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I'm not being sarcastic when I ask this, I don't own a BR burner:

Do blu ray discs not fail when burned? CD's used to fail all the time when I burned them... especially on my early 4x burner. Even after the discs started using buffering, discs sometimes fail when burned.

Do these $25 discs fail?

Also, I know hard drives fail, but I've got 5 internal drives in my home system, one external, and two hard drives in each the two servers I run. I've had many hard drives over the years, but none have failed me. Call me old school, but I'd take my chances with a hard drive over a optical disc, any day.

Besides, we've had 50gb backup's for many years... it's called a tape drive, and they're pretty fast.]]>Oct 9th 2007 11:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/sonys-bwu-200s-blu-ray-burner-reaches-4x-speeds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/sonys-bwu-200s-blu-ray-burner-reaches-4x-speeds/
You need to check your prices. Blank Blu-ray discs are about $10 - $15 each. Fry's occasionally sells the Panasonic brand blanks for $7.
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You wouldn't believe how much CD discs and burners cost back in 1991!

I hope I don't need to connect the dots for you...]]>Oct 9th 2007 10:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/sonys-bwu-200s-blu-ray-burner-reaches-4x-speeds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/sonys-bwu-200s-blu-ray-burner-reaches-4x-speeds/
Along with my flying car and robotic bodyguard.]]>Oct 9th 2007 10:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/sonys-bwu-200s-blu-ray-burner-reaches-4x-speeds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/sonys-bwu-200s-blu-ray-burner-reaches-4x-speeds/1x Blu-ray = 4.5 Mbytes/s

4x Blu-ray = 13.3x DVD

So it's reasonably speedy "in the grand scheme of things". (The fastest DVD burners out now are 20x DVD, but I wouldn't trust the reliability of those discs when read on other readers.)
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First, we'll look at it from a visual perspective. Blu-Ray and HD-DVD are on-par with each other in terms of visual quality. They both look gorgeous.

Second, both camps are offering free movies galore with the purchase of their respective players. Me and my friend each got 9 free HD-DVD movies this weekend through Best Buy when we each bought an Toshiba HD-DVD player.

But here's the problem. Hardware cost. Blu-Ray, for what it offers, is ridiculously expensive compared to HD-DVD hardware. Unless Blu-Ray seriously drops the price of it's player (and burner) hardware, I don't see it catching momentum. ]]>Oct 9th 2007 10:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/sonys-bwu-200s-blu-ray-burner-reaches-4x-speeds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/sonys-bwu-200s-blu-ray-burner-reaches-4x-speeds/Oct 9th 2007 11:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/sonys-bwu-200s-blu-ray-burner-reaches-4x-speeds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/sonys-bwu-200s-blu-ray-burner-reaches-4x-speeds/Oct 9th 2007 11:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/sonys-bwu-200s-blu-ray-burner-reaches-4x-speeds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/sonys-bwu-200s-blu-ray-burner-reaches-4x-speeds/http://www.tdk.com/consumer/marketing/brd1.html]]>Oct 9th 2007 12:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/sonys-bwu-200s-blu-ray-burner-reaches-4x-speeds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/sonys-bwu-200s-blu-ray-burner-reaches-4x-speeds/
And this is doubly important with Bluray - I'd be mighty pissed if I had to reburn 50GB of content on a very expensive piece of plastic.

How about a new selling point - instead of speed, make it toaster per 10 discs at maximum speed, huh? ]]>Oct 9th 2007 12:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/sonys-bwu-200s-blu-ray-burner-reaches-4x-speeds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/sonys-bwu-200s-blu-ray-burner-reaches-4x-speeds/
I burn about 10 discs per week I have been doing this for quite a long while. I currently use:

Maxell DVD-R 16x media (single layer)
Plextor PX-716A burner or NEC ND-3540A
Clone DVD or Nero depending on what I burn

These are all off the shelf components that are inexpensive and I have less than 1% burn failure. If you are getting 10% coasters then I suggest you either have faulty software or hardware.]]>Oct 9th 2007 1:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/sonys-bwu-200s-blu-ray-burner-reaches-4x-speeds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/sonys-bwu-200s-blu-ray-burner-reaches-4x-speeds/
When trying to decide which brand and speed of media to buy last year, I read more than once that certain hardware actually burns to certain CD-R media more reliably at the highest rateds speeds, as unintuitive (and counter experience) as that sounds. But from what I've read, some hardware and media have some good parings and bad parings, so one man's favorite media might now work so well in another drive. That said, I haven't burned a bad CD or DVD in a long long time.

But truth to WRABBIT, I would be extremely unhappy with such expensive coasters!]]>Oct 9th 2007 1:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/sonys-bwu-200s-blu-ray-burner-reaches-4x-speeds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/sonys-bwu-200s-blu-ray-burner-reaches-4x-speeds/http://cdrinfo.com for more information.

I burn discs relatively infrequently, so I usually stick with 16x or so for CD's and 8x for DVD's, as I find that's fast enough and much more reliable.]]>Oct 9th 2007 10:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/sonys-bwu-200s-blu-ray-burner-reaches-4x-speeds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/sonys-bwu-200s-blu-ray-burner-reaches-4x-speeds/Oct 9th 2007 10:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/sonys-bwu-200s-blu-ray-burner-reaches-4x-speeds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/sonys-bwu-200s-blu-ray-burner-reaches-4x-speeds/
Anyway, Jimmy, I know that some combinations of software, hardware and media work better than others. However as a user I should be able to count on the ability to buy components from well known manufacturers such as plextor, hp, panasonic, sony and so on, and have them work well with each at near advertised performance. Then again maybe I'm expecting too much from said manufacturers since I already bought their products, gave them my money and at that point I've outgrown my "usefulness" ;)]]>Oct 10th 2007 12:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/sonys-bwu-200s-blu-ray-burner-reaches-4x-speeds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/sonys-bwu-200s-blu-ray-burner-reaches-4x-speeds/
I want my 50gb disk for backup. I can archive my whole mp3 collection on two disks then. yes i know hard drive prices are cheap now, but Hard drives crash and not everyone has the tech ability to do RAID2.

Iam seriously considering purchasing a HD burner instead of a couple 300gb drives setup in RAID2.]]>Oct 9th 2007 12:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/sonys-bwu-200s-blu-ray-burner-reaches-4x-speeds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/sonys-bwu-200s-blu-ray-burner-reaches-4x-speeds/Oct 9th 2007 10:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/sonys-bwu-200s-blu-ray-burner-reaches-4x-speeds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/sonys-bwu-200s-blu-ray-burner-reaches-4x-speeds/
I'd snap one up for $199, though - maybe by Xmas '08?]]>Oct 9th 2007 4:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/sonys-bwu-200s-blu-ray-burner-reaches-4x-speeds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/sonys-bwu-200s-blu-ray-burner-reaches-4x-speeds/
Hmm, I think I'll back up on the cheaper option. Stick it your closet after your done (if your so worried about it failing!)

]]>Oct 9th 2007 11:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/sonys-bwu-200s-blu-ray-burner-reaches-4x-speeds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/sonys-bwu-200s-blu-ray-burner-reaches-4x-speeds/A year and a half ago, model BWU-100 (2xR) drive cost $750, and it was PATA (IDE). (http://news.sel.sony.com/en/press_room/consumer/computer_peripheral/storage_sol_others/release/23478.html)
This one, model BWU-200, drive is SATA. *root root for SATA*
Also this drive is black, with a sleek dark blue front face. It might look real nice in a HTPC case...]]>Oct 11th 2007 12:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/sonys-bwu-200s-blu-ray-burner-reaches-4x-speeds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/sonys-bwu-200s-blu-ray-burner-reaches-4x-speeds/Nov 1st 2007 8:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/sonys-bwu-200s-blu-ray-burner-reaches-4x-speeds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/09/sonys-bwu-200s-blu-ray-burner-reaches-4x-speeds/They also take up too much space.

Th Blu ray media seems to be a cheaper route. I'm not concerned about backing up things like MP3 collections. I've seen the 500 gig drives & I've stayed away from those things. It's not good to have all your eggs in one basket. Because if you drop that basket... you're in trouble. & how do you back up a 500 gig drive for a client reliably? Another drive is not the answer!!

I'm concerned about handing a client a reliable media that small, efficient & easy to replace.]]>Nov 6th 2007 11:55PM