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Is there any chance of producing a write error on those $25 blank discs?

I hope it's not like burning CD's now onto CD-RW because that's going to become very costly.]]>May 18th 2006 11:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/18/pioneer-bdr-101a-blu-ray-burner-now-available-for-just-999/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/18/pioneer-bdr-101a-blu-ray-burner-now-available-for-just-999/May 18th 2006 11:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/18/pioneer-bdr-101a-blu-ray-burner-now-available-for-just-999/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/18/pioneer-bdr-101a-blu-ray-burner-now-available-for-just-999/
Anyways, I still think that Blu-rays as backup discs won't work. A cd is a cd. It WILL get scratched unless you're very careful. As data transport discs, this is great. Can't wait till the whole thing gets cheap (enough for everyday people). As for the whole movie thing, well, that too still has a long way to go in becoming a household item. Tooooo expensive. But I guess all technologies are when they're fresh. ]]>May 18th 2006 11:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/18/pioneer-bdr-101a-blu-ray-burner-now-available-for-just-999/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/18/pioneer-bdr-101a-blu-ray-burner-now-available-for-just-999/May 18th 2006 11:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/18/pioneer-bdr-101a-blu-ray-burner-now-available-for-just-999/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/18/pioneer-bdr-101a-blu-ray-burner-now-available-for-just-999/
Would also hold out for a SATA one (which may be on this one, however I did not RTFA.)]]>May 18th 2006 11:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/18/pioneer-bdr-101a-blu-ray-burner-now-available-for-just-999/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/18/pioneer-bdr-101a-blu-ray-burner-now-available-for-just-999/May 18th 2006 11:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/18/pioneer-bdr-101a-blu-ray-burner-now-available-for-just-999/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/18/pioneer-bdr-101a-blu-ray-burner-now-available-for-just-999/May 18th 2006 11:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/18/pioneer-bdr-101a-blu-ray-burner-now-available-for-just-999/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/18/pioneer-bdr-101a-blu-ray-burner-now-available-for-just-999/
I really hope Pioneer and Sony choke on this on.
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Nero has the most CRAPTASTIC installer I've ever seen.

Unpacks cab files, then can't find them two seconds later!!??]]>May 18th 2006 11:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/18/pioneer-bdr-101a-blu-ray-burner-now-available-for-just-999/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/18/pioneer-bdr-101a-blu-ray-burner-now-available-for-just-999/
... which am I going to buy, the blu-ray burner, or 8 hard drives and make them an uncrashable raid array for the same price. Do I really need to awnser :)

Bye Bye Blu-Ray, welcome Holographic Discs!]]>May 18th 2006 12:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/18/pioneer-bdr-101a-blu-ray-burner-now-available-for-just-999/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/18/pioneer-bdr-101a-blu-ray-burner-now-available-for-just-999/
At least they designed recordability into the BD specs from the get-go, so the wait souldnt be that long.]]>May 18th 2006 12:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/18/pioneer-bdr-101a-blu-ray-burner-now-available-for-just-999/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/18/pioneer-bdr-101a-blu-ray-burner-now-available-for-just-999/May 18th 2006 12:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/18/pioneer-bdr-101a-blu-ray-burner-now-available-for-just-999/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/18/pioneer-bdr-101a-blu-ray-burner-now-available-for-just-999/
What's interesting though is that someone with a Windows Media Center PC and Blu-Ray drive could easily have Blu-Ray movies stream to their TV-Sets via the Xbox 360 as it is a media center connector.

This is a nice feature as it enables consumer choice in the matter. ]]>May 18th 2006 12:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/18/pioneer-bdr-101a-blu-ray-burner-now-available-for-just-999/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/18/pioneer-bdr-101a-blu-ray-burner-now-available-for-just-999/May 18th 2006 12:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/18/pioneer-bdr-101a-blu-ray-burner-now-available-for-just-999/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/18/pioneer-bdr-101a-blu-ray-burner-now-available-for-just-999/May 18th 2006 12:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/18/pioneer-bdr-101a-blu-ray-burner-now-available-for-just-999/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/18/pioneer-bdr-101a-blu-ray-burner-now-available-for-just-999/May 18th 2006 12:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/18/pioneer-bdr-101a-blu-ray-burner-now-available-for-just-999/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/18/pioneer-bdr-101a-blu-ray-burner-now-available-for-just-999/May 18th 2006 12:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/18/pioneer-bdr-101a-blu-ray-burner-now-available-for-just-999/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/18/pioneer-bdr-101a-blu-ray-burner-now-available-for-just-999/May 18th 2006 12:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/18/pioneer-bdr-101a-blu-ray-burner-now-available-for-just-999/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/18/pioneer-bdr-101a-blu-ray-burner-now-available-for-just-999/
The thing that will help this format take off is cheaper blanks. Once you can get a BD dual layer blank for under $10, it's going to be a big deal. By then, the drive should drop below $500 and a viable format for backing up some of our data without having to use an entire spindle of blanks will be welcome.

And not just DVD burners were pricey when they first came out. My first CD burner, which was 1x, cost me $550. For the amount of storage it could hold, it was over-the-top. I bought my last CD-R drive (24x speed) two years ago for $60. Blu-Ray will drop the same over time.]]>May 18th 2006 2:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/18/pioneer-bdr-101a-blu-ray-burner-now-available-for-just-999/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/18/pioneer-bdr-101a-blu-ray-burner-now-available-for-just-999/
I got to see hi-def footage for the first time today. There is an HDDVD player at Best Buy on a 30-something inch Westinghouse LCD running at 1080p via an HDMI cable. It was $500. I was pretty impressed.

Sorry, I know this is a blu-ray discussion, but I wanted to throw that in there. =)]]>May 18th 2006 2:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/18/pioneer-bdr-101a-blu-ray-burner-now-available-for-just-999/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/18/pioneer-bdr-101a-blu-ray-burner-now-available-for-just-999/
I read the Wikipedia entry on the Durabis coating that #10 mentioned. Sounds like this adds a lot to the cost of the disc. For scratches that go through the protective layer, I wonder if one could run the disc through a decent resurfacer (like the JFJ Disc Repair) and make the disc work again, sans protective coating.]]>May 18th 2006 2:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/18/pioneer-bdr-101a-blu-ray-burner-now-available-for-just-999/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/18/pioneer-bdr-101a-blu-ray-burner-now-available-for-just-999/
Personally I hope HD-DVDs win the 'format war' as they are cheaper to make and Sony is not involved in the mix. Sony used to be awesome but they have issues since they are producing the content and the hardware- I think they are trying milk consumers for $$ in every possible way...]]>May 18th 2006 5:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/18/pioneer-bdr-101a-blu-ray-burner-now-available-for-just-999/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/18/pioneer-bdr-101a-blu-ray-burner-now-available-for-just-999/May 18th 2006 6:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/18/pioneer-bdr-101a-blu-ray-burner-now-available-for-just-999/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/18/pioneer-bdr-101a-blu-ray-burner-now-available-for-just-999/
microsoft owns a record label and movie studio that they use to leverage an otherwise unpopular media format that they themselves created and get royalties for? news to me. links?]]>May 18th 2006 10:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/18/pioneer-bdr-101a-blu-ray-burner-now-available-for-just-999/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/18/pioneer-bdr-101a-blu-ray-burner-now-available-for-just-999/
Seriously, could you be more obtuse? If Microsoft *did* have such a record label, do you think they'd be doing any differently? Maybe it wouldn't be a rootkit, maybe it'd be some Windows tiein and WMP fun. They're be just as greedy. Lest we forget Netscape/IE and the wonderful antitrust battle.

Sony has badly misstepped, but never construe that to mean that Microsoft is some kind of angel. I can count more times when MS has argued it has the right to screw the consumer than Sony has (although admittedly, it'd be a close battle)]]>May 19th 2006 6:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/18/pioneer-bdr-101a-blu-ray-burner-now-available-for-just-999/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/18/pioneer-bdr-101a-blu-ray-burner-now-available-for-just-999/
Given time, should become just as cheap as similar DVD media is today. just as DVD became in it's time and CD before it. ]]>May 19th 2006 8:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/18/pioneer-bdr-101a-blu-ray-burner-now-available-for-just-999/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/18/pioneer-bdr-101a-blu-ray-burner-now-available-for-just-999/
At $1000, I don't see too many people picking this one up.]]>May 19th 2006 4:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/18/pioneer-bdr-101a-blu-ray-burner-now-available-for-just-999/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/18/pioneer-bdr-101a-blu-ray-burner-now-available-for-just-999/May 19th 2006 5:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/18/pioneer-bdr-101a-blu-ray-burner-now-available-for-just-999/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/18/pioneer-bdr-101a-blu-ray-burner-now-available-for-just-999/May 25th 2006 6:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/18/pioneer-bdr-101a-blu-ray-burner-now-available-for-just-999/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/18/pioneer-bdr-101a-blu-ray-burner-now-available-for-just-999/May 25th 2006 12:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/18/pioneer-bdr-101a-blu-ray-burner-now-available-for-just-999/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/18/pioneer-bdr-101a-blu-ray-burner-now-available-for-just-999/Blue Ray was dead before it was even born.
Check Out
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/0,39020351,2107853,00.htm

This is real technology]]>May 27th 2006 7:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/18/pioneer-bdr-101a-blu-ray-burner-now-available-for-just-999/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/18/pioneer-bdr-101a-blu-ray-burner-now-available-for-just-999/
Blu-Ray is in no way "dead". Blu-Ray is bound to succeed on one level or another. Sony can be assured of this by the fact that their PlayStation 3 is not just going to flop. All their new PS3 games will be on BDs. Even if their ONLY success is through these games, it is still success. This of course will NOT be the only success with the format.

The holographic discs are nice, but far from practical use. Also, you might look into this:
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/storage/0,39020366,39282192,00.htm
This would top your holographic discs anyways.

I also agree with the comment 2 above mine about HDDVD. It is bound to lose in this war. Keep in mind that Sony is not alone in their Blu-Ray conquest. They have tons of support, more than any other format has ever had from the get go. Here are all of Sony's friends:
Apple
Dell
HP
Hitachi
LG
Mitsubishi Electric
Panasonic
Pioneer
Philips
Samsung
Sharp
Sony
TDK
Thomson
Twentieth Century Fox
Walt Disney
Warner Bros.
Adobe Systems
Almedio Inc.
Alticast
Aplix Corporation
ArcSoft, Inc.
ATI Technologies Inc.
Atmel Corporation
AudioDev AB
Broadcom Corporation
Canon Inc.
CMC Magnetics Corporation
Coding Technologies GmbH
Cryptography Research Inc.
CyberLink Corp.
DATARIUS Technologies GmbH
DCA Inc.
Deluxe Media Services Inc.
Dolby Laboratories Inc.
DTS, Inc.
Electronic Arts Inc.
Esmertec
Fuji Photo Film Co. Ltd.
Fujitsu Ltd.
Horizon Semiconductor
Imation Corp.
InterVideo Inc.
Kenwood Corporation
Lionsgate Entertainment
LITE-ON IT Corporation
LSI Logic
MediaTek Inc.
Meridian Audio Ltd.
Metta Technology
Mitsubishi Kagaku Media Co.Ltd.
Mitsui Chemicals Inc.
Moser Baer India Limited
Nero
Optodisc Technology Corporation
Paramount Pictures Corporation
Pixela Corporation
Prodisc Technology Inc.
Pulstec Industrial Co., Ltd.
Ricoh Co., Ltd.
Ritek Corporation
ShibaSoku Co. Ltd.
Sigma Designs Inc.
Sonic Solutions
Sonopress
Sony BMG Music Entertainment
ST Microelectronics
Sunext
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd.,
Universal Music Group
Victor Company of Japan, Ltd.
Visionare Corporation
Zentek Technology Japan, Inc.
ZOOtech Ltd.
Zoran Corporation
Alpine Electronics Inc.
Asahi Kasei Microsystems Co., Ltd.
ashampoo GmbH & Co. KG
Bandai Visual Co. Ltd.
BASF AG
Basler Vision Technologies
BenQ Corporation
B.H.A. Corporation
Bose Corporation
B&W Group
The Cannery
Cheertek Inc.
Cinram Manufacturing Inc.
D&M holdings, Inc.
Daewoo Electronics Corporation
Daikin Industries, Ltd.
Daxon Technology Inc.
Degussa
Eclipse Data Technologies
Elpida Memory, Inc.
ESS Technology Inc.
Expert Magnetics Corp.
Fujitsu Ten Ltd.
Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
GalleryPlayer Media Networks
Gear Software
Hie Electronics, Inc.
Hoei Sangyo Co., Ltd.
IMAGICA Corp.
INFODISC Technology Co., Ltd.
Infomedia Inc.
Intersil Corporation
Kadokawa Holdings Inc.
Kaleidescape, Inc.
Kitano Co., Ltd.
Konica Minolta Opto Inc.
Laser Pacific Media Corp.
Lauda Co. Ltd.
Lead Data Inc.
LEADER ELECTRONICS CORP
Lenovo
Linn Products Ltd.
LINTEC Corporation
M2 Engineering AB
MainConcept AG
Mitsumi Electric Co., Ltd.
Must Technology Co., Ltd.
MX Entertainment
Netflix Inc.
Newtech Infosystems Inc.
NEXAPM Systems Technology Inc.
Nichia Corporation
Nikkatsu Corporation
NTT Electronics Corporation
nVidia Corporation
Omnibus Japan Inc.
Onkyo Corporation
Online Media Technologies Ltd.
Ono Sokki Co., Ltd.
OPT Corporation
Orbit Corp.
Origin Electric Co., Ltd.
Osmosys SA
Pinnacle Systems
PoINT Software & Systems GmbH
Pony Canyon Enterprise
PowerFile
Primera Technology, Inc.
Quanta Storage Inc.
Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
Rimage Corporation
Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
Dr. Schwab Inspection Technology GmbH
Shinano Kenshi Co. Ltd.
Singulus Technologies
STEAG ETA-OPTIK GmbH
Sumitomo Bakelite
Tao Group Limited
Targray Technology International Inc.
TEAC Corporation
Teijin Chemicals Ltd.
THX Ltd.
Toei Video Company Ltd.
Toho Company, Ltd.
Toppan Printing Co., Ltd.
TOPTICA Photonics AG
Trailer Park
UmeDisc Ltd.
Unaxis Balzer AG
Vivendi Universal Games
Yamaha Corporation
Yokogawa Electric Corporation
1K Studios, LLC
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