I need to find an adapter for this stupid HD-DVD drive from 2008. Sorry, this is before my time.

  • fizzle@quokk.au
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    6 hours ago

    Unrelated but… having lived through the 00’s I always found writable CDs and DVDs to be such a shit unreliable tech. It always seemed like discs might work ok with some drives but not others, or just stop working after a few weeks, and they really didn’t seem tolerant to even minor scratches. Just awful.

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      6 hours ago

      I have hundreds of burned discs that work fine. If you bought cheap discs you got what you paid for.

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        5 hours ago

        I have hundreds of burned discs that work fine.

        I’ve heard this a million times.

        I certainly never bought the cheapest discs. It’s been a decade but I think it was verbatim usually.

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      6 hours ago

      I really only burned Audio CD’s and DVD-Video movies. I haven’t had any issues. All the ones I’ve burned still work. Data DVD’s, less reliable. I have lost data on those. I burn Blu-ray movies now. I don’t think they’ll last long.