Store bought movies, by a wide wide margin. My most recent optical purchase was ten pack of RW discs a couple years back.
For the most part I think the salad days of optical media as an archival data format are mostly over. External drives are dirt cheap, much faster, higher capacity, far more convienent and more compatible (anything sold in the last decade will have a USB port, only a handful of machines have Blu-ray). And for smaller applications, flash drives are also dirt cheap, faster, more convienent and more compatible.
Are there some people who will want or need high capacity removable storage? Sure, but they'll be a minority. Are there more people who will want a writer to master home movies? Sure, but given the output of camcorders (even HD), a single layer of either format (or even DVD-9) would more than suffice for most people. Unless you happen to be an aspiring director shooting your home movies with lossless nine channel audio or something. :)
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Store bought movies, by a wide wide margin. My most recent optical purchase was ten pack of RW discs a couple years back.
For the most part I think the salad days of optical media as an archival data format are mostly over. External drives are dirt cheap, much faster, higher capacity, far more convienent and more compatible (anything sold in the last decade will have a USB port, only a handful of machines have Blu-ray). And for smaller applications, flash drives are also dirt cheap, faster, more convienent and more compatible.
Are there some people who will want or need high capacity removable storage? Sure, but they'll be a minority. Are there more people who will want a writer to master home movies? Sure, but given the output of camcorders (even HD), a single layer of either format (or even DVD-9) would more than suffice for most people. Unless you happen to be an aspiring director shooting your home movies with lossless nine channel audio or something. :)