It's been so long since I have pushed out a DVD and I'd already been pondering removing it. It was only by chance that I needed to burn some audio to CDs for a mate of mine who didn't have the ability to play mp3 files in his car.

What really spoke to me was the quality and availability of CD blanks. Verbatim (normally bullet proof) was the only band available at my preferred store and out of the spindle of 50 only a bit over half were so much as being recognised by my drive as writeable disc blanks. I thought the issue was with my equipment until it was repeated on another computer.

I'm guessing they're just pumping them through as they wring the last bit of value out of the factory. QA be damned.

It's such an online non-physical media world now.

Andrew

It's been a good 10 years since I burned a disk. My daughter has given me some hard-to-find DVD's of things like live concerts as gifts from time to time and I use my old USB DVD drive to rip those to my media server, but that's about it. Have not touched a music CD in something like 15 years, maybe more. I acquired a large DVD collection when I moved to my rural home with no cable and only a couple broadcast stations. I ripped all of them to the media server over a period of a couple years (around 1200 of them!).

This has come up a few times here with people saying that brides and grooms still want DVD's. Fortunately, I don't have to deal with that. Good riddance to physical media, I certainly don't miss it! ;-)