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Community weekly poll: How many CDs and DVDs have you burned in the last month?
- 1/25/06 4:00 PM
Books on CD's
by adorah - 1/27/06 12:00 PM In reply to: How many CDs and DVDs have you burned in the last month? by Marc Bennett
Gee I go through about 50-100 a month. I do trade offs with friends and burn them for my collection too. As far as movies I do about 3 a month and am still useing the DVD X Copy Epress. Need to find a new program for new machine I have, any sugestions? Thanks L.
How many CD's have you burned?
by Hotelcharlie - 1/27/06 12:18 PM In reply to: How many CDs and DVDs have you burned in the last month? by Marc Bennett
I use CD's regularly to back-up my data. I burn 6 to 10 a month, sometimes more. Now I'm concerned after reading the update that says these CD's may only last 2 to 5 years. Now I'm wondering if the portable flash drives etc. would be a better way to go to save back- up data. Anyone care to comment? HC, Las Vegas.
P.S. Living in Las Vegas makes me wonder if there is a viable method to back-up my sanity, just in case it's lost before I get out of here.
How many CDs and DVDs have you burned in the last month?
by cdeckert219 - 1/27/06 12:40 PM In reply to: How many CDs and DVDs have you burned in the last month? by Marc Bennett
Over a hundred DVDs. Got a Humax/Tivo box for Christmas. I put old classic movies (and episodes of Monk!) on DVD for those winter days where you don't want to leave the house.
CD & DVDs I have burned
by Bill Haitch - 1/27/06 2:13 PM In reply to: How many CDs and DVDs have you burned in the last month? by Marc Bennett
I burned about 8 DVDs over the past month.
Reason-1: File backups (My Documents), about 800 photos, email folders and Addr-book, downloads.
Reason-2: Home "movies" videos using Studio-8.
The future: About 10 more videos of vacations still "in the can" on digital video tape.
Wish List: Make slide shows out of the photos* my wife and I have shot over the past three years (yes our first grandchild is three years old).
*Photos - those that survive a serious amount of culling and editing, cropping, removing red-eye etc.
Reason-3: Back up and organize into slide shows my 50 years worth of photos. These will have to be culled out and scanned in. I should be ruthless and throw out all the prints afterwards, otherwise my kids will have to do it (after the inevitable ...). I have a feeling that reason-3 is mine alone, so I should better spend my (limited!) time playing with the kids, sailing, playing tennis, shooting pool, cooking, talking with Penny, or taking even more pictures!
(NT) Mostly family video "home movies" from up to 20+ years
by snidely9447 - 1/27/06 3:03 PM In reply to: How many CDs and DVDs have you burned in the last month? by Marc Bennett
CD burning
by leo1of2 - 1/27/06 3:52 PM In reply to: How many CDs and DVDs have you burned in the last month? by Marc Bennett
I use my burner for backups & copying new programs so I can put original in a safe place.imlion
I've burned 6 to 10 cd-r's. Why? We homeschool.
by dawnjerrene - 1/27/06 4:13 PM In reply to: How many CDs and DVDs have you burned in the last month? by Marc Bennett
The majority of cd-r's I copy are educational, or edu-tainment. We have 4 children under the age of 8, and we are homeschooling. I make only a personal copy of each program my kids use, so I can allow them a bit more freedom with their computer use. If their copy gets a scratch or whatever, then I still have the original tucked away to fall back on. This protects our software investment, without crossing the line into 'piracy', imo.
Dawn
1 to 5 (consisting mostly of what?) A.: Backups
by btljooz - 1/27/06 4:39 PM In reply to: How many CDs and DVDs have you burned in the last month? by Marc Bennett
Th-th-th-that's all, folks 
hehehe!
Backups and school work
by smartipants - 1/27/06 8:12 PM In reply to: How many CDs and DVDs have you burned in the last month? by Marc Bennett
I just upgraded to a 160 GB external HDD and backed up all of my files from the smaller previous HDD onto CDs. Then reloaded about half of them back onto the new drive for ease in finding them. I also burn quite a few to turn in my college work to the professors in digital media classes. Some use portable flash drives, but I like CDs - if they get lost, which happens sometimes, I don't care. :o)
Burn about 12 or more
by Aerospaceman - 1/27/06 8:52 PM In reply to: How many CDs and DVDs have you burned in the last month? by Marc Bennett
They consist mainly of music and data disks.
I burn more than I can listen to
by pwester - 1/28/06 1:11 AM In reply to: How many CDs and DVDs have you burned in the last month? by Marc Bennett
Do I need psychiatric help? I download lots of music and burn more than I can listen to. It's a question of want to have. I used to have this with books, but with CDs it much more worse. Where do I put all those CDs? I have to remove my books, give them away to friends, so I have space for CDs. And how do I find them back if I want to listen something? I cannot find it and have to download and burn it again. I forsake serious things as going to the theatre, birthsdays, filling in the tax form.
And what if I die? What should my heirs do with all thede CDs? Help!
No Problem But!
by hrmays - 1/28/06 4:28 AM In reply to: How many CDs and DVDs have you burned in the last month? by Marc Bennett
All these cd burners and software are quirky at best and not a thing on a PC lasts long enough if you consider what you pay for it all. No wonder Gates ET AL are billionaires.
Mostly software, partly important docs, no freq changing ...
by Robbie Mosaic - 1/28/06 5:24 AM In reply to: How many CDs and DVDs have you burned in the last month? by Marc Bennett
A CDR/DVD+R is great for archiving, but not ideal for daily backup. For daily backup, a removable hard disk would be better.
quick backups, ftp to another PC
by Rick S. - 1/28/06 12:16 PM In reply to: Mostly software, partly important docs, no freq changing ... by Robbie MosaicMy 'serious' archives are (1) for offsite storage, in case my entire house is burglarized to the walls; and (2) Linux Distro disks, I play with a few of 'em.
Total: < 3 per month.
Burned DVDs
by fordmanbill - 1/29/06 6:47 AM In reply to: How many CDs and DVDs have you burned in the last month? by Marc Bennett
I generally burn about 15 DVDs, depending on how many new releases I like. CDs, 1 or two a month...
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