When will we see affordable Blu-Ray Burners for PC?

[amol]

By affordable, possibly, < $150 at first?

 

[SynthDude2001]

Someone in the OT forum was saying something like they'll be $250 at introduction, which I think is pretty reasonable. They could have just been making sh¡t up, but if that's true, I'd buy one the moment they're on the market.

 

[amol]

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001
Someone in the OT forum was saying something like they'll be $250 at introduction, which I think is pretty reasonable. They could have just been making sh¡t up, but if that's true, I'd buy one the moment they're on the market.

yeah, but how much would Blu-Ray media cost?

 

[SynthDude2001]

Originally posted by: Amol

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001
Someone in the OT forum was saying something like they'll be $250 at introduction, which I think is pretty reasonable. They could have just been making sh¡t up, but if that's true, I'd buy one the moment they're on the market.

yeah, but how much would Blu-Ray media cost?

If DVD+R DL media is any indication of the future.....$40 per disc.

 

[amol]

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001

Originally posted by: Amol

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001
Someone in the OT forum was saying something like they'll be $250 at introduction, which I think is pretty reasonable. They could have just been making sh¡t up, but if that's true, I'd buy one the moment they're on the market.

yeah, but how much would Blu-Ray media cost?

If DVD+R DL media is any indication of the future.....$40 per disc.

$40 for 30GB?



sign me up!

 

[Bateluer]

To answer your question: When the MPAA ceases their BS obstructions to the BD/HD burners. I've got over 600GB worth of HDD space on this machine, do you have any idea how many CDs and/or DVDs that'd take to back up? Then there's the whole time consumed issue. It'd take any entire weekend to backup my drives.

 

[ProviaFan]

Any idea if we're talking a few months, or a few years, before these burners are commonly available? I've a nice Plextor 52x24x52x CDRW right now, and wouldn't want to buy a DVD+-RW (which I was planning to do otherwise) if Blu-ray burners will be out in a couple of months.

 

[Cheesetogo]

Originally posted by: Bateluer
To answer your question: When the MPAA ceases their BS obstructions to the BD/HD burners. I've got over 600GB worth of HDD space on this machine, do you have any idea how many CDs and/or DVDs that'd take to back up? Then there's the whole time consumed issue. It'd take any entire weekend to backup my drives.

What does the MPAA have to do with blue ray?

 

[RobCur]

Originally posted by: Bateluer
To answer your question: When the MPAA ceases their BS obstructions to the BD/HD burners. I've got over 600GB worth of HDD space on this machine, do you have any idea how many CDs and/or DVDs that'd take to back up? Then there's the whole time consumed issue. It'd take any entire weekend to backup my drives.

That's BS my friend 600gb does not take a week. asdfjk;lk
8x = 10min per 4.7gb about 25gb per hour
do that 10 hours a day and it should take 2 1/2 days at most, you're just lazy is all.
HD stinks for data backup, you just might end up losing all of it if you're not an eager beaver.

Good day to you.

 

[Bar81]

It's the media cost that will be the problem. It's just going to make ZERO economic sense to go Blu-ray recorder plus media when a solid burner plus single layer media is going to cost a fraction of the former's total cost (not to mention since most people already have DVD burners that are interested in Blu-Ray in reality there is no burner cost for the single layer media option, only blank DVD+Rs for pennies a piece)

For example, given your 600GB. Assuming you're getting good media for about 50 cents/pice. For 600 GB, you'd need about 140 discs, let's say 150 as you won't be filling every disc to the brim. You're looking at a total cost of $75. End of story. For blu-ray you're looking at, best case scenario, $250 for the burner, plus a minimum of $1 per GB for blu-ray media (in the best case scenario but will likely be more due to costs of manufacture) so you're looking at another $600 assuming you're filling every disc to the brim (which won't happen).

So best case scenario for your backup is:

$75 for DVD+R

$850+ for Blu-ray

Gee, I wonder what makes more sense (and NO, no time saving in the world is going to justify $775+ of wasted money) Blu-ray recording=DOA