Are CD-ROMS an added bonus and not actual neccesary in todays

>>51491005
CD-ROMs are dirt cheap nowadays and you never know when you'll need one

Yes.

>>51491005
>>51491029

he has a point, they can be useful from time to time, but i havent acctualy used one (other than possibly three or so times) in the past two years. it depends on the user. they are cheap enough you might as well

>floppies are useless, you CDs
>CDs are useless, use HDDS/USB sticks
>HDDs are useless, use teh cloud

I don't know but I don't pay for games that don't come on physical media.

>>51491110
this will happen at some point
want new drivers? show ID and matching photo sent from your mobile

Physical media gives me the illusion that I am buying a product instead of a service or license to operate, and that comforts me.

>>51491135
You could also just buy drm free exclusively

CD-drives are a waste of money.

I took my DVD rom drive out of my machine when I upgraded it because I was tired of it spinning up on startup, and I rarely use it. I bought a usb DVD drive for 15 quid and it works great, even to boot from, and sits in a drawer when it's not being used. I do not miss it one bit and I haven't used the usb drive for about two or three months.

I bought an LG bluray reader for $35. I rip and encode a lot of bluray movies so I use mine all the time. Was thinking of buying a drive that can wrote too. Make a bluray backup of all my stuff.

>>51492900
What programs do you use to rip off blu-ray movies? Any recommendation on program to write also? Was thinking of doing just this but I don't know if I'll have to use some paid programs or if there are freeware I can use.

>>51493071
I use MakeMKV to rip from. It is freeware. 30 day trial, then lets you continue using it for maybe another month or so during which you get a warning every time you go to use it.

Then you pay for it. $50. Devs started acxepting PayPal to get a copy so I didnt mind buying it

There are copies available if you wish to find a "borrowed" copy from torrents. I then use handbrake to encode as whatever file type you wish. I keep it as .mkv even after encoding. It nust shrinks a eaw bluray rip from 55gb to around 11gb.
As for write, i dont know. Will have to hunt around.

>>51491160
Nice b8, except I can still buy floppies and CDs without showing my ID so I can only give you 3/10.