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What are some things that can be done with blank dvds, nowadays? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by QuietStorm@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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So my family has a few containers of unused blank dvds that are just lying around collecting dust. i know dvds are almost useless because of streaming, but can they still be used. Theses dvds can only be written to once and they only have like 3 gb of storage on them, can they still be used?, do they have a use?

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[–] yukichigai@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

If you have a BluRay player most will read BluRay content burned to a DVD (a.k.a. BD5), and others will do AVCHD (a related but more simple format). You'll be much more limited in terms of space obviously, but you can still put video on there at far better than DVD quality.

Also if you're like me and have a rotating set of games you install and uninstall, you can copy installation backups to a series of DVDs. Steam even has a built-in option to break installation backup files into 4.3 gig files specifically for burning to DVD.

[–] ivanafterall@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Both great suggestions. I didn't know about either.

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