why burn CD/DVD ?
 

a few weeks ago I was looking for an old movie (colorized King Kong) and all I caould find was a pal virsion iso. I hate these things cause I've never found a burning tool that works for shit.

but I fiigured for this I'll have another go. I got ImgBurn, read some of their guides and I thought I was on the right track, finally ! it seemed to work. I got a sucesfull message at the end. took out my disk and put it in the PS3 and my other stand alone Sony player...nada. that's when I noticed it was pal in my log file. figured I may need to convert first.

registerd on ImgBurn's forum to ask a few Q's...got no usefull answer. I asked, am I using the right guide for my task ? no reply to that particular question...I mean, write image file to disk, or write files to disk ? what disk, the HD or the DVD disk I put in the drive ? write image to disc ? image, meaning the group of files I want to burn to the DVD disk in my drive or what ?

then I wonderd if VLC would play it as it is, which it did just great. so...why burn it ?

why burn anything ? most MP3 players carry way more data then DVD's or CD's

I mean geez, I've owned 2 burners, 1st one died after like 5 discs and this one may work fine but I can't see any use for it. I can play vids directly out of my comp tot he TV and music out of the comp or the MP3 player. I can't imagine even using CD's in a car. I have some but I've only used them maybe 5-6 times in 4 years. I went from casettes to my MP3 player.

I know most if not all of you have burned 100's if not 1000's of CD's and DVD's but damn. I just don't get it.

what's my point ? or question ? I dunno. just kinda PO'd at burning processes. sort of a worthless rant.

I have a few reasons I burn files to DVDs.

1. Hard drives die. They just do. When they do, I want the data back. DVD's are a decent backup solution.

2. I have almost a Terabyte of storage space, and I still fill it. When I do, I take all the stuff I haven't watched in a while/played in a while/listened to in a while, and drop it on DVDs.

So there you go. It's not my highest priority, but there's plenty of good reasons to do it.

There really is no point anymore unless you have some kind of hardware device that only accepts discs. Just a legacy of the days when hard drives were expensive and you couldn't get digital HD output from your computer's video card. Hard drive space is so cheap even backup is best done to another hard drive. I also believe burned discs have a shorter lifespan than hard drives now, I've not had a hard drive fail in some 5 years but I have plenty of burned discs that my CD players won't read cleanly.

I've had some dvd's go bad...but not HD's yet. I have 500 internal, 1TB external and an 80gb external. I'll fill them for shure and man, there's no way I'd want to burn all that. I dunno, I'm just annoyed it's such a pita

I started a similar thread a week or two ago. I recently had the same revelation: unless you need CDs that you can play in the car, or DVDs to play in the DVD player, then there's really no reason to burn CDs or DVDs anymore.

well, I think I'm gonna buy some self enclosed laptop HD's for easy portability. but I still wish I gould get my hardware to do what it's suposed to do.

I burn movie DVD's that I can give to my kids without worrying about whether they will ruin the original DVD with scratches and whatnot.