Alpha Posted April 13, 2008 Share Posted April 13, 2008 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devia Eleven Posted April 13, 2008 Share Posted April 13, 2008 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weirdy Posted April 13, 2008 Share Posted April 13, 2008 imagine all the porn you could back up on bluray Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2eyez Posted April 13, 2008 Share Posted April 13, 2008 30 bucks for a Blue Ray disk at Staples Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bambi Posted April 13, 2008 Share Posted April 13, 2008 http://www.bestbuy.ca/catalog/proddetail.a...amp;catid=26262 This one is $350 cdn, And it plays HD-Dvd too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ken_cinder Posted April 14, 2008 Share Posted April 14, 2008 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inky Posted April 14, 2008 Share Posted April 14, 2008 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpha Posted April 14, 2008 Author Share Posted April 14, 2008 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inky Posted April 14, 2008 Share Posted April 14, 2008 8.5gigs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpha Posted April 14, 2008 Author Share Posted April 14, 2008 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inky Posted April 14, 2008 Share Posted April 14, 2008 other then using a que (sp) I don't know any other way to automate that.as for software I use imgburn. its free. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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