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Use of USB External DVD+/- RW Drive

 
1. Ripping CDs and DVDs to media files.
Amazing how many libraries have free rentals....

2. Watching movies and listening to music from #1 that still do not exist online, streaming, etc.

Watching extras not available

Watching the above in the original format, not compressed like cd to mp3s, or double compressed like raw film to dvd to streaming compression.

E.g. American soldier, exit from rooftop during ending sandstorm battle, check out the shadows in the sand. Bluray already struggles to render this difficult scene well - barely enough bits. Dvd, streaming - both even worse and blocky. Can't even see clearly.

3. Accessing data files for work and from archive that's only on disc.

4. Burning files for backup and offline transfer.
Cloud goes down - Amazon went down last week. And IF they go down, where's your files? Gone!
Offline backup in a bank vault is safer than the cloud.

5. No home internet. No interest in paying for streaming.
Instead of $50~/month + $25~/month for the above, that's $900!! / year~ or two new Playstation 5's per year down the drain, the local library has all the latest music and movie hits FREE and the cellphone already gets me online.

6. Reinstalling Windows from disc

7. Backup of fresh system install and setup to disc for restore later.

8. Creating dvd movies of birthdays, weddings, etc that you'd rather not have the world watching.
Anything put online is forever public.

And tons of grandparents don't use none of that new fangled online crap. Besides, their analog tv hooked up to the digital antenna converter box and dvd player is about as online as they'll ever get...because some are in internet blackholes.

9. Higher price selling whatever is on the discs.
People don't blink as much paying $25 per disc for a nicely printed and cased wedding video, but stream it and they'll go cheap - can't even cover labor to make the video.

10. PS1/PS2/Wii/etc emulators.
Yes, you can rip discs, download images, but easier/quicker just to play from the original discs.

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