Not since... 2013?

Haven't need one. /shrug

Nope, I haven't got a DVD since someone got me Family Guy season 3 about a decade ago. Never needed a drive although I still have a stack of blank DVDs somewhere.

Slightly off topic but I find Dan rebuying all his DVDs on Blueray as utterly insane.

I do the same thing with my favourites because until streaming movies come with extras (when I rip DVDs to my NAS I include commentary tracks) it's still the most complete way for a film fan.

Can't remember the last time I watched a movie on my PC though and I've re-bought most of the old disc based games I own on Steam or GOG.

Still got one for my old games. Too lazy to rip them. My previous build of like 5-7 years ago still had a floppy drive because why not?

Yes, a Bluray reader. I haven't meaningfully used it since Fallout 4 came out, and the physical edition of that game was just a 9GB partial preload on a single DVD. At least Dragon Age Inquisition gave me four discs and meaningfully reduced my download time. I still watch tons of movies and shows physically, but I use my PS3 or Xbox One for that. Internet is still not great or cheap out here, and multiple ongoing streaming subscriptions add up quick.

Yes but i never use it.

@dave_tacitus: Is it because the extras are new or more abundant or is everything else exactly the same? Isn't Dan also replacing his entire collection. It just seems like such a waste of resources.

Internal Blu-Ray burner. I use it often.

I built my PC in 2012 and I put a DVD drive in. Couldn't see a reason to spend the extra for a Blu-Ray drive, especially as I had a PS3 at the time, but I did use the disc a few times for things like Civilization V and StarCraft II (although those both then just downloaded from Steam/Battlenet) as well as for installing older games I already had on disc. I guess I also picked up Manga Studio 5 recently and that came on a disc, so it does still see some use - perhaps once a year or so.

@picky_bugger: I'm a sucker for a good commentary track, I suppose, but guess I'm in the minority - Apparently Netflix included one with the first House of Cards season but the take-up was so low that they didn't bother with subsequent seasons.

It'd be an easy enough thing to implement, especially if a movie has one for the disc release, but doubt it's worth their time.

Yes, but I can only open it in Windows, no hardware button.

I figured that it would be nice to at least have the option of using discs. And it was only 20$, so why not.

Yes, I still run into quite a few situations where I've needed one and don't want to be caught without it, especially since they are not expensive.

Nope, everything is digital both games and music.

USB sticks are smaller and allow more storage too.

Yes but that's solely because I'm too lazy to take it out

I have an old DVD burner. Still use it every now and then to play old games but I don't really need it. My next build will not have any optical drives, or any traditional hard drives for that matter. #SSDMasterrace

Yes, and I'm thinking about building a computer over the next month or so that will also have one. They're pretty cheap and I'm looking to rip my DVDs and Blu-Rays at some point in the future.

I got a blu-ray burner off Amazon for like $40 because I figured it might be useful to have. I ripped some of my CD collection with it.

Yeah, so I can rip Blu Rays to Plex.

The one I installed broke like immediately after I built the PC and I should really replace it what with how cheap Amazon makes PC games on disc and how bad my internet is.

Nope. I have one in my closet I got with a couple of oldish PC games that aren't old enough for GOG or no longer available digitally (thanks GFWL) and thats all I've used it for. Actually probably need to pull it out again because I reinstalled Windows and had foolishly installed some of those games on my C Drive.

Surprised at the poll results, I figured everyone would get away from that stuff. Discs aren't great for archiving, and on PC these days so little is even available actually on a disc so you don't save much. I figured people would have already digitized their old media and moved away.

yep, blu-ray burner.

How else would I play Championship Manager 2001-2002? ILLEGALLY!?

Yeah, I have a Blu-ray burner. I can count the number of times I've used it on the fingers of one hand.

I still have an optical drive in my main production rig and in my media server/htpc/mame machine, my laptop doesn't have one and its never been an issue.

Only port/interface that I can't live without on my laptop is wired ethernet thanks to the incredible dodgy wifi in my office.

Haven't had one since 2010. It's been an issue maybe twice in that time, but I can easily go rip/burn discs on another computer so it's kind of whatever.

When I built my PC six years ago it had one. I removed it for some dark purpose a while ago and now it's sitting on my kitchen table and there's a hole in my case where it should be but I've never needed to reinstall it.

Some younger students laughed at me recently for having a laptop with an optical drive.

My desktop still has one although I'm not sure what good it's doing. I bought a physical copy of DOOM this year because the sale price made it cheaper than the digital version at the time and internet here is not the fastest so I hoped for a quicker installation. Turns out I still had to download 40+ GB of patches which took many hours.

mine does but only after several years of not having one and finally i came across a sata DVD-RW drive that nobody wanted so i just put it in my PC for giggles. I still don't use it.

Yes., used it to install some of my mobo drivers. Before that I burned a few DVDs. I think I've used it 10 times since I built my PC back in 2013.

My living room media PC? Yes, but I never use it.

Office gaming PC? No and I'm glad I skipped out on it.

About to build a small HTPC gaming build for the bedroom and I plan to skip on a ODD there too.

For now, but it's probably not going to be in there much longer. If I get a smaller case down the line that thing's the first thing to go. If I need an optical drive for some reason I'll just get a USB one.

Yes*.

* It's in the optical drive slot of my desktop's case, but it isn't actually hooked up. I only hook it up to do OS installs. It hasn't been used for probably 2 years at least.

My laptop does not have an optical drive.

Yeah, got a BD burner in my desktop, strictly for the purpose of backing up optical media to my NAS and playing old games that aren't on gog. Black Dahlia, for instance.

Out of my 6 laptops I think one from 2010 has a dvd burner in it, but I also have a usb dvd reader in case I ever need to install software off optical media again. Actually had to use it recently to install some architectural CAD software.

DVD drive for watching movies and TV shows. I've been meaning to put a blu-ray drive in here for a while, but have stuck to using my PS4 instead.

Yes. My PC is old.

I just bought all the parts to build my first PC!! I did not buy an optical drive. I'm pretty sure Windows 10 comes on a thumb drive but if it comes on an optical drive I'll have to drive out and buy one.

Mine came with one, but I removed it and just have a hole there so it helps keep my PC cool ^_^ I use a cheap USB one as well, the few rare times when I need one.

Yes. I prefer one just in case. I've used it a handful of times the last few years but it has been used.

Yes, I used it to install windows. It has not been used much after that. It's a DVD burner I bought for next nothing. I checked and there's a CD in it that I thought I lost so thanks for reminding me!

I have 6, left over from a project where I was ripping a 400 CD collection for a buddy. I never removed them.

@ghost_cat: Give this a whirl.

It shouldn't, but it does. I told the guy who put it together that I didn't want one. He threw one in for free anyway. Since then, I've replaced every single other part in my PC, and kept the drive. It's like this old stray dog that just keeps hanging around.

I just built a PC but skipped the drive. So far so good :o

yes, but i unplugged it when i installed my 1070 to conserve power on my psu.

Yeah but it also doesn't turn on anymore, so..

I mean yeah. When you're already spending like a bunch of money on a high-end machine you may as well pay the tiny amount for the drive too.

I spend like $20 or $30 bucks for a Blu Ray burner several years ago and I think I've used it less than a dozen times in total. I don't even need it to install windows because bootable USB drives. That kind of physical media is getting left behind, at least on PC in my opinion. The digital future is gaining more and more traction by the day.