| Zlejedi said: And the point of this thread is ? Besides why would you need Bluray burner ? |
That if cost reduction goes as usual for electronics, BD will become affordable for most roughly towards the end of next year and commodity one or two years later, and as usual PC drives that haven't all the extra circuitry needed for stand-alone players and recorders, will be first. Expecting it to achieve this goal earlier is unrealistic, but even more it would be to expect BD to die, as any newer removable format should start from zero and without Sony's huge investments it would struggle even more to arrive where BD is now. Plain and simple, BD is growing slow, but DVD too was slow to arrive where it's now. CD was a little bit faster apparently, but only because CD-ROM had existed for years, and audio CD even longer before CD-R/RW were released, so economies of scale were already starting on a lot of components. But if you look back to audio CD birth, it took more than 16 years to have affordable CD-R drives and, during this long process, a lot of years too to get rid of many different and incompatible proprietary interfaces for them, DVD and BD are indeed a lot luckier about this issue.
Cheap external HDDs and USB sticks are good backup media, but they can't totally replace optical discs, so the more HDD capacity and the amount of data stored by users grow, the more BD-R/RE becomes appealing compared to DVD+-R/RW. But just like CD and DVD before it, BD too won't ever be good for any backup need, we can't expect this.
