When, if ever will blu ray drives become standard.

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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

I hate discs personally, but we both know that when diode prices come down you won't be able to get a laptop with a dvd drive. Just bought an asus (no BD) and I noticed in my searches that the readers have already purcolated down to the 1200-1300 range laptops.

Also, I remain skeptical of those usb 3 numbers. Usb 2 operates nowhere near it's theoretical limit thanks to crappy controllers on pretty much every system. Poor latency, long waits for the cpu to intervene after the buffer is full, and universally crappy drivers make it a horrible choice compared to firewire or eSata. A month ago I dd'ed 750 gigs to one of my usb 2 movie drives...... days