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Originally Posted by Lisa007lk
LORD SMURF commented “who’s burning CDs anymore anyway?’ & I wanted to come here to tell him that my husband burns concerts by the dozen (mostly of bootleg concerts of the band YES & any bands any of the members may have played in.
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Interesting!
I've not been to a live event for several years now. I'm not sure if I should be surprised by this. Let me share my experiences here...
By the early 2010s (when I was in Nashville), there was already a push to get folks to buy songs from iTunes and
Amazon. Most indy artists had given up trying to sell discs. Online gave less, but also took less effort, less upfront costs involved. Most actually had pressed discs in cases, not CD-R. And usually with some sort of artwork (usually professional, even if just cards from Vistaprint).
Back in the 90s, I saw CD-R often. But by even the 20s, even my cheapskate friends were getting presses in plain slim cases.
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in the last 5 has come across sites with massive amounts of concerts available to anyone to copy. Well they have taken over my 3T external HD upstairs & I’ve been bugging him to do something with them to free up some room!
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Data hoarders. Few ever enjoy all the crap they collect. I almost feel into that bad habit in the 2000s, but learned to limit myself only to that which I will definitely use or enjoy. There is some value to data hoarding, but not as much with video (TV, movies) and audio (music, podcasts, etc). You have to be selective. The opposite of hoarder is a connoisseur. I'd rather be the latter, or somewhere in the middle.
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Plus after he creates a CD & artwork,
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This is becoming a lost art. I was quite good at it.
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we like to hold the discs in our hands & read the accompanying paperwork/covers.
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No disagreement here.
I'm not that into artwork, aside from things I really like. Mostly toons, shows like Smurfs. The trivia does it for me.
And maybe not discs, but at least local files. I don't trust "the cloud" (internet) to maintain copies available. We've already seen how stuff can disappear on a whim.
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I have made thousands of dvds of favorite movies, TV shows, commercials & concerts on a machine that I was made aware of by a fellow soap opera fan.
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How long have you done this? We may have common friends. If you were not aware, I started into video as pure hobby, toons and TV. Pro came much later, what I refer to as my accidental career.
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After getting a SONY DVD Recorder, I quickly hated the fact I could not edit & was introduced to a Pioneer model that had frame by frame editing. I Loved it but have abused it (& subsequent ones of same model i bought off EBay, swearing i won’t fill it but I always do!) I’m trying to clear my 4th now.
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Eh. Not the best.
Pioneer depended on model. Some decent, some suck.
Don't use those nasty 6-hour modes. (Those traders and collectors were infamous, and would be banned from the better places. Not helpful to provide crap quality to groups.)
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Anyway, thnx for schooling me about AZO
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You'll essentially never go wrong using Verbatim AZO media, or Taiyo Yuden media. Legit, not fake stuff. Noting that fake discs have mostly disappeared, zero money in it anymore.
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but i think many of my disc problems (besides scratches & age just laying about in my living room) is problems w/the machine…not recognizing what’s on the DVD & thinking it’s blank.
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Could be. Lots of possible issue. DVD lasers have a finite life, often just 2-5 years before weakening and failing. So who cases if DVDs "only" last 100 years, or even 50, or even 25. Will we still have players? You may be shocked when that future date arrives. So many DVDs, so little to see them. I think DVD players are now like VCRs, no longer made. It's just BD players now, and those never really caught on. Netflix, Disney+, etc. Or DLNA with Kodi boxes. Disc-free days are upon us. I ripped every one of my DVDs to ISO, and backed those up as well. I now mostly just view files on LAN, when not streaming.
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(Otherwise i have 59 of 100 DVDs now blank…
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Only 59?
(I have at least 10x that right now, maybe 20x or 30x. Don't use these much anymore.)
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sorry for the lengthy post!
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I always enjoy meeting a fellow TV collector, especially DVDs.
I need to move this threadjack to its own post, not really on-topic to our banned "fungus" friend.