how many people here...?

[BlurayHD]

How many people here still record their favorite movies on Blu-ray discs?

[dannyboy48888]

Had too many issues with BD failing after a few years. Do on DVDs now and days at 480p.

[TreeTops]

I have found that I play a DVD or Blu-ray once, maybe twice, then NEVER look at it again. I have some that have sat around for 25 years just taking up space and gathering dust. Unless it's a family DVD, nobody every wants to see it again. Even then there is no interest from the next generation of kids. And when you are gone, the heirs will just through them in the trash.

[Incorrigible]

To me BD is ancient technology, I see no point in using it.

In fact I have ripped all me DVD's and BD's to thumb drives and put the original discs in a closet.

[dannyboy48888]

Eh it is durable though and I use it to put Xvid avis I make on disc. All my devices including portable DVD players usually play them. USB drives are nice but I've had way more fail and loose everything compared to 1 or 2 bad DVDs here and there. Ancient yes but still useful

[dellsam34]

Since all the replies are basically I don't use it anymore why not add my voice?

I was a videophile, I always cared about HD, not much for DVD, I actually use to record a lot back in 2005 when HD was new to a lot of people, I had a dishnet satellite receiver modified by a company named Nextcome Wireless to stream HD MPEG-2 PS over a mini USB board added to the guts of the receiver into a computer, then from there I put those files as data on DVD-R's, I split big files into 4GB chunks losslessly to fit in discs, then when double sided blank discs went down on price I started using them, Basically a movie would fit in a single double sided disc or a double sided disc plus a single sided one, I had HD 1080i/720p discs before Blu-ray was even on the scene, Then later on dual layer discs came down on price so I started using them.

By the time BD-R became affordable for recording, Netflix was already offering movies on HD-DVD and Blu-ray, So I started renting movies and TV shows on a cheap monthly subscription, I have to admit I did copy the important stuff to BD-Rs and BD-R DL from those rentals, Who didn't? But when streaming improved in quality and internet speed increased I quit recording. I do still have most of my recordings though, DVD-R, DVD-R DS, DVD-R DL, BD-R, BD-R DL and a combination of them till this day, I can't sell them and I don't want to get rid of them, so they are just sitting.

[Santiago]

I have recorded all of my family videos on DVD and Blu-ray discs. It is much easier for family members to play then on a Blu-ray player then to have to put them on a flash drive

[dellsam34]

Now it's the other way around, But back then HDD's and flash media were very expensive to use them for content hoarding especially movies, There is also a transitional period in a person's life when he wants to collect and hoard everything he can, but over time when he gets old he starts to thin the herd and lose interest and just enjoy whatever available at the time.