in other news....
JVC/Taiyo Yuden has announced that at the of this year they will no longer manufacture blank DVD media. They have tons on hand to sell off but there will be no more made, this rings the death knell of the format.
Everything is going to streaming but I for one don’t like the lack of a physical product and there are plenty of places where internet service can struggle with streaming speed.
I like physical copy. Networks and streaming are fine as long it works but in some places, especially where I work now way off the beaten path, bandwidth is a precious thing.
Probably be a while until the CD/DVD drives installed in computers goes the way of the floppy. I have an old Dell Inspiron desktop under my bookshelf and it doesn’t have a floppy drive, but has the pins for the ribbon cable on the M/B. Got a couple FDD’s in the drawer, but don’t miss them—1.44MB capacity? Well, I remember when that was the rule. Yuck. Heh!