Purchasing a system that would boot up in less than 10 seconds would again be out of the realm of 20 cent dvd
What kind of laptop do you have? My 7 year old laptop is ready in less than one second from opening the lid.
...you're conveniently forgetting the cost aspect..cost, convenience, reliability. I'm pleased for you if your laptop *could* beat mine by 2 seconds...not really a deal maker though is it.
It is in terms of convenience because I don't have to get up to change a disc, I don't have to search through a big old pile of DVDs. Having movies on a hard disc is just a lot more convenient than having them on a pile of DVDs and this can't be argued with. You probably don't have as many computers as I do, for one (in the situation where a girlfriend wanted to watch some soppy chick flick in my house and I'm using my laptop wouldn't be a problem. They can just use the old laptop).
Now you have your reasons for sticking with DVD and the mistake you're making is you think I'm criticising you for this. However, this is not true. All I'm saying is once you have the infrastructure, having stuff online on a hard disc, or online and available for instant streaming is a lot faster and a lot more convenient, and costs less *time* than using DVDs especially when it comes to doing backups. For instance, my time machine backups mean I just leave an external drive plugged in, I don't have to constantly back stuff up to a whole array of DVDs. My time is worth something, while a DVD may cost 25c, I want to actually do other things with my time, and it is FAR more likely that my desktop machine will get backed up if all I have to do is leave an external disc connected, and let Time Machine get on with the job. I'd rather spend the small amount extra on having an external USB hard disc and just plugging it in, rather than spending less on 40 dual layer DVDs and having to sit there changing 40 discs, and then feeding new discs on a regular basis to keep the backups current. With a hard disc it just happens and I don't have to find time nor remember to do it.
I believe they were made redundant by the introduction of the DVD
No, people still wanted to record stuff. (And a DVD recorder is still a video recorder. The words "video recorder" does not imply VHS, it implies a stanalone device that records video to some kind of storage). The standalone video recorder of any kind, to tape, to DVD-R, to hard disc, was made redundant largely when you could do the same off the internet to a computer. Not completely obsolete, there are still households that don't have a computer, or a computer plus adequate internet connection, but for an increasing proportion of people a standalone video recorder of any kind is gathering dust. (I don't think I've had one for about 8 years now).
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What kind of laptop do you have? My 7 year old laptop is ready in less than one second from opening the lid.
It is in terms of convenience because I don't have to get up to change a disc, I don't have to search through a big old pile of DVDs. Having movies on a hard disc is just a lot more convenient than having them on a pile of DVDs and this can't be argued with. You probably don't have as many computers as I do, for one (in the situation where a girlfriend wanted to watch some soppy chick flick in my house and I'm using my laptop wouldn't be a problem. They can just use the old laptop).
Now you have your reasons for sticking with DVD and the mistake you're making is you think I'm criticising you for this. However, this is not true. All I'm saying is once you have the infrastructure, having stuff online on a hard disc, or online and available for instant streaming is a lot faster and a lot more convenient, and costs less *time* than using DVDs especially when it comes to doing backups. For instance, my time machine backups mean I just leave an external drive plugged in, I don't have to constantly back stuff up to a whole array of DVDs. My time is worth something, while a DVD may cost 25c, I want to actually do other things with my time, and it is FAR more likely that my desktop machine will get backed up if all I have to do is leave an external disc connected, and let Time Machine get on with the job. I'd rather spend the small amount extra on having an external USB hard disc and just plugging it in, rather than spending less on 40 dual layer DVDs and having to sit there changing 40 discs, and then feeding new discs on a regular basis to keep the backups current. With a hard disc it just happens and I don't have to find time nor remember to do it.
No, people still wanted to record stuff. (And a DVD recorder is still a video recorder. The words "video recorder" does not imply VHS, it implies a stanalone device that records video to some kind of storage). The standalone video recorder of any kind, to tape, to DVD-R, to hard disc, was made redundant largely when you could do the same off the internet to a computer. Not completely obsolete, there are still households that don't have a computer, or a computer plus adequate internet connection, but for an increasing proportion of people a standalone video recorder of any kind is gathering dust. (I don't think I've had one for about 8 years now).
It also sounds like a lot of hassle to me that you have to use different DVD readers for older and newer burnt DVD's.