Now that I finally have a bit of free time to take care of super-important matters like burning CDs full of polka music*, it occurred to me: Does anyone burn CDs any more? Does anyone even use CDs or DVDs in 2015?

I know a lot of people still play games on disc, but since I don't have a modern game console, I hardly ever play games unless they're freeware downloads or things that people send me on Steam. It's not a bad idea to back stuff up to DVD, but I find USB thumb drives to be a lot more convenient - and more importantly, evidence suggests that homemade optical discs are not very reliable. And if I want to share files with someone, it's easier just to pop the files in Google Drive or Dropbox.

* On rare occasions, it's important for me to be able to play polka music in my car. I hope the gangstas won't shoot me if my Hank Haller tunes bleed into their over-exaggerated bass.

not for what i used to use them for, that's for certain. a lot of older operating systems don't support booting from USB, so i can't install them with a pen drive.

Outside of playing disc games, I really don't use CDs or DVDs anymore. You already have smartphones for listening to music, movies can easily be bought off of the internet, and USBs or SD cards for anything else. And now I've started getting more digital games anyway.

From what I've seen, 80% of DVD and CD use has went to bootlegging nowadays.

Depending on the application/request, I use both on a regular basis, starting with blanks.

Before I had a means of watching Youtube on my main TV, I would encode downloaded video files as Video TS/.VOB to watch videos using my DVD player.

I also burn Mix-discs for CD player systems that do not support Data CD/MP3 playback.

And of course, both are endlessly handy for backups of Games/Movies/Music, once the DRM has been circumvented.

I use them primarily with the intent of booting or installation assistance. That's about it.

I have an old aftermarket stereo in my car with CD and AUX. I never used CD anymore since my primary source of music is from my phone via AUX. And I rarely uses CD/DVD for booting up the installations anymore since majorities of the time I boot via USB flash drive.