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Is the CD era over?

// September 11th, 2008 // Hardware & gadgets, Uncategorized

Until a month ago I only had a CD-Rom and a CD-Writer. I did not use those to mutch…mostly for burning Hollyday pictures, websites back-ups and projects that I was working on. To me it was more than enough. Until I came back from the contest I’ve been writting a few posts back.

There, at the end of the contest, we each received a DVD that contained all the seminars that were held, all the projects that were presented (including the ones made at the Open part of the contest) and some pictures that others took. Evrything had about 3GB…so it was imposible to put them on one CD and inneficient to split everything so it will fit on more CDs. Now I realised that I really needed a small upgrade for my comptuer. Not only I could not see the content of the DVD, but I couldn’t even make copies of the DVD to send to the other two members from my team (they could not make it to the contest).

So, I bought a DVD-RW and everything was fine. I went on holyday, and when I came back it was picture time. Here, it turned out, that a CD was also useless. The total ammount of pictures that we tooks was 1,7GB…way more than a CD can hold. Lucky for me…I already had a DVD writer and could put everything on a nice DVD for sending to my friends.

At this time, I also started to download some Linux LIVE CDs. Every distro was build in such a way it could fit on a CD. Also, because they were bootable CD’s I could not put them all on one DVD. So, here was I, going back to the old-fashion CD.

Anyway, I put a question in the title. Is the CD era over? Well…not yet, but it does not have more time. Even the DVD is now an old device. The new Blue-ray disc has much more storadge capacity. But, beeing at it’s begining, the DVD still has a lot of ‘life’ in front of it.