Are you mad that Blu-ray won?

[Busyman™]

I'm glad that the format wars are over, and I think Blu ray was the better format anyway (10GB extra for single layer is no small thing). I do feel sorry for those who already bought HD-DVD players and got a big collection.

Now hopefully the prices will come down and BD-writers and discs become more common. I'm not too keen on watching movies and I'm looking forward to being able to backup 25GB of data on one disc.

The bad thing is that BD-writers will stay quite expensive. Not only that, they will be slow as fuck.

The lowest costing player is $300 ffs.

[hopeful1]

but bluray writers have halved in price over the last 12 months, so won't be long before they're as cheap as dvd writers

[Busyman™]

but bluray writers have halved in price over the last 12 months, so won't be long before they're as cheap as dvd writers

...and how long will that be? Next year.

I think not.

I can get a decent DVD burner for $30. BR burners are about $300.

I've seen BD-R SL for $10 and BD-RE SL for $14.

I can get DVD+/-R SL for 20 cents.

Tell me how long again?

Hopefully write speed will eventually be able to go past 12x.

At the current 2x-6x speeds, burning BRs will absolutely suck. Hell, it will suck at 12x.

Needless to say, I wouldn't want a BR burner if it dropped to $200 if it's only going to at 2x.

[ghost716]

im not mad cuz bluray truly does just have better quality
but i hate sony, so much, and it all just vindicates the ps3. it sucks. sorta.

[whiteyes]

i just think that toshiba gives up HD DVD a bit early.
$ony will be able to raise the price they want.

[snowultra]

ya, blu-ray is better technology. the reason they won is they have outsourced blu-ray to everyone

[Morer]

Hopefully write speed will eventually be able to go past 12x.

At the current 2x-6x speeds, burning BRs will absolutely suck. Hell, it will suck at 12x.

Needless to say, I wouldn't want a BR burner if it dropped to $200 if it's only going to at 2x.

I made the same mistake when DVD writers first came out.

BD recording speeds are really fast, 1X of Blu ray is 4.5 MB/s , so 6x is quite fast, in comparison 1X of DVD recording is 1.32 MB/s.

check out these tables -

DVD - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD-R#Speed

Blu Ray - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu_ray#Recording_speed [The times are for a dual layer disc]

[mr. nails]

microsoft just jumped on board... well, soon i think.

Microsoft to use Blu-ray

lol, now it's truly over!

[Busyman™]

Hopefully write speed will eventually be able to go past 12x.

At the current 2x-6x speeds, burning BRs will absolutely suck. Hell, it will suck at 12x.

Needless to say, I wouldn't want a BR burner if it dropped to $200 if it's only going to at 2x.

I made the same mistake when DVD writers first came out.

BD recording speeds are really fast, 1X of Blu ray is 4.5 MB/s , so 6x is quite fast, in comparison 1X of DVD recording is 1.32 MB/s.

check out these tables -

DVD - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD-R#Speed

Blu Ray - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu_ray#Recording_speed [The times are for a dual layer disc]

Good point. I guess it would have to be since a movie on BR is much bigger.

I'm not getting even a 3rd gen BD writer. I'll wait till it gets to at least 8x before I think about it.

[mr. nails]

I'll wait till it gets to at least 8x before I think about it.

i 2nd that motion.