Tigerdirect - blue ray blanks shipping :)

[episodic]

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications...details.asp?EdpNo=2149652&Sku=T14-2272



I guess this is a hot deal - since it is the first I've seen.

 

[funboy6942]

OMG good thing it is a re-writable. Thats freakin expensive!

 

[middlehead]

Call me when the price drops by 90%

 

[pioneercrazed]

Does anyone make a burner for these yet? The size is nice, but seems like a lot to lose on just one expensive disc...

 

[isekii]

just imagine making a coaster.

 

[SKORPI0]

Originally posted by: pioneercrazed
Does anyone make a burner for these yet? The size is nice, but seems like a lot to lose on just one expensive disc...

Pioneer BDR-101A - $1000 current price

It took 44 minutes, 45 seconds to master 22GB of data to BD-R using the bundled Sonic DigitalMedia SE software.

 

[echow87]

Originally posted by: isekii
just imagine making a coaster.

its rewritable so coasters dont matter but seeing a coaster from a $20+ disc would suck

 

[The Batt?sai]

Originally posted by: isekii
just imagine making a coaster.

hahaha

 

[The Batt?sai]

Originally posted by: SKORPI0

Originally posted by: pioneercrazed
Does anyone make a burner for these yet? The size is nice, but seems like a lot to lose on just one expensive disc...

Pioneer BDR-101A - $1000 current price

It took 44 minutes, 45 seconds to master 22GB of data to BD-R using the bundled Sonic DigitalMedia SE software.

thats not bad. burning dvds would take 30 minute minimum of the same amount of data at 16x for write once discs

 

[bunnyfubbles]

So it has begun...excellent...

 

[Jasin2069]

I don't think the price is bad, think of the price dvds were when they first came out, its still less then a dollar a gig and rw...

 

[Kaido]

Man, you could buy a 25-gig hard drive for that price...

 

[krylon]

Originally posted by: Kaido
Man, you could buy a 25-gig hard drive for that price...

I'd take portable media any day over an equivalent sized hard drive.

 

[EKKC]

ROFL the GB/dollar ratio is way over a normal HDD guys...

this one is almost a 1GB/dollar
a 250GB is now about 80, 90, which is like 3GB/dollar

 

[Monotaur]

Yeah, obviously, this will just get cheaper. When the first CD-R's came out, they were way more expensive and now they are FAR. I remember paying $800+ for a 2x Pinnacle Micro burner back in like 1998, and CD's were $10 each. So, we are already ~15000 times cheaper ($10/650MB CD ~= 15000x $22/25GB).

 

[0roo0roo]

waiting for the hddvds. hopefully cheaper. plain dvdrs are like 10 bucks for 50 after all. thatslike 21gb per buck so this is clearly not hot. esp when its backed by sony.

sony = riaa+mpaa!! all that evil in one company rootkit ftl

 

[0roo0roo]

Originally posted by: Monotaur
Yeah, obviously, this will just get cheaper. When the first CD-R's came out, they were way more expensive and now they are FAR. I remember paying $800+ for a 2x Pinnacle Micro burner back in like 1998, and CD's were $10 each. So, we are already ~15000 times cheaper ($10/650MB CD ~= 15000x $22/25GB).

cds werent 10 bucks each in98. it was like a buck a cd at frys. you have to go back years before that before it was that high.

 

[Miramonti]

I'm in for one...in about 2 years.

 

[Monotaur]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo

Originally posted by: Monotaur
Yeah, obviously, this will just get cheaper. When the first CD-R's came out, they were way more expensive and now they are FAR. I remember paying $800+ for a 2x Pinnacle Micro burner back in like 1998, and CD's were $10 each. So, we are already ~15000 times cheaper ($10/650MB CD ~= 15000x $22/25GB).

cds werent 10 bucks each in98. it was like a buck a cd at frys. you have to go back years before that before it was that high.

Yeah, you're right. I meant to say in the 1996 era. And, the price ratio is only about 17.5:1 (in favor of the Blue Ray discs) - and that's really comparing the earliest CD-R's (many $1,000's; much like the first DVD-R was $5,000 or so).

Still, I'll be all over this in a couple of years.

 

[superHARD]

Originally posted by: bunnyfubbles
So it has begun...excellent...

Just what I was thinking

 

[50]

Anyone know are blu-ray discs and hd-dvd's as prone to scratching (I thought I remember hearing an article about a new technology used for next gen media that made discs less scratchable)? Also do they have the same shelf life as dvd's?

 

[moonboy403]

it's actually not that bad considering that it has 25GB and just came out

it's much much per than cdrw if you're counting $/GB

 

[Brainonska511]

I wouldn't bother. I don't even use DVD-Rs yet.

 

[phenderson]

shucks, think about how much the initial cost will be for the 50GB Blu-Ray Disks.

 

[SKORPI0]

Originally posted by: 50
Anyone know are blu-ray discs and hd-dvd's as prone to scratching ?

Durabis

Technology that Redefines Optical MediaCreated from the words "durability" and "shield," DURABIS (pronounced DURE-UH-BIS) makes discs more durable and reliable by greatly enhancing resistance to scratches, smudges (particularly from fingerprints)and dust adherence.