When can we expect affordable Blu-ray burners?

[Alpha]

 

I was thinking the other day, when can we expect affordable Blu-ray burners and Blu-ray writable discs? Probably in the next 5 years or so, maybe? Does anybody have any good prediction, compared to the prices we have today? I see a Pioneer Blu-Ray burner is about $430.00 USD on Newegg. And 1 Blu-ray writeable (RE) disc is about $17.00 USD on Newegg, which holds only about 25GB. Sheeesh!

[Devia Eleven]

With a logical guess, I would say that when the time CD-Rs and DVD-Rs were first introduced into the market, they were around the same price range, so I would wait roughly three or four years for the prices to drop.

[Weirdy]

imagine all the porn you could back up on bluray

[2eyez]

30 bucks for a Blue Ray disk at Staples

[Bambi]

http://www.bestbuy.ca/catalog/proddetail.a...amp;catid=26262

 

This one is $350 cdn, And it plays HD-Dvd too

[ken_cinder]

Hmmm 25 single layer DVD at $10 CAD for 4.36GBx25=109GB or a single 25GB Blu-Ray disc for roughly $25. I wonder........nope, I don't cause I'm not that stupid.

[Inky]

yeah for file backup and what not I see no reason for blueray. a dl dvd burner can be had for under 50 bucks, top o' the line verbatim dvd+r DL go for about 35 bucks for 15 discs. you can get memorex for half that. thats 127.5 gigs right there.

[Alpha]

yeah for file backup and what not I see no reason for blueray. a dl dvd burner can be had for under 50 bucks, top o' the line verbatim dvd+r DL go for about 35 bucks for 15 discs. you can get memorex for half that. thats 127.5 gigs right there.

How many GB can a DVD+R DL disc hold?

[Inky]

8.5gigs.

[Alpha]

8.5gigs.

That's actually pretty good. What's a good software to burn data files these days? I wish there were softwares that could properly split files or grab a certain amount of files from a folder to burn on like a set of 8.5gb discs.

 

Example: Drag "family videos" folder that is 40gb to burn on 8.5gb discs

 

The burning software takes files 1-20 that add up to 8.4gb and burns them on a disc... then it takes files 21-55 that add up to 8.5gb to burn on the next 8.5gb disc. Therefore, it never actually splits any of the files themselves. Do you know any program that does this?

[Inky]

other then using a que (sp) I don't know any other way to automate that.

as for software I use imgburn. its free.