Reply 20 of 23, by the3dfxdude
Optical media at this point is long cold storage backup for me. No sense wearing out your drives playing an old game. No sense using it like a floppy drive to transfer files. But these disks are very useful if you understand the methods for archival and recovery the dvdisaster people advertise. Good media should be able to hold up for a very, very long time. So I'll really mainly use DVD+R and BD-R for backups, perhaps fully transitioning to BD, but DVD support (and CD!) is found in Blu ray drives and many used DVD drives floating around, and so perhaps will be around for a long time, if you want to put in the effort to keep optical media going. I will probably keep DVDs around for a long time.