Yeah I remember buying a 40mb hd for £80, first dvdrom drive (4x) for £160 etc. cant beleive the prices now. I am willing to spend prolly about £50 now on a BD-rom and maybe £150 on a wirter when the media drops. the prices are still nuts but not terrible considering dual layer dvdrs are still a rip off compared to single layer. But I guess thats always going to be the way with greater densities
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I would say that before Christmas we'll see many high-end PC's with BD drives in.
If they are under £90 now then I would guess in 9 months they could have dropped to under £50, which would be an appealing price for a system builder.
New hardware always drops. DVD drives didn't have competition either. If anything they will be selling more now, pushing prices down more and production goes up
If they are under £90 now then I would guess in 9 months they could have dropped to under £50, which would be an appealing price for a system builder.
New hardware always drops. DVD drives didn't have competition either. If anything they will be selling more now, pushing prices down more and production goes up
Wow, you're an idiot. Go and brush up on your knowledge of OS X / Apple hardware.
For the record I own both PCs and Macs and I love them both. But if I had to pick an OS, it would be OS X anyday.
seriously, what hope does bluray have when compared hard-disk drives. 1TB drives can be had for £100 these days.
dl dvd's haven't even really caught on/gotten cheaper. I went to ******* on friday and they sell 10 dl dvd's for £24.99. whereas you can get 50 single layer dvds for £10!
dl dvd's haven't even really caught on/gotten cheaper. I went to ******* on friday and they sell 10 dl dvd's for £24.99. whereas you can get 50 single layer dvds for £10!
Because its a piece of cake to remove your hard drive and take it to a friends house with a ton of games/work/pr0n on it ¬_¬
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Why are people comparing it to a HDD :s
What do you use a DVD-R for now, videos and archiving are the main uses, none of which can easily be achieved via HDD.
BD will replace DVD players, so most home movies etc will make there way on there.
Staggered backups each day.
What do you use a DVD-R for now, videos and archiving are the main uses, none of which can easily be achieved via HDD.
BD will replace DVD players, so most home movies etc will make there way on there.
Staggered backups each day.
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What the Hell are you on about? Same price range? PC's and Mac's are aimed at completely different market sectors. Mac Pro's use server grade hardware, which is a damn sight better and more reliable than some useless Nvidia 780i chipset. Apple Mac's are in widespread use throughout the film and television industries, even the Tranformers Director Michael Bay uses a MacBook Pro on-set.
It's so irritating when people assume that the only use for computers is to play Crysis.
Go easy on platinum87, he can't help being ignorant. Presumably he'll either learn more about Apple in the future and therefore stop "warning" people or he'll learn he doesn't know much about Apple and is in no position to warn people. Ether way we can expect the warning to dry up with time.
Different products.
BluRay is not, at least in the short term, being targetted as a cheap storage solution.
The reason people want a BR drive in their computer is so that they can watch/copy BR films and perhaps in the future buy BR software e.g. games.
DL DVDs are expensive (relatively), but the price has come down. It's around £4 for 10 8x speed now, compared to them being a few quid each for slower discs at launch.
I dont know about anyone else but I dont like the name Blu Ray, just doesnt sound the same.
Like now we say 'Fancy watching a DVD' and soon it will be 'Fancy watching a Blu Ray'. That just sounds wrong in my eyes and doesnt roll of the tongue.
Like now we say 'Fancy watching a DVD' and soon it will be 'Fancy watching a Blu Ray'. That just sounds wrong in my eyes and doesnt roll of the tongue.
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I just say I'm going to watch a film, don't use format titles.
At least, in a way, the name is better than HD-DVD. Far too many products have HD in them nowadays. Saying that, I agree that Blu-Ray (like Stingray) sounds just a little childish for a media format.
At least, in a way, the name is better than HD-DVD. Far too many products have HD in them nowadays. Saying that, I agree that Blu-Ray (like Stingray) sounds just a little childish for a media format.
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the game and world don't take up to much space at all, its all the high def motion vid, theres no issue with duplicating the world data on each disk so you can travel anywhere, but at set points through the game after a cutscene after you've done whatever task you switch disks and proceed without issue. Haven't they actually complained more about the slower bluray transfer rate on the sony than the size problems on the xbox 360. at the end of the day sony went with a low speed bluray to keep noise down which is fine, xbox went with a higher speed dvd drive, they aren't massively different on either, both have limitations to design, as the gpu, cpu, hard drive and network speeds dictate how the game is designed aswell.
as for price, dvd's started to hit i would say a majority of home pc's when they hit the £70-100 for a reader price, and you've been able to choose a bluray as optional for a long time now, only recently cheaply.
toshiba, amongst everyone else will jump on bluray now, which means larger mass production of drive parts and lasers, which is the main cost/supply issue at the moment, so that will trigger a massive drop. more companies will produce drives now so the competition between various bluray companies will be BIGGER than between the limited number of bluray/hd-dvd drives available now as so many people were waiting for a winning before releasing a product.
readers sub £50 within2-3 months max, writers at the £100 mark within 5-6 months max.
DL dvd's WERE £10 a disk on launch, now as said you can get 10 for £4-5 , bluray will hit similar prices which will mean 250gb's for £5 of disks, a TB for £20, 1/5 the price of HDD storage and protectable and portable. mostly we need some faster drives, 4-8x drives so they don't take all damn day to write
Media for dual layer drives didn't drop until people had the drives. only took 6 months to go from £10 a disk to £2 a disk, and another 6 months to go to 50p a disk.
yep, thats what i do. just the easiest way to transfer ~100gig in 1 go. I should buy and external HD really but i'd only use it about every 2-3 months
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Well, yes it is. I have a 500GB USB2 drive that is regularly used for moving data from one PC or house/office to another. In fact it's a lot faster to copy tens of GB on to and off from a HDD than burn/read an optical disc, and more reliable. For my uses, I have no need for blu ray.
Given a choice I will take a Windows OS on a PC.
However at work I do have access to and use a Mac Book on a regular basis.
My wife also owns a Mac Book.
They do exactly what they are supposed to do and do so well.
Your argument really isn't based on anything other than "I hate Macs" which to be frank isn't the greatest argument in the world.