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Why is bluray media so scarce at stores?

Optical media has been rendered obsolete by the falling prices of hard drives. Not to mention that, if you really do need optical, DVDs are dirt cheap and still hold an acceptable amount of data.
Couple these two factors and you can see why nobody cares about bluray or HD-DVD.
 
Too expensive. I can only speak for myself, but it's the reason I don't move to Blu-ray. Why buy another media player and more expensive media when I could use my current devices and buy cheaper media?
 
Fallingwater said:
Optical media has been rendered obsolete by the falling prices of hard drives. Not to mention that, if you really do need optical, DVDs are dirt cheap and still hold an acceptable amount of data.
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I want to back large stuff up; I dont want to have to buy a $60 hard disk to do it.
 
It's called "killed by cheap Ext HDDs and flash drives". Seriously ask yourself, do you even see people using DVD-RWs these days, let alone Bluray rewritables?
 
I've been paying $0.76 per BD-25 disc from Newegg and a couple other online retailers (I think Meritline was one of them). These are inkjet-printable white discs too.
 
25 GB of data isn't enough for my CD collection (300+ GB of lossless FLAC files) and is more than I need for backing up work stuff.

DVD burners are $20 and discs are 10 cents, blu-ray burners and discs just don't make sense for most people compared to $50 TB hard drives, $10 flash drives and DVD media.
 
rivan said:
I want to back large stuff up; I dont want to have to buy a $60 hard disk to do it.
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Feel free to spend $60 in blurays instead, but you'll be getting a lot less megabytes per every dollar spent. Or, if you go for the absolute cheapest discs, you might about break even with hard drives, but you'll get a lot less reliability - optical media isn't known for perfectly retaining data for years.
 
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Low demand, few people have Blu-Ray burners in their PC. Burners and media are still expensive, although they have gotten a lot more competitive with HDDs in $/GB and will probably surpass them soon. Until the media and burners get more affordable, though, they won't catch on. And even if they become cheaper than HDD in $/GB, they probably still won't catch on for backup. Most people are willing to pay a bit more for the convenience of non-optical storage solutions.
 
Media is kept artificially high in price as a DRM measure...make blank media cost so much that it's not worth pirating anything.
 
exdeath said:
Media is kept artificially high in price as a DRM measure...make blank media cost so much that it's not worth pirating anything.
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if that were anywhere near true then HDDs wouldn't be so cheap. Most pirates don't care about burning their movies they can just stream them and most cars have usb plugs on their CD players.
 
exdeath said:
Media is kept artificially high in price as a DRM measure...make blank media cost so much that it's not worth pirating anything.
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Even if Bluray was DVD-R cheap hardly anyone would go "omg I want Bluray drives now!" People want convenience and compatibility and optical discs are anything but. DVD rewritables was mainstream only back then because there was no competiion in terms of GB and GB/dollar thus people are willing to live with the relability and compatibility problems and inconvenience. Now? Nobody cares if their netbooks doesn't have optical drives...Me myself would love ditching the optical drives for laptops for an extra cooling fan or HDD slot.
 
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Nevermind, I see you were talking about BD blank media.

I'd like to ask though, what are you putting on this BD media?
 
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It's a pretty narrow need. Most people don't even have blu ray readers in their computer so you can't even give someone a blu ray if you need to transport large files. Plus, DVDs still store a ton of pictures/files so ~4 GBs is still plenty most of the time.
 
What is this blu ray you speak of? The common folk of this realm use flash drives, DVD's or external hard drives.... soon to be followed by SSD's and cloud storage.
 
I needed another Blu-Ray player and the LG Multi Blue writer was on sale at Fry's last week for $80. For the little extra I could not pass up the writer, plus I got 45 of the 25 gig discs for $45. It was a no brainer. First try I was able to make a perfect copy of a Blu-Ray movie in under an hour that plays on a stand alone player fine.
 
the difference isn't that great and in some cases they look worse. Largely over priced sales gimmick.
 
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