Blu-Ray Burner just $698.99

[conehead433]

I can remember moving from 8-track to cassette. I'll wait for a combo HD-DVD/Blu-Ray player/ burner for < $100. It may never happen, but I don't really need one, I don't madly desire one either. Something will come along that will be much better before then probably.

 

[tfinch2]

I can't believe that it has an IDE interface. For that much it better make me dinner with a happy ending.

 

[conehead433]

Saw this quote in a thread over at avsforum.com and found it most amusing as it relates to this thread:

"I for one have been wanting to buy a BluRay drive for my PC just to watch High Def movies! But there?s actually three major factors of why I can?t at the moment. The first being that my monitor is not HDCP compliant (HDCP is Intel?s gay way of screwing us, and making more money. Essentially it?s a copy protection scheme that requires the display and the device to have an HDCP chip that communicates between each other and if the codes match, the video will play, if not, it?ll dumb down the resolution to like 540p!), and if I wanted to upgrade my monitor, it?d cost me $700+ (gg no re). Second, my video card is not HDCP compliant (ghey); I have a 7900GT, and the 7950?s are HDCP compliant. I?ll wait for the G80 before I upgrade for that. Third and last is the BluRay drive (or HD-DVD drive), the first gen drives are $1000, with some around $700; but what?s even worse is, that those drive CAN?T even play movies! YAY! So I just spent $2500 just so I can watch BluRay movies and I actually CAN?T?!?! That?s awesome Sony thanks! But don?t think HD-DVD is any better! First off they don?t have any PC drives out yet; but people have gotten the smart idea (and I?m not being sarcastic here) of tearing open their Toshiba HD-A1 HD-DVD player and put that NEC drive into their PC. The PC recognizes it, but apparently the only working software player (WinDVD 8), doesn?t work with it, LOL. PC users get ****ed yet again, and have to spend money on a crappy stand-alone player instead of using the superior PC where the graphics card can now help decode the HD-DVD"

 

[saymyname]

In for 5 thanks

 

[VaG]

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
So under $1 a GB for blanks the first year doesn't sound bad at all.

Yeah, but you also couldn't get 400GB HD's for under $100 and others @ less than .25 cents a GB.

 

[XNice]

haha this is hilarious, and sony wonders why they lose money year after year in their entertainment division.

 

[SKORPI0]

Just about the same price I paid for a Hewlett Packard 2X SCSI CD Burner Aug 1997. :frown:

 

[MrX8503]

I think i'll wait until I can get a burner for $50.

 

[imported_Rat]

When the media hits $10, speed 4x, and drives $200, then yeah.