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Still have a few of these left from many years ago and they still work and burn fine. They are an 1160 tall stack with about 1/3 full. Do they still make these anymore?

Yep, it's happening now. First sign, Audiograbber has trouble ripping from CDs. EAC burned Wavs which I then converted to MP3s and they sounded all scratchy and distorted. I have to use my Asus or Pioneer drives for this now. CDs played fine in my stereo and other drives. I guess it was going to happen eventually. :(

Hello,

I am searching for a good new optical drive to burn CDr's and DVDr's, preferably internal. I am more interested in the CDr burning capability, and would like a drive that supports slow burning speeds like 4x with CLV to produce a uniform coloured burn on the disc (I had a Plextor PX-755 that stopped working). I mean I do not want a burn with different circular shades, which I think is the result ...

Hello strangers!

I got reminded about this place after having a conversation with AI about BD-R media, which randomly in 2025 having never even seen a recordable blu-ray in the flesh I'm now finally getting a drive and some media...

How are peeps?

data storage that will last billions of years, longer than dinosaur footprints,
story here at The Register:

https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/14/sphotonix_moves_5d_memory_crystal

Now that a quality retail Blu-Ray Burner for the PC is just about non-existent for purchase, and with the media so expensive anyway, what is the current thinking on best solutions for Do-it-Yourself home and office archival data backup without using cloud / online options, and for future accessibility when hardware is different?

Thoughts, anyone? Hello?

right now im using glasses lens cleaners to clean my blank/recorded disks. though i know there are better ways to clean them to make them spotless perfect.

why i need this is because i scan my blu rays and with small amounts of disk it does impact my results.

i recently bought some CMCpro dvd-rs and they worked fine if not better quality than the verbatim azo dvd-rs.

So i wonder if i should also get a CMCpro CD-r or get my hands on a MediaPro CD-rs?

Links:
https://mediasupply.com/collections/med ... -cd-r-case

https://www.ebay.com/itm/173667523912

it looks like pioneer is stopping their sale of internal drives based off the pricing of their internal drives dramatically increased in a short time

https://a.co/d/aSrsojA
https://a.co/d/3dd2Ban
https://a.co/d/3dd2Ban

And their older gen models are also drastically increased in price (prob stock issues) from their msrp.

Here’s the Japanese pioneer website showing all of their discontinued models, including ...

Last fall we were on a cruise where the entertainment was bands from the 60's. Like the Beach Boys, Four Tops, Drifters, Righteous Bros etc. I recorded a few shows on my cell phone like 98% of the audience. I forgot about it till yesterday. I went into my ICLOUD account, and downloaded one of the videos to my computer. All went well, the video played on my computer. Then I used NERO BURNING ROM ...