When, if ever will blu ray drives become standard.

[vlad321]

Deneidez said:

PullusPardus said:
it would be good if it replaced those external drives for moving Data, as for movies it would take some time but its sure better than DVD but i cant see any movie to have 50 GB space, unless its a series of all movies released that year (Lol) , but as for games of course it will be a replacment as seeing how Ps3 exclusives are, and the fact that Blu-Ray doesnt spin as fast as a DVD , which means less overheating which leads to less worrying about console repairs =]

Currently, rewritable blu-rays are 1.3GB for $1 and external drives 10GB for $1. If rewritable blu-rays would want to compete(in current situation) with external drives in price they would have to cost something like $2.3(Currently rwbd is $18 and rewritable dvds are ~$5). Not to mention that in the near future theres usb 3 coming, which makes external drives damn fast(600MB/s, which means that 50GB can be read in 1.5minutes, if drives just can handle such speed. :) ).

(Sure there are 50GB rewritable blu-rays too, but they cost just way too much atm.)

And Blu-Rays in laptops are currently more or less stupid as they eat way too much power and you can't have that happen with laptops. :P

It will actually be 4.8 Gbps, or so they expect. I think they said Vista loaded in 28 seconds.