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On Fri, 26 Jun 2015 18:18:45 -0400 |
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gottlieb@×××.edu wrote: |
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> My new (dell E7450) laptop will be a slimline with no internal optical |
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> drive. So I want to purchase an external optical drive. My first |
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> thought was to get a drive that is both |
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> a blue ray READER and |
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> a dvd writer |
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> I naively thought that USB is USB so any such drive would work. |
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> However googling (especially linux sites) shows pages devoted to DRM |
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> issues. Although I do not intend to rip or write a blu-ray, the |
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> number of pages devoted to DRM seem to indicate more pain than gain |
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> for the few times I might read a blu ray. |
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I have zero experience with blu-ray, so obviously I'm compelled to have |
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an opinion instead :) |
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Blu-ray feels to me like a technology that was obsolete when it hit the |
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market as a consumer product. I remember being hot to buy the hardware |
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when it was introduced, but it was way too expensive back then. |
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By the time the price became reasonable, I realized that I wasn't using |
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even the dvd burners I already owned because disk space was so cheap I |
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was archiving to disk (redundantly, of course) instead of to dvd. |
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One use-case I've never needed, though, is to burn 25 gigs of stuff so |
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I can hand it or snail-mail it to someone instead of sending it over the |
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internet. I just don't need it. |
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I can imagine being required to use blu-ray by an employer or customer, |
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though. |
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