Re: Recommendations for external DVD-ROM drive?

"Mark Fishman [email protected] [EAC]" <[email protected]> Wed, 7 Oct 2020 16:38:29 -0400
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My car doesn't play Blu-Ray discs. My television plays MP4 files from USB
sticks. I do computer backups to multiple hard drives, each of which has
far more space than a Blu-Ray disc. Audio is still CDs, except when it's in
computer files (see previous sentence).

Remind me again why I need a computer Blu-Ray drive. -- m.

On Wed, Oct 7, 2020 at 3:46 PM Mike Brown [email protected] [EAC] <
[email protected]> wrote:

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> On Wed, Oct 07, 2020 at 11:49:15AM +0200, [email protected] [EAC] wrote:
> > My old LG finally called it quits so I'm in the market for a new
> > external DVD-ROM drive. Requirements:
> [ ... stuff snipped ... ]
> DVD? Really? How about joining the 21st century and getting a Blu-ray
> drive? You can get a lot more data on a 25GB BD disc. BD discs are very
> cheap. You'll pay less for one BD disc than the number of DVDs to store
> the same amount of data.
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>
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