• sylver_dragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    15 hours ago

    It’s amazing to see optical media dying out to such a high degree. I was so excited when we got a CD-ROM drive in our home computer, when I was a kid. It opened up a lot of options for new games. Now, I have a collection of games on CD/DVD in a box, in the basement, which hasn’t been opened in a decade, maybe two.

    • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      15 hours ago

      Yes, when CD and later DVD came out, they were truly groundbreaking. A huge step forward compared to anything that went before.
      Both in music/video and as a computer storage media. That kind of exciting progress is rare in any field. I think the only equivalent with broad impact since then is the smartphone.

  • Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
    5·
    13 hours ago

    This is more software news, but still a (nerdy) historical milestone of sorts.

    I do hope it will be easy to enable CD/DVD/BD writing support if needed.

    EDIT: I was mistaken, opticla disc writing is not being removed, just one specific (and somewhat niche?) technology/approach.