is a disc drive of any kind possible with this system?

woc316woc316 Posts: 1Member
i was wondering if a system add-on like a disc drive was possible on this system?

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  • HicsyHicsy Posts: 177Member
    not really... i mean, i've tried dvd drive, floppy, HD-DVD and blu-ray on an android 3.0 tablet b4...
    I think i saw somewhere an explanation why it cant be done but lets just say no.
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  • sodafountansodafountan Posts: 38Member
    It could be, it has USB ports so I guess anything's possible. The hardest part would be converting the content on the disk to an Android readable format. Then there's the issue of getting people on board with writing content to a disk. There's imaging if you want the disk to run something upon input. There's device drivers that have to be dealt with.

    And that's just off of the top of my head. I think it could be possible, just extremely unlikely anybody would go to that much effort to make it happen.
  • Jack_McslayJack_Mcslay Posts: 100Member
    If you think about it, it could be a good idea to enable such a functionality. If it allows you to burn the game and a self-activating license on a optical media, it would solve the biggest problem with digital-only media, that is not being able to gift someone with a game.
  • sodafountansodafountan Posts: 38Member

    If you think about it, it could be a good idea to enable such a functionality. If it allows you to burn the game and a self-activating license on a optical media, it would solve the biggest problem with digital-only media, that is not being able to gift someone with a game.

    It also opens up the pirating can of worms. Pirating games on a disc? Now that's old school.

  • SueseSuese Posts: 120Member
    Yeah, and just look at Sega.. Sega add-ons did so well.
    Probably best to just hook up an external hard drive instead.
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  • Jack_McslayJack_Mcslay Posts: 100Member

    It also opens up the pirating can of worms. Pirating games on a disc? Now that's old school.

    You seem to be forgetting OUYA games are free to play, thus a "pirated" game will do nothing that you already can't with the downloadable version

  • XaakXaak Posts: 68Member

    It also opens up the pirating can of worms. Pirating games on a disc? Now that's old school.

    You seem to be forgetting OUYA games are free to play, thus a "pirated" game will do nothing that you already can't with the downloadable version

    Not exactly. You have to have _something_ for free, but that could simply be a short demo.

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