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[Princess Auto] External CD/DVD writer - $12.49

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Mar 16th, 2025 8:08 pm#81
Kiraly
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MaGeol wrote: ↑
That's awesome. I remember 3.5 and 5.25.
3.5" floppies live on in the Save icons of all sorts of different software. I
wonder if people too young to remember floppy disks even know what that icon is.
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Mar 16th, 2025 8:11 pm#82

apvm
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I have a PC bluray wirter that can write CD/DVD as well but I haven't use it for a
while (few years) now and is selling CD/DVD to local 2nd hand store (very cheap)
after I copied the movie ISO and transfered it to a MKV file for Plex.
My Heatware
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Mar 16th, 2025 8:27 pm#83
l1197493
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tew wrote: ↑
I paid $20 for that same one about 10 years ago,

Lots of full size DVD players, VCRs and old square VGA monitors at VV. The small
portable ones like yours were not really all that popular so I'm surprised you
found one and you're not likely to ever see another one. I'm the only person I know
out of all my family and friends that ever owned one.
Haha maybe I got lucky, I didn't know it was so rare but good to have in case you
ever find a disk with data and need to see what is on the disk since nothing I own
has a drive now.

Yeah they have cool old stuff, I found a couple of guitars but I'll usually only
look at the stuff that have a box and looked unused since it's hard to fully test
some things there
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Mar 16th, 2025 8:42 pm#84
tomadams
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There is a use for these. If you have a Mac that came with a DVD drive (which is
now likely broken) the only way to reinstall the OS or bootcamp is with a DVD drive
because it blocks you from doing it with a USB stick if the computer originally
shipped with a built in dvd drive. Granted that would be a very old computer but I
still have a 2010 Mac mini and a 2010 iMac that both work but neither DVD drive has
worked in years. They would make decent windows machines for stand alone purposes
but I can't install bootcamp with a broken DVD drive. Its a niche but its
something!
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Mar 16th, 2025 9:21 pm#85
eljay0
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tew wrote: ↑
I paid $20 for that same one about 10 years ago,

Lots of full size DVD players, VCRs and old square VGA monitors at VV. The small
portable ones like yours were not really all that popular so I'm surprised you
found one and you're not likely to ever see another one. I'm the only person I know
out of all my family and friends that ever owned one.
Thanks for reminding me that I want to make a digital copy of my prom's VHS tape! I
gotta go get one of those VCRs and some cables.
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Mar 16th, 2025 10:24 pm#86
zetx
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Here’s to my fellow millennials, who spent endless nights chasing the perfect 18
songs, weaving them into a soundtrack of our lives, and sealing it all into a CD,
like a timeless treasure in a world that moved too fast.
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Mar 16th, 2025 11:21 pm#87
ignite128
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this thread is as cringe as you'd expect.
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Mar 16th, 2025 11:46 pm#88
DougO
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ignite128 wrote: ↑
this thread is as cringe as you'd expect.
Why? Because we're old? Happens to us all eventually....
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Mar 16th, 2025 11:47 pm#89
stingyshopper
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tomadams wrote: ↑
There is a use for these. If you have a Mac that came with a DVD drive (which is
now likely broken) the only way to reinstall the OS or bootcamp is with a DVD drive
because it blocks you from doing it with a USB stick if the computer originally
shipped with a built in dvd drive. Granted that would be a very old computer but I
still have a 2010 Mac mini and a 2010 iMac that both work but neither DVD drive has
worked in years. They would make decent windows machines for stand alone purposes
but I can't install bootcamp with a broken DVD drive. Its a niche but its
something!
You can boot from a properly formatted USB thumb drive the trick is it has to be a
older USB 2.0 thumb drive if you try to do it with a newer 3.x drive it won't boot.
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Mar 16th, 2025 11:59 pm#90
DougO
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tew wrote: ↑
Not sure why DVDs are unusable already, they are rate for 50-100 years. Maybe an
off brand or you used rewriteable discs which don't last as long, maybe they are
burned CDs which are only rate for 5-10 years or could be in unfavorable storage
conditions.

Why maintain an old computer just convert the files and burn a new disc with the
newly converted files.
Burned discs that have lasted the longest include gold CDs, burned in the old days
of bulletin boards, Verbatim AZO dye DVDs, Sony CDs and DVDs, Maxell DVDs, DVD RAM
discs. Worst? Anything made by CMC Magnetics who used to skimp on the amount and
type of dye. Many of the discs I burned in my Panasonic DVD recorder from 2003 on
out are as transparent as a pane of glass...even if stored in binders or spools and
not exposed to sunlight.

But I was reading that some Blu Ray and UHD discs won't play either. These are
newer discs and should be fine. These are also pressed, so they should work in all
players but they don't. Very few home players are left and Sony has exited the
market as of the end of 2024. Other than Panasonic there are few players anymore.
Computer disc burners are also getting hard to come by. In another 5 years, optical
media players and burners will probably not be made anymore...

The old computer is needed to read the discs or files which use software that is
not available anymore or was not updated for use in modern computers. My Kodak
software is the only one that will read the FPX file system, used in digital
cameras of the time. I shot a lot of pix with my camera and only some of the files
were recoverable, even with that software. The flash memory the cameras used
deteriorated over the past 20+ years to the point that many of them cannot be read.
I was lucky to get what I had.

But I went through some of the videos I had captured to disc from several years
back from my video collection. The ones of most interest were the interview ones or
histories of anime, manga and live action Japanese shows. Most of those were one of
a kind. The material was broadcast, then scrapped. The original tapes they came
from have deteriorated and so can no longer be read. The discs might also
deteriorate in the future. This is why I have backed them up and given them to
archivists. At least, those will be saved somewhere, even if they never get
subtitled...
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Mar 17th, 2025 12:49 am#91
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Mar 17th, 2025 12:56 am#92
Thrasher
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These CD/DVD/BD wallets are great for storage of your optical media.
https://www.blankmedia.ca/shop/blank-me ... h-sleeves/
I used to order from this company in the past. Not sure how they are still in
business. They charge a lot for shipping but you can pick up for free in Dundas,
apparently.
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Mar 17th, 2025 1:57 am#93
learsid
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Jan 2, 2011
605 posts
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I remember going to Future Shop and having them install my first CD Burner. Those
original CD Burners often made mistakes and you'd be left with a bunch of failed
CD's we called coasters. CDs were like $2 a piece so not cheap.

CDs first had normal thick cases... then thin cases... then you buy spindles with
no cases and put them in folded paper.

Nothing beats the nostalgia of Napster, burning your CDs for your friends and
drawing on the label.

You were extra cool if you had a CD changer in your car with a remote to control
the volume/skip songs with the other hand on the wheel... "to look cool"

Those were good days.

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Mar 17th, 2025 2:47 am#94
EndlessBlue
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Man this thread is causing me nostalgia eruption
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Mar 17th, 2025 2:49 am#95
razrsharp
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Just bought a late 90s Trans Am to dip my feet into muscle/classic cars, gonna use
this for the CD player. Time to relive one of the best decades a little Smiling
Face With Open Mouth And Tightly-closed Eyes. Thanks OP.
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Mar 17th, 2025 3:28 am#96
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Does one need to use both the included USB cables to operate this device?
In fact in Rand McNally they wear hats on their feet and hamburgers eat people
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Mar 17th, 2025 8:46 am#97
Dealdo83
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Anywhere I can find a cheaper DVD? This post brings back nostalgic memories—I'd
love to give it a try!
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Mar 17th, 2025 9:03 am#98
CaptainBargain
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That's a great find! It's not often that I need a cd/dvd write but when I need it,
I realize that modern computers don't have these drives anymore.
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Mar 17th, 2025 9:17 am#99
09halu
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remember the days, use cd/dvd driver to burn iso of windows xp,vista,7 to cd/dvd. I
still have windows xp sp3 cd, windows 7 sp1 home premium dvd :P until the usb took
over...
nothing in 2 stores of calgary
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Mar 17th, 2025 9:36 am#100
Solozero
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Handy to have, thanks OP!
Good Deal Sacry-Blu!
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