First blu-ray burner available: just $999
The another huge step to change the history has been done. Hot new Pioneer BDR-101A Blu-ray burner is now available in some net eshops. This piece of hardware gives you the ability to write 25 GB of data on single disc. It will take something about 45 minutes. Anyway, the price isn’t much user friendly yet, not many people have needless 1000 dollars to buy this internal E-IDE device. Pioneer is equiped with 8 MB buffer BD-R write, read and rewrite speed is all marked as 2x. You will probably need some medias for burning too, but the price is still high: one BD-R dics can be purchased for something between $25 and $50. The idea of burning my whole hard drive on few disc is pretty cool…
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The price is just stupid, i’d rather buy external hard drives for storing data.
If the price doesn’t drop quickly on release then it will fail as the next big format, Sony are pining all there hopes on Bluray working out as silly price tags like this is there only justification for the silly price they are marketing the PS3 at.
Personally i hope it comes and fails.
I hope Bluray survives and HD-DVD goed to hell simply because Microsoft deserves it for fucking everyone up with Vista-Only products. Yes I will immidiatly buy Vista but that’s not the point, it’s the pricipel.
just 999$
who wants one ? ill send them some :p
thats pretty expensive
no its not expensive, not for me…
Blu-ray burners for the home pc market have been available for a few years in Japan, but at 2x or 3x the cost of the drive in this article, and they have sold well. Maybe that’s considered cheap in Japan’s ecomony, but I’d much rather burn 10 dvd5’s @ maybe a cost of $2 in a $60 burner versus $999 for a blu-ray burner PLUS $17 or more for a single blu-ray disc.
Unless the price of the burner and media drops bigtime real fast, which won’t happen unless other brands release burners and media, there’s no way this will take off in America or even Europe.
CD and DVD burners both started out with high prices and now they are almost free with cornflakes. This will happen with new techologies. First adopters always pay through the nose.
Meh, wait a few months, the price will drop, and the speed will increase. I don’t need 25GB discs just this moment.
True, but CD and DVD burners were never $1000 with $20 media.
Well, I for sure need this kinda media.
But of coz, hdd are still easier.
$25 for 25gb is as good as getting HDD.
Moreover, Seagate’s 750GB HDD is selling for less than $500
Isnt that betteR?
Dvd players were over 1000 when they first came out and now there also cheap as chips. Give it time and see what happens either they will take off or will gradually disappear, but eventually they may become the norm. I would never spend that kind of money though so could be dvd for backups, for a while.
CD-players where way expensive when they came out. I remeber my first CD-player to my Machintosh Plus in the late 80’s, it costed well above $1000 (back then…) And that was only a PLAYER, not a burner… it read CD’s at 1X and you had to put the CD’s in a special caddy (similar to the container that DVD-RAM discs come with), it was a really cool geek-thing although there weren’t that many CD’s with computer stuff you could buy for it at first… :-S
I also remember a time when CD-R’s costed above $20 (mid 90’s), but on the other hand you didn’t have that much use for them… who could ever fill one?
As with all technologies, they are expensive at first and won’t become really popular before the price drops a lot. That is segmenting for you, getting everyone to pay what it’s worth to them…
A nice place to read about blu-ray is http://www.blu-ray.com/
The site has been running since 2002 and they have some info about different models. The first “retail-models” actully came out in 2003, but they where quite expensive
999 only are u joking comeon who da hell exccept those stupid reverse engineers are gonna buy these and cumon for backup data you will be needing is bd-rw i jsut dont wanna know how much they are gonna cost. crap die all ppl who have the money to buy this shit.