Imation brings first 6x Blu-ray recordable discs to US

We had a dream back in June that America would one day be able to buy 6x BD-Rs for these 6x Blu-ray burners without relying on a Japanese importer, and today, that dream has been realized. Imation is bringing TDK Life on Record media to US soil, marking the first time 6x Blu-ray recordable (BD-R) and Blu-ray recordable double layer (BD-R DL) media has been available here. Unfortunately, this stuff is still absurdly expensive -- expect to hand over $13.99 for a single BD-R in October, while a BD-R DL 1-pack will ring up at a staggering $32.99.

[Slappy Wag Posted Sep 17th 2008 4:37PM]

In a world where hard disks are rated in TB, 50GB is nothing. By the time they have a couple TB capacity, hard disks will be rated in PB. Ain't Moore's Law a bitch?

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 17th 2008 7:10PM]

50GB is still a good amount of permanent storage for users who cannot afford or don't need tape backup. Hard drives are not for backup. You could have made the same argument about CD or DVD when they launched and you would have been equally wrong.

Also, Moore's law does not apply to either optical or magnetic media. Moore's law is an actual law that applies (only) to transistor density, not just some turn of phrase that reflects the fast pace of technology.

Sometimes, it's a good idea to actually know something about a topic before giving your opinion on it.

[mdntcallr Posted Sep 17th 2008 4:39PM]

sounds good they are creating the blank media.

But how about the BD-Recordable machines??? i want a way to record movies and content to disc from my Directv DVR and such.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 17th 2008 11:38PM]

What's 6x blu-ray speed? *looks it up on wikipedia*

Ah, it's 216Mb/s or 27MB/s. Which is very good. With that speed I could burn ALL that I have on my HDD (not really because it's >50GB) in 39 minutes...

[Slappy Wag Posted Sep 18th 2008 8:44PM]

@ tracert.... Dude, you're a complete idiot.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore's_law

"Almost every measure of the capabilities of digital electronic devices is linked to Moore's law"

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/M/Moores_Law.html

"In subsequent years, the pace slowed down a bit, but data density has doubled approximately every 18 months, and this is the current definition of Moore's Law, which Moore himself has blessed."

And finally:

http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/moore.shtml

"In my view, [Moore's Law] is one manifestation (among many) of the exponential growth of the evolutionary process that is technology. The exponential growth of computing is a marvelous quantitative example of the exponentially growing returns from an evolutionary process. We can also express the exponential growth of computing in terms of an accelerating pace: it took ninety years to achieve the first MIPS (million instructions per second) per thousand dollars, now we add one MIPS per thousand dollars every day."

I guess Ray Kurtzweil sharing the same opinion that I do about Moore's law makes him uneducated? Shall I post more, or do you just want to shut your hole right now?

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 19th 2008 8:19AM]

No, the ones you posted are enough. Maybe you should read them again,
your comprehension seems quite low.

[Slappy Wag Posted Sep 19th 2008 1:25PM]

Aww, look at Paul, aka 'tracert'. He's trying to hide behind another name, but clearly he's new at this because he used the same email address. Why is that, Paul? Trying to make it seem like someone else is supporting your views?

You = FAIL