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I'll wait and see what HD DVD has in store for us, overly impulsive consumer, before going to stores.

Alexander Wunderlich.]]>May 1st 2006 7:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/01/pioneers-blu-ray-burner-reviewed-comes-out-looking-good/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/01/pioneers-blu-ray-burner-reviewed-comes-out-looking-good/
but only fools rush in for buying them now.. I remember getting my first cd burner, 12x priced at $50, that was a wonderful time.. but just two weeks later 32x burner came out, and at even less cost than mine.. probably you all have some similar experience with thest tech gadgets, i would not jump in for this.. not until i see third gen coming out...

Peace]]>May 1st 2006 8:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/01/pioneers-blu-ray-burner-reviewed-comes-out-looking-good/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/01/pioneers-blu-ray-burner-reviewed-comes-out-looking-good/May 1st 2006 9:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/01/pioneers-blu-ray-burner-reviewed-comes-out-looking-good/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/01/pioneers-blu-ray-burner-reviewed-comes-out-looking-good/May 1st 2006 9:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/01/pioneers-blu-ray-burner-reviewed-comes-out-looking-good/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/01/pioneers-blu-ray-burner-reviewed-comes-out-looking-good/May 1st 2006 9:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/01/pioneers-blu-ray-burner-reviewed-comes-out-looking-good/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/01/pioneers-blu-ray-burner-reviewed-comes-out-looking-good/May 1st 2006 10:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/01/pioneers-blu-ray-burner-reviewed-comes-out-looking-good/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/01/pioneers-blu-ray-burner-reviewed-comes-out-looking-good/no I'll actually wait for the 8 layer drive to burn those 2oo gb disks]]>May 1st 2006 10:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/01/pioneers-blu-ray-burner-reviewed-comes-out-looking-good/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/01/pioneers-blu-ray-burner-reviewed-comes-out-looking-good/
This is one reason I'm very excited about BD.

Oh, and if you're waiting for HD-DVD-Rs, there ain't nuttin' even in the pipeline I hate to say. Blu-Ray, however, was designed to be Read/Write up-front, which is why we've got these drives BEFORE the BD players.

-Pie]]>May 1st 2006 10:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/01/pioneers-blu-ray-burner-reviewed-comes-out-looking-good/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/01/pioneers-blu-ray-burner-reviewed-comes-out-looking-good/May 2nd 2006 12:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/01/pioneers-blu-ray-burner-reviewed-comes-out-looking-good/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/01/pioneers-blu-ray-burner-reviewed-comes-out-looking-good/Being young and dumb I bought a faster burner (4X Yamaha CD-RW) for $700 and it died one week after the warranty expired.

So what did I learn? WAIT!
Drives will drop in price and so will the media.
]]>May 2nd 2006 12:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/01/pioneers-blu-ray-burner-reviewed-comes-out-looking-good/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/01/pioneers-blu-ray-burner-reviewed-comes-out-looking-good/
And I bet ya that's the one that's going win the war.]]>May 2nd 2006 5:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/01/pioneers-blu-ray-burner-reviewed-comes-out-looking-good/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/01/pioneers-blu-ray-burner-reviewed-comes-out-looking-good/May 2nd 2006 8:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/01/pioneers-blu-ray-burner-reviewed-comes-out-looking-good/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/01/pioneers-blu-ray-burner-reviewed-comes-out-looking-good/Any news on the HVD Cards?]]>May 2nd 2006 12:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/01/pioneers-blu-ray-burner-reviewed-comes-out-looking-good/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/01/pioneers-blu-ray-burner-reviewed-comes-out-looking-good/
Seriously tho, the first CD-burners were very very easy to break... the same was not true to DVD burners (altho it was true for the first few DVD readers; which seemed to have a tendency to not read CDs properly)

And back into the topic, I would also not buy the first few drives, even if I was into wasting money; media will be ridiculously expencive and the overall drive quality is sure to increase greatly once the new medias become standard.]]>May 2nd 2006 1:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/01/pioneers-blu-ray-burner-reviewed-comes-out-looking-good/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/01/pioneers-blu-ray-burner-reviewed-comes-out-looking-good/>. I've heard that even though these drives could play
>> both formats (Blu and HD-DVD), Sony forces licensees
>> to sign exclusive deals so their drives can't play
>> HD-DVD media... Could this be the next 'Betamax'?

This is a pretty severe rumor. In reality, the formats are wildly different enough that the companies that promised "Universal" drives have had trouble producing. Hopefully it will happen.

Note that there are Universal DVD-A and SACD drives... strong evidence against your license rumor. (Just Sony Hater talk??)

And, NO, not the next Betamax. This Pioneer drive is the reason: we have a 25GB read/write BD drive for COMPUTER DATA. Blu-Ray can lose the format war like they're French, but BD will very likely replace DVD-Rs as the backup medium of choice. Sony can still "win" even if they lose.

-Pie]]>May 2nd 2006 2:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/01/pioneers-blu-ray-burner-reviewed-comes-out-looking-good/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/01/pioneers-blu-ray-burner-reviewed-comes-out-looking-good/May 2nd 2006 4:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/01/pioneers-blu-ray-burner-reviewed-comes-out-looking-good/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/01/pioneers-blu-ray-burner-reviewed-comes-out-looking-good/Will realy pick one up when the price goes down a bit and the speed is a little bit better then the first generation. I guess the second version. Blu-ray realy looks good. I don't like Sony like alot of you out there but I will realy pick up a Blu-Ray burner later.]]>May 2nd 2006 8:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/01/pioneers-blu-ray-burner-reviewed-comes-out-looking-good/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/01/pioneers-blu-ray-burner-reviewed-comes-out-looking-good/
This excuse that there is no room for a CD laser is probably true, and thats why Panasonic uses whats called a "two-wave" laser that handles both the DVD and CD read/write with a single laser. This makes the drive able to have both Blu-ray, DVD, and CD. It's clearly better than this Pioneer.]]>May 3rd 2006 5:57PM