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Will anyone ever need to burn a blue ray. I back up on external HD's that are much cheaper. I stream all my HD movies from my Media center. Isn't the industry moving away from disks altogether
@The Analrapist: Half Analyst Half Therapist: It'll be good for people in commercials, television and film to give their clients a BR screener of their material. Other than that, unless you're making your own home movies to play on your blueray player, it won't be a large market like CDs and DVDs were. Still a good business to get into, but not the same large scale.
Am I the only one that's tired of the nX speeds on optical drives. Twelve times WHAT? A 12x Blu-ray drive must be slower than my old 52x CD-Rom drive right? Why not just list the sustained read and write speeds in mb/s?
@Perk-i: its pretty annoying. whats even better is the class system used for SD cards. apparently, everything uses a different multiplier. i dont know how they set it. for blu-ray, 1x = 4.5MB/s
@Perk-i: The concept of nX marketing is by the same genius who came up with the eject and load button under the disc tray. I should send that person a fruit basket annually to show my appreciation.
Now, I'm no engineer, but I'm pretty sure 12x is equivalent to 1.5 * the speed of an 8x drive. Calling that a slight increase is like saying that someone who is 9'6" is only slightly taller than myself, being 6'4".
I really struggle with the speeds of Blu-ray and DVD burners. It seems like I have had nothing but problems with all DVD's I burn at high rates of speed. I can't say the same for blu-ray as I have only burned at 1x and 2x (though had the capability to burn 4x). I hate to see these faster products come out but then take away future life of what many call "archival". Speed is great but make sure you understand the trade-offs...
@andrelix: I was slowing down the burning process on DVD's because I was getting a lot of pretty coasters for coffee mugs until I got a new system that could handle the faster write speeds. Not to say that is the issue you are facing, but thought I would pass along that useless information.
@Mike Zuniga: That was Unexpected: You know, about an hour ago I was looking at blu-ray burners and then suddenly thought: "When would I ever, ever need to burn a blu-ray disk?" The answer was, of course, never. So I'm thinking at this point I'll just get a bd reader.
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Like, how long to burn a blu-ray in 8x and 12x?
I want one of those, but still waiting for the prices to drop, specially the blank disc prices.
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The cost of the burners (which still are over $200) and the cost/availability of the media (ie: high and rare).
When you can get a DVD burner for $26 and 4.2GB for $0.25 or less... it's hard to justify the extra cost.
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Why do you need a blu-ray burner in your PC?
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