It’s a slightly more involved project, but tmbinc managed to write arbitrary pictures to a DVD surface:
https://debugmo.de/2022/05/fjita-the-project-that-wasnt-mean...
A tool for burning visible pictures on a compact disc surface (2022)
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Re: A tool for burning visible pictures on a compact disc surface (2022)
#12Back in the day, there was a Yamaha burner with a feature called "DiscT@2". It could burn images and text onto the unused area of a CD-ROM. I just had to get it and did so, and I had a bit of fun with it.
Re: A tool for burning visible pictures on a compact disc surface (2022)
#13If only this existed 15 years ago when I got rid of my burners.
After many years without an optical drive in my home, I bought an external one within the last year or so. It's one of those things that occasionally comes up, and is useful to have around, and I figured the longer I waited the more difficult it would become to find a decent one.
Optical media is unmatched for archival purposes. I have photos, videos, and documents I'd be devastated to lose. I simply cannot trust magnetic or solid-state storage over the long term.
Luckily blurays are still somewhat cheap in Japan so I stock up when I visit. Stored properly they should outlive me.
Re: A tool for burning visible pictures on a compact disc surface (2022)
#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
After many years without an optical drive in my home, I bought an external one within the last year or so. It's one of those things that occasionally comes up, and is useful to have around, and I figured the longer I waited the more difficult it would become to find a decent one.
Optical media is unmatched for archival purposes. I have photos, videos, and documents I'd be devastated to lose. I simply cannot trust magnetic or solid-state storage over the long term. Luckily blurays are still somewhat cheap in Japan so I stock up when I visit. Stored properly they should outlive me.
If you care about your data, you need to have a regular process where you check the copies and remake them from time to time.
Hopefully some of the copies live on after your death. Optical does well, but I've seen reasonably treated cd-rs degrade, and well treated pressed cds decay. Sometimes some mistake in production takes years to become apparent, but results in a fixed lifetime below the estimates.
Re: A tool for burning visible pictures on a compact disc surface (2022)
#15If only this existed 15 years ago when I got rid of my burners.
It did! I remember playing with 'Disc T@2' when I was a kid. I had a lightscribe then too, so I put pictures on both sides
Re: A tool for burning visible pictures on a compact disc surface (2022)
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
After many years without an optical drive in my home, I bought an external one within the last year or so. It's one of those things that occasionally comes up, and is useful to have around, and I figured the longer I waited the more difficult it would become to find a decent one.
Optical media is unmatched for archival purposes. I have photos, videos, and documents I'd be devastated to lose. I simply cannot trust magnetic or solid-state storage over the long term. Luckily blurays are still somewhat cheap in Japan so I stock up when I visit. Stored properly they should outlive me.
I have so many CDs/DVDs that cannot be read anymore that I stopped using them for backups.
Re: A tool for burning visible pictures on a compact disc surface (2022)
#17I suppose these shapes could be made incredibly detailed. There must be some kind of application for that.
Re: A tool for burning visible pictures on a compact disc surface (2022)
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
After many years without an optical drive in my home, I bought an external one within the last year or so. It's one of those things that occasionally comes up, and is useful to have around, and I figured the longer I waited the more difficult it would become to find a decent one.
Optical media is unmatched for archival purposes. I have photos, videos, and documents I'd be devastated to lose. I simply cannot trust magnetic or solid-state storage over the long term. Luckily blurays are still somewhat cheap in Japan so I stock up when I visit. Stored properly they should outlive me.
Regular optical media can suffer corrosion of the aluminium reflector layer, and breakdown of the dye. Sure, they do make archival grade discs (e.g. with a gold layer) but they're expensive.
Re: A tool for burning visible pictures on a compact disc surface (2022)
#19Back in the day, there was a Yamaha burner with a feature called "DiscT@2". It could burn images and text onto the unused area of a CD-ROM. I just had to get it and did so, and I had a bit of fun with it.
It seemed especially badass when the model number was the CRW-F1, released in 2002.
It was also cool because the activity would blink purple (orange + blue) during writing. This set it apart when blue LEDs were all the rage.
Re: A tool for burning visible pictures on a compact disc surface (2022)
#20Back in the day, there was a Yamaha burner with a feature called "DiscT@2". It could burn images and text onto the unused area of a CD-ROM. I just had to get it and did so, and I had a bit of fun with it.
Same. I had one of these in ‘98/‘99. The disc didn’t even go into a standard tray—-you had to use a caddy that completely enveloped the disc.