What Happens when you use a PC Disc Drive in 2024...?

Anyone else using a disc drive here in 2024?
This is the first time I've used a PC disc drive in YEARS... I had a disc drive on my windows laptop ~10 years ago, but I never really used it. In fact, I think I actually swapped it with an SSD. The last time I was extensively using disc drives was in the early 2000s when I played lots of physical PC games.
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[@SmokinSilicon]

Anyone else using a disc drive on your PC nowadays? I’m looking forward to playing some of my old childhood favorites again 👀

[@Markus_Pankalla]

Yeah I still have a disc drive on my pc

[@bhgaming14]

when i saw that xbox 360 case i knew damn good and well its gotta be call of duty mw2 and sure enough it is lol

[@KaddeMario]

I have a LG 4K BluRay portable drive to play 4K Movie but must use Intel iGPU up to 10th Gen CPUs due to those CPUs has SGX

[@ballinn0430]

I actively use one, I have many audio CDs and game discs that I got for free at a yard sale during the town festival, just the sound of the disc drive closing and the disc reading gives me nostalgic.

[@aroundtheblockwithbrock4799]

I got a external disc reader for my gaming laptop so I can play old games and rip cds to mp3 files for my iPod 😀

[@MxSlfDstrct]

"what happens when you use a PC disc drive in $YEAR…?" idk man it probably reads optical media that you put into it. what the fuck did you expect.

[@dogmd7]

💀

[@sonicjhiq]

I purposely got a pc with a disc drive just incase I ever needed it, I've mostly used it for my dvd collection and the occasional old pc software disc I find at my grandparents house

[@KidGhost-oc8zq]

You can buy a disc drive for your PC

[@sonicjhiq]

@@KidGhost-oc8zq if you mean a portable one I know, but I prefer a more permanent one in my PC

[@Ishatmyself172]

i found a copy of mega collection plus for pc at my nans house when i was quite young, was very stupid at the time so i thought it ran on xbox, eventually used the shitty toshiba to boot it up and it was so worth it

[@jmtradbr]

My PC still have one. I'm reusing the same case for 15 years so i had no reason to remove my DVD drive.

[@RusRus72]

i love physical stuff

[@Aragon23-p2k]

I used to burn DVD's with Nero back in the day, good times.

[@GroupNebula563]

what happens when you use a keyboard in 2024

[@ballinn0430]

It works.

[@Darcvigilante]

or it doesn't

[@GroupNebula563]

, depending on the keyboard you use.

[@The2x4King]

There might be a firmware mod that would make that blu-ray drive read 4k blu rays. Unfortunately, the DRM situation with 4k blu rays on PCs is so convoluted that playback is not likely possible (gotta be on specific Intel 7th through 9th gen hardware) - could rip them for Plex playback though. Funny thing is that I bought a Blu Ray burner back in maybe 2017 or so that can read them out of the box, no modification needed, so for a period of time, new blu ray drives likely came with 4k compatibility, although it was never stated as such.

[@RWL2012]

My PC has a Blu-ray drive in it that I bought pre-modded.

[@A_G_w_R]

i was surprised when i found out that pcs dont have a dvd drive no more

[@sirjarko8762]

I still use a blu ray drive for my main rig. For me its because my PC is sort of set up for everything, content creation, gaming including retro games, modern games, usual PC browsing and work related things etc. I went with a coolermaster NR400 as I really wanted something modern, small, sturdy, not overly flashy and well designed and it certainly checks all those boxes. Its got great airflow which I need for my 3080ti and 5900x. It does also have a big brother the NR600 which is dope. Personally those are my favorite modern cases with bluray drives as they seem to work well with modern PC gaming stuff like radiators, RGB, Airflow while also having the bluray naturally fit in to the design. Some cases I've seen its sort of a mess. I can understand those that don't bother with bluray/DVD drives it really is sort of a niche, The 4k situation is messy, I did end up patching my drive so it does read 4k UHDs but unless i have the specific hardware I gotta rip the media so I can watch it. Very dumb but there is something to be said about the insane quality of UHDs. The most use recently I've gotten out of mine weirdly is ripping PS3 games so I can play them on my Jailbroken PS3 which isn't possible with all blu ray drives

[@LegoBob4123]

8:16 According to the PC Gaming Wiki, Soccer Mania uses SafeDisc DRM, which does not work on Win10/11.

[@ammarahmed7566]

Remember when disc drives existed in windows laptops and even Mac laptops, sadly discs are reserved for consoles now

[@GTAbestplayer123]

You can still buy DVD drives that will connect through your pc's USB port. 😏

[@ammarahmed7566]

Yes but it's an added cost, now no wonder ps5 pro has no disc drive 😂

[@GTAbestplayer123]

@@ammarahmed7566 You have a point. I am currently trying to find a case with a slot for DVD drive.

[@GTAbestplayer123]

@@ammarahmed7566 You have a point. But to be honest dvd drives are longer that useful anymore know what I mean. I only use them when I want to rip my cd and dvd collection.

[@GTAbestplayer123]

@@ammarahmed7566 you have a point but to be honest dvd drives are longer that useful anymore. I only used them when I want to r i p my cds.

[@Swampert_Tube]

My custom built PC has a bluray drive and I love it. It saves me file space when emulating PS2

[@O_Kir_Soulios]

Hi! I would like to give you some information about video on DVD. You can either burn a video in the VideoDVD format or in the Data DVD format. The Video DVD requires to downgrade the video to 480p and conversions to play in a regular DVD player. The Data DVD format is the one you used. You just burn files to a DVD, but they can be read only with a PC. Some DVD players support file playback but they support some codecs only. Also the PS3 supports Data DVD playback. To burn a Video DVD you can use a DVD Creator. I recommend using DVDStyler because it’s free and easy and offers a variety of features that are both great and professional. Hope I helped. Keep up the good work! Love from Greece, Chris

[@ironbadger6988]

I bought an external disc drive as most of my younger days were on CDs, DVDs etc. yes I have them backed up but I don’t want to get rid of them!

[@utfigyii5987]

I listen to CDs, really handy, especially when I got the drive for free

[@KnightmareUSA]

I have plenty of disc games from 1999 that work without issues on win 11. The real problems begun when drm arose from the mid 2000s into the 2010s. Some titles with drm on dvd are near impossible to run now without patching. I'll probably get a backup bluray m disc drive eventually. I have also a working Iomega usb floppy disc drive with 10 and 11. I found out that 20 year old floppy disks still read perfectly, although I'm sure estimated lifespan should be far less. My verbatim dvds still hold up too, ten years for the oldest

[@GTAbestplayer123]

I still use a DVD drive to rip CDs, install my copy of NFS Underground 1, and watch DVDs on my PC. 😁

[@Mats_Games]

Still use one, bought one last year!

[@bigmacgrey7750]

that xbox 360 disc screen always scared me when i was younger

[@TimDespairBear11]

I’ve burned music Cd’s before but not much besides that. I remember a lot of cd players wouldn’t read CD RW’s (rewritable) and you’d have to burn it as a CD R which essentially makes your files permanent.

[@accelgamerhd4954]

I recently got back into using one although it's an external bluray drive. But with things going all digital (hopefully not) i use one to rip movies and tv shows you just can't find anymore or can't watch on a streaming service which are expensive on their own and then add a vpn if you have to have one and now you spending quite a bit. Plus i just love owning my stuff so i always go physical if i can.

[@pacsonic9000]

When I played around with OpenRCT2, I'd make rides that would make the cart explode Michael Bay style making the people on the ride dying. Also, try discs of PS1-3, Dreamcast, Saturn, Nintendo systems, and other disc based systems that aren't the ones I mentioned nor are Xbox or Playstation.

[@Standarduser-m6o]

Funny thing is that I do own a external DVD rw drive and Live on top of my daily PC for my personal PC game collection on CD and DVD.

[@mtlmutt56]

Wow I feel old now. I still have 2 towers with burners in them. One still uses XP. Burned a disc just 2 days ago for an og xbox tsop flash

[@brandonaleman7888]

Hello Jacob. I don’t have a PC with a disk Drive tower anymore that got lost when we moved around so much but I do have a external DVD drive for my windows laptop and I’ve been using it to convert my DVDs into MP4’s and I recently burned a CD with the help of my teacher, using her CD burner tower from her computer.

[@jjohnson71958]

still works fine for me

[@aoldm11]

I’ve never built a PC without a disk drive

[@24Nik92]

I want one purposely for Sims 1. Apparently this isn’t on any gaming platforms? I need to play it just for the nostalgia 😫

[@thomasvankeulen9511]

Did you try messing around compatibility settings for your Lego game? The other day I tried installing the classic Battlefront games on my Windows 11 laptop from disc and they were giving me difficulty at first until I told it to run under compatibility for Windows XP Service Pack 3 since I figured that was the latest version of Windows at that time period. Thankfully it works like a charm under Windows XP compatibility except the game runs in 4:3 for whatever reason. Nothing mods can't fix I suppose lol

[@denz8ty648]

If you have an AMD card, go into the radeon settings and enable AMD Super Resolution. It automatically scales it up

[@wittywilla]

VLC is good for Blu-ray’s :)

[@danmar007]

It's as slow as it ever was, but it still works.

[@cydragon2.099]

another PC Cd rom to try is FATE The Traitor Soul it's WIldtangent's own Diablo game like Torchlight

[@matthewprickett1994]

i got one in my pc i like playing old games on disk that steam and that dont have

[@sirducksworthythe3rd842]

Normal people still use the pc disc drive i know i and several people still do

[@cydragon2.099]

the burned 4k video possibly got downscaled to the cleanest SD quality for DVDs

[@RusRus72]

No. Burning a dvd as a data disk is not the same as burning a dvd as a dvd movie disk.

[@cydragon2.099]

@@RusRus72 idk if he was playing the DVD as a movie or to store a video on the disk

[@RusRus72]

it requires software to "author" a mp4 file into a dvd compatible file to play it as a dvd, and it will downscale it to the original mpeg-2 480p resolution.@@cydragon2.099

[@mihkelkastehein9470]

What happens when you use a disc drive in 2024 you just use a disc drive

[@smith7602]

Is that Benq attached to its stand and an arm at the same time?

[@happyguy1237]

Awesome

[@RedemptionGabeYT]

I am using one to play blu rays

[@jediknight52501]

Do Dreamcast and PS1 games.

[@WantBadtime]

Can't you just use VLC media player to watch blu-ray movies? I never own a blu-ray drive, but you can play and watch DVD movies fine with VLC.

[@auzilion8050]

3:19 , 6:03 piracy tutorial

[@auzilion8050]

8:43 HOOOOOLY shit it worked

[@jmtradbr]

Try opening the console games with emulators.

[@TheOnlyPedroGameplays]

The emulator creates an instance of the console’s software, right? I don’t have much knowledge but I assume emulators are basically just your pc running what’s basically a game console that can play any game the emulator supports.

[@anthonyt1t5]

Battlefield 2 is basically the only battlefield game where you can play completely offline with a bunch of bots... you basically own it as long the discs still work. Meanwhile battlefield 2042, it kicks me out as soon as my internet loses connection... F****ING SUCKS. I rather have physical pc games that require you to have the disc in the drive than a drm ridden mess of a game that requires online all the F***ING TIME

[@WernerVanWykgamerawesomes]

Awesome 😂😂😂😂awesome entertaining and fun 😂😂😂awesome entertaining

[@СолнечныйКотОгонь235]

Nowadays people use Steam

[@KnightmareUSA]

Steam will disappear one day. So will your game collection. Some people have also been locked out of Steam and Epic and have already lost everything.

[@BlackFantasy470]

Never tried this out, but shouldn't VLC play the Bluray as well? I normally only convert them to mkv and not actually watch them directly from the disc. (Like that, you can put a BD movie onto a DVD if there's sufficient space) About the PS3/PS4, and possibly PS5 discs. If you put a game into the console and the firmware is too old, you have to update. It's the same as if you're connected to the internet. That's just a safety mechanism for those without internet connection. Just imagine not being able to play the game because you can't update the firmware because you don't have internet. If you put older discs like PS2 in, you can actually see the folders and what's inside them. I've copied/burned many PS2 games to use with my mod-chip PS2 back in the day.

[@bryanobrien2726]

VLC will not play protected Blu-Rays like store bought movies , he could use it to watch his own ripped Blu-Ray video discs or files . It does not have the necessary AACS keys to play Blu-Ray films .

[@RusRus72]

vlc has the option to play blurays but cant decrypt them, you need something like makemkv to decrypt the movie and play it.

[@confusedsiren56]

u need to use rpcs3 and rip the games so u can play them

[@Oltheboll]

Isnt't that illegal?

[@cydragon2.099]

@@Oltheboll nope some PS3 game are not sold anymore so their abandonware

[@SmokinSilicon]

Yeah I for sure need to try that. I’m a big fan of using discs

[@confusedsiren56]

U only need a unmodified LG bu40n to rip PS3 games