OFF-LIST * Basil Chupin <blchupin@iinet.net.au> [02-24-18 03:43]:
On 22/02/18 23:38, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 02/22/2018 01:31 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
They do, actually.
The fact was shown to me the other day, in this mail list.
I asked to drop the DVD install image and switch to an USB install image, bigger. Not going to happen, the DVD is still used. I stand corrected.
The largest manufacturer of CD-Rs and DVDs and also the inventor of CD-R media, Taiyo Yuden, stopped making them. Same for TDK.
Reference, thank you.
Other manufacturers are following suit. These companies wouldn't stop making media if people were still buying them. Also, more and more computers you buy these days don't even ship with an optical drive anymore.
So, while there are certainly people still using optical media, they are becoming a minority as the market is declining.
Adrian
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