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Over the years, the capacity of optical drives has steadily increased, with new formats offering cost-effective storage to suit archiving needs, as well as the demands of high-resolution movie playback. If you fancy upgrading your PC from CD to DVD or DVD to Blu-ray or perhaps prefer an external option it’s probably cheaper than …

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  1. TRT Silver badge

    CD virtually ignored!

    No mention of CD-R or CD-RW?

    1. TRT Silver badge

      Re: CD virtually ignored!

      Look, you wouldn't believe the number of times I've been asked if this here CD can be erased... and I'm still getting them.

  2. MJI Silver badge

    Reminds me

    I still have problems with the burnt copy of our holiday video, it decided to change frame rate and produce severe sound out of time.

    Final edit copy is fine, just copied across to PS3, burnt copy on BluRay - terrible.

  3. TheProf
    Facepalm

    THANK YOU! I DID NOT KNOW THAT.

    1. Arrrggghh-otron

      That was a management overview video... what's that doing here?

      1. Zimmer
        Coat

        Management...

        ...are now reading El Reg....

        Be Afraid, be very afraid....

  4. Ramiro
    Happy

    Ultraviolet

    I'm happy to see I'm not the only one that likes Ultraviolet.

  5. Old Handle

    Nope, no interest whatever in switching from CD to one of those malware laden platforms.

  6. MrMister

    Anyone else see the irony that the Bluray movie was 'Ultraviolet' and the operation system upgrade was Vista.

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