PC hardware: Poll: Are you considering a Blu-ray disc burner for your PC?
- 1/30/09 1:26 PM
Yes I Am Considering It For My Next Computer
by Flatworm - 1/31/09 6:04 AM In reply to: Poll: Are you considering a Blu-ray disc burner for your PC? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I am almost certainly going to include a Blu-Ray burner in my next computer, which I anticipate obtaining sometime in the fall after the release of Windows 7. I intend to build the new machine from scratch with the highest-end components including an Intel i7 960 (if I were buying it now -- there might be something better available by the third quarter and if so that's what I'll get) and monstrous heaping gobs of fast, fast, fast DDR3 RAM. I am also going to get two 1.5TB drives.
And it's these big drives that make me want the BD burner. I presume by then that drives will available that will be able to burn multiple layers, and at 25 GB per layer there is actually hope that maybe, just maybe, I could start to back up annually or so to removable media again -- once they get the price of the media under control.
Of course, at today's outlandish prices, it would be MUCH cheaper to buy a few external drives and use them as backup media. But still... A Blu-Ray burner, a really fast fiber-optic internet connection, and good old Usenet might a way to build a nifty HD movie collection were I the nefarious type to ignore copyright laws. Heaven forfend!
Bought an LG Blu-ray burner last summer
by bones27 - 1/31/09 7:57 AM In reply to: Poll: Are you considering a Blu-ray disc burner for your PC? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
For less than the cost of a blu-ray player I bought the burner for my computer. Since my computer is also a source for my home theater, it does give me the function of a blu-ray player plus the ability to test the other functions.
In spite of the costs, blu-ray rw discs are the best method I have found for backing up my photos and audio on a durable media. Try reading that external hard drive after dropping it.
For burning DVD's (yes DVD's are still my standard), I have had some compatibility issues with discs burned on the LG unit. I continue to use my Lite-On drive as my standard DVD burner as I rarely get a bad burn from it.
Optical media for data - going. going, gone.
by Gerdd - 1/31/09 9:31 AM In reply to: Poll: Are you considering a Blu-ray disc burner for your PC? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
When I bought my DVD burners I expected to use them for backup as well. But now I look at a few terabytes' worth of external hard drives instead. It is ironic: To back up my first hard drive (32MB) I needed about 70-80 diskettes of 360kB each - that was a lot of disk-jockeying. Today, to back up a a modest 300 GB drive I need - you guessed it - roughly the same number of DVDs. Somehow I am not winning here - and by the time the BluRay disks are commercially viable the common hard disk size to back up will be a few terabytes, so I would be right back where I started. And in the long run I may well find that my DVDs don't last any longer than my diskettes did. I haven't tried 360kB diskettes in a very long time, but occasionally I find me using a 1.44MB one and I usually need to try about 4-5 of them before I find one that works across all of its sectors.
In contrast, hard drives that are kept off and offline for most of their lives seem to age much more slowly. Or so I hope ...
No, not until it becomes a standard.
by jfields026 - 1/31/09 9:40 AM In reply to: Poll: Are you considering a Blu-ray disc burner for your PC? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
What's the purpose?
I guess I could watch a 2 hour movie in my computer chair, not gonna happen.
I won't buy one for my computer until I can stream it to my XBOX or Apple TV or TiVo or something. I see no point. I already have an external HDD for backups. It's cheaper and I can rewrite / reformat as often as I want.
If I could stream it to my TV in some way, then maybe. But wouldn't it just be easier to buy a BD player for my living room?
Why bother?
by unquenchablefire - 1/31/09 1:27 PM In reply to: Poll: Are you considering a Blu-ray disc burner for your PC? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Hard drives are becoming amazingly cheap and digital distribution is the new way. Why bother backing your files up on disk when you can just buy a huge hard drive? 1TB drives are only like a hundred bucks now, and Blu Ray discs are still like ten dollars each. The choice is pretty clear.
And, with flash media becoming ever cheaper, blu ray is rapidly loosing any advantages it may have had.
not until bluray becomes standard
by davedymanic - 1/31/09 3:25 PM In reply to: Poll: Are you considering a Blu-ray disc burner for your PC? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
From my experience in Australia blu ray is only offered as an additional option [or when I purchased my computer about a year ago it was ]with the disc price and the associated charges of instalation and purchase it is prohibative for me at least.I will stay with my existing system which is faster and costs far less to use.
skip every other standard
by ancrom - 2/1/09 12:32 PM In reply to: not until bluray becomes standard by davedymanicI have to go agree with the above poster.
And standards are not what they used to be
a "standard" used to last for many years,
now with the huge oneupmanship going on between
the companies, they do not.I have taken the stance that
I am going to skip every other "standard"
it saves me money and if enough people follow
my lead then companies wont be so quick
to crush each other in the market place.
That being said I will be the first on board
when media starts keeping up (or close to it)
with hard drives.
Bad bet
by guywayne - 2/1/09 3:44 PM In reply to: Poll: Are you considering a Blu-ray disc burner for your PC? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
If I were producing movies, I would, as that is where the industry is headed. As a back-up, It just isn't cost effective. DVDs are only a buck, and within a year (or 2, at most) spinning media will be just another legacy technology that everyone wants to get away from. Plus, (and this is big for me) blue-ray players and blank media are not expensive because the technology is new and hasn't paid for itself yet, they are expensive because the 'wow factor' is still there for enough people that have to be the first to have the best and are willing to bend over and do what it takes to impress their 'friends'. Blue-ray players and disks are too similar to CDs and DVDs to warrant such high prices. This is simply gouging.
(NT) No. Not needed right now.
by tango_fox1 - 2/2/09 7:02 AM In reply to: Poll: Are you considering a Blu-ray disc burner for your PC? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
yes
by ramarc - 2/2/09 8:19 AM In reply to: Poll: Are you considering a Blu-ray disc burner for your PC? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
But only because I have a specific need to archive database projects. A 25GB BD-R is able to house 100GB+ of data with compression and two copies are only costing me $15. Well worth the price to free up the diskspace for additional projects.
blu ray
by nofret - 2/2/09 5:46 PM In reply to: Poll: Are you considering a Blu-ray disc burner for your PC? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I need a good one for my blackbird. Unfortunately, one make does this really well, another does other stuff well. I`m waiting for something with all the features I need as well as price.
No, I don't think I need it.
by kjrubberducky - 2/4/09 2:45 AM In reply to: Poll: Are you considering a Blu-ray disc burner for your PC? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Funnily enough, I just ordered a BR/HD-DVD reader online before coming here. As for a burner, it's just overkill for what I do. I have a CD burner that gets TONS of use. I think I've put over 1000 blanks through that thing. And when DVD burners became affordable, I got one of them, too, thinking it would be used just as much.
WRONG; I haven't even gone through my 50 stack of blank DVDs, and I'm still burning CDs like crazy. I think that all those gigabytes of space must intimidate me, or something. So when I think about getting a BR burner, I wonder to myself, "What's the point? I'll probably use it less than the DVD burner I have now."
Especially since the burners are still, for me, prohibitively expensive. I found one on clearance because our Circuit City was going out of business; it was 200 dollars. The plain old reader I got online was 105 dollars (both were LG). To me, the extra 95 dollars isn't worth it for something I don't even know if I will use.
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