We all took the DVD boom era for granted

Re:We all took the DVD boom era for granted by fuzzfactor on Thursday December 12, 2024 @12:44PM (#42401380)

For a while there, most desktop PCs came with two optical disk units, one player and one player/burner.

So the original disk could be copied to writable media.

There definitely would "occasionally" be a movie lover who wasn't actually buying those copies.

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Re:We all took the DVD boom era for granted by throwaway04267 on Friday December 13, 2024 @07:13AM (#42407862)

You could manage that with only one drive, where you would just store the image on the HD temporarily. You could save space by removing unwanted content, such as foreign sound tracks, subtitles and extras. Sometimes I would even skip the end credits.

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