch disks.
 
Yes. Games and blu-ray movies.

Music is all digital for me, though I did build up a decent sized collection prior to going digital.
 
Giolon said:
All the time. You can't beat the quality of uncompressed 1080p from Blu-Ray.

You think your cable company is giving you HD? They compress the shit out of all their channels so that they can cram more into the same bandwidth. Pop Avatar or LOTR into your Blu-Ray player and it's like cocaine for your eyeballs
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Eh, it's still compressed. Just done really well unlike what your streaming site or cable provider would do to conserve bandwidth.
I agree though, disk media ftw!
I even use it for my PC games, mostly cause I have 2Mb internet and I like having cases for my games. Then of course CD > MP3, etc..
 
Yes. I like owning things.
 
All the time.

When someone wants something it's nothing for me to burn off a DVD for them. Less than a dollar. But I give them a USB flash drive I'll probably never see it again. Screw that.
 
For PC stuff, no, not at all. I do get Blu-Rays from Netflix, though, and of course use the game discs for PS3/360. I use the aux jack in my car for the ipod, but if given the choice, I would use the CD player, which is broken at the moment.
 
coolcole93 said:
I only realised about a week ago that my DVD drive on my PC was broken. I haven't used it in like a year.
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I only use mine for ripping PS2 games and the occasional DVD. The only PC game I own on a disk that I've purchased recently is Starcraft 2 because I was at college at the time and the internet there is really slow.
 
Only when forced to for console games or for movies I own on Blu. Never on my PC. I would prefer that the next generation of consoles goes full DD for their releases, but I doubt the market will allow it yet.
 
I see someone decided to read OT today.

I use optical media for console games, and the odd time I watch a DVD. Everything else is either a cartridge, or digital download.
 
I use both, pc stuff is mostly downloads on steam or direct2drive, xbox stuff is on discs in boxes because I like it, and it's a ton cheaper then Games on Demand lol.
 
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