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a mere 10 years ago CD and DVD drives

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were a staple and present in virtually all PCS nowadays you could be forgiven

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for forgetting about your old loyal friend entirely since most laptop

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designs omit them in favor of Slimmer form factors many custom Builders leave

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them out to Save A Buck and apple no longer sells a single Mac with an

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optical disc drive but how did such a popular format go from near Universal

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adoption to being suitable for nothing but protecting tabletops history lesson

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time in the 1980s the most popular existing format for music was the

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cassette tape an analog technology that you couldn't copy without losing quality

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managed only mediocre sound Fidelity required manual fast forwarding and

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rewinding and always seemed to get tangled up in your player at the worst

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possible time CDs changed all this by allowing music studios to use digital

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recording for much better sound quality and and easier reproduction and thanks

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to their low production cost and greater data capacity CDs also made a huge

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Splash in the PC World with most software moving from multiple floppy

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discs to a single CD in the box then

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when CD burners or writers became available they were the bee's knees for

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data backups since they held nearly 500

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times as much data as a standard high density floppy disc and only about an

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order of magnitude less than hard drives at the time and it didn't stop there by

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switching from infrared to lasers that

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use shorter wavelengths of red light on DVDs and then devising methods to cover

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the entire surface of a disc with data then have another layer under it for

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double the capacity and then finally by switching to the blue light used on

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Blu-ray discs Optical made it possible

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to jam up to 100 GB of highquality

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movies with surround sound onto a disc the same size as an original CD not to

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mention that they're so cheap to produce that even Moore's Law hasn't been able

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to make USB drives or SD cards

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competitive so we're all the way into this video we still haven't answered the

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question then why did such a versatile medium lose so much ground to things

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like online streaming services are we really just too lazy to take our discs

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with us and stick them into a player well maybe but that actually isn't the

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whole story first of all Optical discs while definitely better than tapes do

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deteriorate moisture from the air can get into the metal layer that contains

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the data and cause a reaction that damages the disc not to mention that

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user created discs are written using dyes that break down over time unless

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you're shelling out for archival grade media and the discs aside the drives

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they go in are fragile too like mechanical hard drives an optical disc

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has a lot of moving Parts but unlike a hard drive which sits in a sealed box

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inside your computer Optical drives have to constantly open and close making them

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susceptible to user error and wear and

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tear especially compared to solid state drives or ssds with no moving Parts at

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all but even if all your precious equipment stayed intact nearly all other

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modern data storage mediums are faster than Optical discs anyway with even

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high-speed internet catching up and surpassing them thanks to services like

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Google fire okay lonus I get it they suck so then

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why do I still see these things all over the place well Optical discs haven't

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gone away completely despite these drawbacks because content Distributors

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still like Optical discs thanks to physical media being easier to lock down

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with DRM which you can learn more about here CDs and DVDs are still much cheaper

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than putting things on SD cards or flash drives like I mentioned before Gamers

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can sell optical disc copies of games between each other much more easily than

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ones they've downloaded making it preferable especially for console Gamers

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and audio files can enjoy lossless movie audio on Blu-ray for example something

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that even if streaming services did offer would be way more than the average

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us internet connection could handle anyway so while comparisons to other

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modern technology might make it look like shiny discs are dead it may

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actually be a while yet before we're all making disco balls out of our old CDs

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Techquickie and to you guys for watching I guess that's pretty much it

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like the video if you liked it dislike it if you thought it sucked leave a comment uh if you have suggestions for

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future fast as possibles and don't forget to check out some of the great

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videos that we've got on our other channels uh Luke for example just

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that video now