Comments on: Blu-ray a bust on PC drives http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2009/08/26/blu-ray-a-bust-on-pc-drives/ Top Technology news Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:40:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: DavidB http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2009/08/26/blu-ray-a-bust-on-pc-drives/comment-page-1/#comment-206376 DavidB Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:11:47 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2009/08/26/blu-ray-a-bust-on-pc-drives/#comment-206376 All the same arguments as when DVD readers and writers were supplanting CD readers and writers. The holdup on consumer adoption is the same as it was with DVD, media price. Until the price of blank discs becomes competitive on a $ per byte basis with the fewer discs factor included, DVD will remain the king. Those of us who bought dvd writers early can easily recall when that 100 pack of blank DVD's was $200+, and will recall taking our data DVD's to a friend PC but alas he ONLY had a CD. All the same arguments as when DVD readers and writers were supplanting CD readers and writers.
The holdup on consumer adoption is the same as it was with DVD, media price. Until the price of blank discs becomes competitive on a $ per byte basis with the fewer discs factor included, DVD will remain the king. Those of us who bought dvd writers early can easily recall when that 100 pack of blank DVD’s was $200+, and will recall taking our data DVD’s to a friend PC but alas he ONLY had a CD.

]]> By: Ralph http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2009/08/26/blu-ray-a-bust-on-pc-drives/comment-page-1/#comment-206100 Ralph Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:11:06 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2009/08/26/blu-ray-a-bust-on-pc-drives/#comment-206100 Good, maybe this will finally help end the mindless and senseless hype surrounding Blu-ray. And who would want to watch a Blu-ray movie on a cramped 17" computer screen anyway. The idea is almost as stupid as getting a Blu-ray player to watch it on a analog or SD TV. That is if people can afford to buy the player and then the expensive discs...which brings up another matter... With this economy, some people "don't even have a pot to piss in" (so to speak) and believe me...Blu-ray is least of their concerns. If anyone wants to back up their data, you could do it with DVD. Approx 47 GB would cost about a paltry $2.50 cents given frequent sale prices on a 100 pack of DVD's for $25...that is 25 cents per disc folks... And if you wanted to transfer those files to another computer...chances are good it has a DVD player in it...chances are next to none that it would have a Blu-ray player in it. Hey I am all for new technology...but lets get real... Good, maybe this will finally help end the mindless and senseless hype surrounding Blu-ray.

And who would want to watch a Blu-ray movie on a cramped 17″ computer screen anyway. The idea is almost as stupid as getting a Blu-ray player to watch it on a analog or SD TV. That is if people can afford to buy the player and then the expensive discs…which brings up another matter…

With this economy, some people “don’t even have a pot to piss in” (so to speak) and believe me…Blu-ray is least of their concerns.

If anyone wants to back up their data, you could do it with DVD. Approx 47 GB would cost about a paltry $2.50 cents given frequent sale prices on a 100 pack of DVD’s for $25…that is 25 cents per disc folks…

And if you wanted to transfer those files to another computer…chances are good it has a DVD player in it…chances are next to none that it would have a Blu-ray player in it.

Hey I am all for new technology…but lets get real…

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