Re: Blu-ray Numbers Too Low To Release

"Morgan" <Nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Tom" <noway@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>  will contend your PC
>> statement though. BR is not in any way cost effect as a
>> storage device or medium for PC. Firstly, it is too
>> costly. I can get a 200gig external HDD for 1/4 the price
>> of of a BR internal burner and a BR blank disc. Not only
>> that, the transfer data rate on even USB 2.0 still smokes
>> the fastest BR readers (let alone writing data). Keep in
>> mind also, that BR does not come on a re-writeable disc,
>> so if you screw up the burn, you eat a rather expensive
>> disc. HDDs can written over and over again.
>
> At the minute yes.  But  CD-R were expensive when they first got
released, 
> DVD-R the same.  Also you have to admit that ****table drives and Flash
RAM 
> drives aren't really in the same category as BR, DVD or CD.  I have a
very 
> compact 4GB USB flash drive on my key ring.  It's the best £35 (as it
was 
> at a the time) I ever spent because I never go anywhere without my keys
so 
> I always have a good amount of storage space in my pocket if I need it. 
> For that use I'd back flash memory over any other medium.   However I 
> wouldn't use Flash RAM for a system back up. and I wouldn't use it if I 
> was make a copy of some large files for someone else.  BR is still
pretty 
> much a fledgling technology and as you say still expensive. But so were 
> CD-R and DVD-R media when they were first conceived. BR will drop in
price 
> as they did.

Don't even  mention DVD-R, and even CD-R. without the fact that DVDs can
be 
rewritten (DVD-RW), and they are more cost efftecive and fool-proof. BR 
isn't, you screw up a burn, you eat about a $10 disc that can no longer be

used.

But you didn't justify your stance of how it will be the PC storage
medium, 
I can see it for use maybe for the TV medium for now. It won't be used en 
mass for PCs (except for the tech efficionados) because it will never be 
cost efftective. Burning DVDs is still more preferred for just the casual 
person who needs some thing stored for future use or for the need of a 
little space. If they need way more, an external HDD is much more cheaper 
and efficient. If you're talking about a system backup, a DVD is still
very 
effective (as even an external HDD),  because imaging software technology 
allows for whole operatings system to be able to be backed on just one
disc, 
that cost about $2 for a DVD-RW disc, and the data transfer rate (whic is 
now up to 20X for DVD) is still way faster than the fastest BR burners, 
which still don't have the re-writeable discs.. How many people really
need 
to burn 25 gigs of data for storage anyway? They would be steered to 
external HDDs, except by the disengenuous retail outlets.

I'll even add this, that SSDs (solid state drives) will probably be more 
cost effective than BR on PC when the time comes. The actual hardware to 
accept the device (for the PC) is pretty cheap, but the storage device 
itself as of right now is rather expensive, but the price is falling by
the 
month. A 32 gig device can have data written to it, about as fast as your
PC 
can process the data, and it has no moving parts.