So, you picked up a
6x Blu-ray burner earlier this month did you? Too bad there isn't any media available to cope with that write speed. Oh sure,
TDK has been kicking a 6x disc around trade shows for years, but Panasonic will apparently be the first to market when its 25GB and 50GB 6x BD-R discs hit Japan on July 10th. Unfortunately for our Japanese brethren, Panasonic says that, "Blu-ray disc drives compatible with 6X write-once Blu-ray discs are planned to be commercialized in Japan by the end of September 2008." Funny, with those
6x BD-R burners from LG already released in the US, could it be that US (and Korean) Blu-ray interests have finally jumped ahead of Japan's -- the birthplace of Blu? Perhaps, but Panasonic hasn't provided a date for its Stateside 6x media release... yet.
posted Jun 18th 2008 3:40AM
Buffalo and IO-Data have been selling the 6x LG BD drives in Japan since the second half of last year.
Link in Japanese:
http://buffalo.jp/products/catalog/storage/br-616fbs/
http://www.iodata.jp/prod/storage/blu-ray/index.htm
Shot, japan.
That whole 2x, 4x, 6x, 8x, slow increase is just a scam to sell more drives. I am so tired of it.
Well we have seen other 6x Blu-rays but this is good addition nevertheless.
Go Blu! Lower the prices faster!
Any predictions when B-ray discs will match the price per gig of single layer DVDs? will they ever? :/
Probably early 2010.
mmm right on time for dirt cheap 1tb drives:>.
Haha, best title in awhile.
I just purchased the LG GGW-H20L this past weekend. The media are still as expensive as heck. 25gig panaasonic is the cheapest at 9.99 each. 5 pack BD-RE is 50 something. I don't know what the deal is with the new LG model, from what I read it sounds like the GGW-H20L but cost the same, I don't get that and it was nowhere to be found, I did see the new external one for 100 more. Anyway...I haven't actually hooked it up yet but probably will this weekend. To take advantage of bluray burner you have to meet some requirements. Fast processor, ram and hd space and graphics card. So if you think you going to put it in and watch some bluray movies or burn them...you better reconsider. Make sure you meet the requirements or you're going to spend a lot upgrading or taking the unit back. I hope these will be widespread soon as I think the media is just way too much. But if you consider gig/$, it's not so bad when comparing it to DVD-R DL. Right now I'm buying it just to backup data.
and then you get a coaster.