In discussions of how dead is physical media then there are various things contemplated. One of them for me is how often is it written by mere mortals.
It occurred then that despite being all I am and very much still being active within computing I have never knowingly seen a blu ray burner, let alone used one.
A little while back I also visited a car garage attached to a dealer for what some might consider luxury cars (luxury leather, not so much luxury engineering underneath it all) and spun them off a bunch of audio system test CDs (not the first time I have burned off a CD but first in a while, and most of those others were for quiz nights or a friend that suffered the indignity of no line in by default and needing to take it to the dealer to liven up the aux port on the back of very custom CD player -- didn't have any nice FM rebroadcasters worth a damn in stock). For said nominally luxury cars it turns out most current models have an extensive media player/car control console (which is a piece of junk but I expected that) that does not include a CD player, and the handful of tracks I chucked on a test USB were actually more useful this last however long. At least until new models of said media players decided not to play .WAV format music.
It occurred then that despite being all I am and very much still being active within computing I have never knowingly seen a blu ray burner, let alone used one.
A little while back I also visited a car garage attached to a dealer for what some might consider luxury cars (luxury leather, not so much luxury engineering underneath it all) and spun them off a bunch of audio system test CDs (not the first time I have burned off a CD but first in a while, and most of those others were for quiz nights or a friend that suffered the indignity of no line in by default and needing to take it to the dealer to liven up the aux port on the back of very custom CD player -- didn't have any nice FM rebroadcasters worth a damn in stock). For said nominally luxury cars it turns out most current models have an extensive media player/car control console (which is a piece of junk but I expected that) that does not include a CD player, and the handful of tracks I chucked on a test USB were actually more useful this last however long. At least until new models of said media players decided not to play .WAV format music.