Blu Ray as standard drive

Labarum

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No the battle is won, how long before we see Blu Ray as the standard drive in a PC? Will Apple make the jump first?

But maybe a Blu Ray writer is along way off.

And let hope prices fall fast.
 
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I dunno, you can get a writer for ~£150... I don't think it'll be long before it drops. It doesn't feel that long ago when DVD's were new and a writer was about £400. I remember seeing them on my mates Dads trade list and thinking "I wish I could have one of those - 4.5gb on a single disk! Woah!" :eek:

I give it 2 years maximum until they appear in almost every new PC...
 
How much on a single BD? Is it like a HDD size? I think it wont be much more than a year, when I get a job I'll get one so I can buy BD instead of DVD :D, its nice that BD won over HDDVD :D:D.
 
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A blu-ray disk can have 25GB of data on a ~£10 disk, but 50GB data on a ~£50 disk... basically, it's a complete rip-off. I can't see any reason to buy them, especially at those prices!
 
Labarum said:
Oh Dear. War is about the break out!
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The only apple I own is the one in the fruit bowl, I just want to know why Apple sucks.

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A blu-ray disk can have 25GB of data on a ~£10 disk, but 50GB data on a ~£50 disk... basically, it's a complete rip-off. I can't see any reason to buy them, especially at those prices!
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I'll have 150gb worth of disks for £50 please :D, nah I'd rather get a 320GB HDD for that lol..
 
BD media is too expensive right now but just give it time. I remember paying £270 for my 2x CD writer back in 1997 or 1998, I forget which, and the discs were anything from £3 to £5 each. Now you can get a damn spindle of 50 discs for that.

I also remember paying £320 for my Pioneer 2x DVD writer back in 2003 I believe, maybe even 2002. I paid £80 for 100 2x discs (which were dodgy too - hardly any of them work today) whereas for £80, you can now get 250 discs.

BD writers are already pretty acceptably priced at £170 ish but give it a year or two and they'll be cheaper and more importantly, BD media will be reasonably priced too.
 
willhub said:
The only apple I own is the one in the fruit bowl, I just want to know why Apple sucks.
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just go compare an apple mac with a pc from OCUK, with same price range..

then compare mac os with windows XP or vista, for starters apple mouse have no right click, as far as i know, that alone makes it stupid, dont even need to look at the other things

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You're still a noob, so most will let that slide. Just try and be more contructive in the future yeah?
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noob in what sense, posts or knowledge, and that was being constructive, ie warning people about mac, and giving a good guess at when blu ray will be standard


and regarding BD, i think the most important thing is the price of the disks, i mean spend 180 on a RW but then if you use 100 disks it will cost you 1000 pounds!!!!!!!, i wouldnt pay more then 150 for 100 blu-ray disks
 
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Phemo said:
BD media is too expensive right now but just give it time. I remember paying £270 for my 2x CD writer back in 1997 or 1998, I forget which, and the discs were anything from £3 to £5 each. Now you can get a damn spindle of 50 discs for that.

I also remember paying £320 for my Pioneer 2x DVD writer back in 2003 I believe, maybe even 2002. I paid £80 for 100 2x discs (which were dodgy too - hardly any of them work today) whereas for £80, you can now get 250 discs.

BD writers are already pretty acceptably priced at £170 ish but give it a year or two and they'll be cheaper and more importantly, BD media will be reasonably priced too.
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That sounds almost exactly like what i paid!
 
nothing to stress about here, just buy one when they're <£30. Only seems like yesterday that DVD writer drives dropped to £199.

Having said that I still remember the HD £1 = 1MB being reached! .... that 170mb HD sure was a bargain.....

and as far as PC data storage goes, I don't see why 25gig is so exciting. When CD-R first started to surface you were lucky if you had a hardrive the capacity of a CD, so it was quite a big thing
 
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BD discs will start to be made with a cheaper dye mixture (theres another post on here somewhere) which should bring their price down in the not too distant future!!!
 
i think pc games would be a while of if they do come as that is forcing everyone to buy a blu-ray rom for the pc,and lots of people will not do that
 
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i think pc games would be a while of if they do come as that is forcing everyone to buy a blu-ray rom for the pc,and lots of people will not do that
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But because of the way PC games work, it's not too much of an issue - we can have multiple DVD's and just swap them around whilst installing, whereas on consoles it matters more, as having to swap disks mid-game doesn't seem like something developers want to do... So yeah I agree that Blu-Ray is a while off before it becomes required. I think at most they'll have a Blu-Ray version and a multiple DVD version, like Doom 3 and The Sims 2 did with CD's and DVD's.

That was one of the GTA4 developers gripes with the xbox 360 - fitting it onto a DVD. Imagine having to swap disks when you tried to drive to a certain part of the island!
 
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