BD-ROM drive output accelerates
Burner on the back seat
WITH THE FAUX BATTLE of HD disks over, Taiwanese manufacturing powerhouses are beginning to pump up the volume on BD-ROM drives, Digitimes notes.
It says the launch Sony's first BD-ROM drive in Taiwan, the BDU-X10S, has persuaded the Taiwanese that BD-ROM drives will be this year's favourite drive format.
The ROM drives are far cheaper to produce than rewritable drives, the paper reasons, suggesting that the facility to use HD content on PCs will become a selling point. Whether users will sacrifice the luxury of burning discs is another matter, however.
Pioneer, Hewlett-Packard, Acer and Asustek all plan to offer BD-ROM machines this year, according to Digitimes' sources. µ
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Come on
Quote, "Whether users will sacrifice the luxury of burning discs is another matter, however"Wake up Inquirer, these will come in as second drives. You can buy DVD burner drives for $20 US now so to try and say we will have to choose between them is ludicrous.
Later as the Blue Ray drops in price they will possibly be affordable for a single hybrid BD drive burner. That will be interesting because of the different laser tech in each drive but my PS3 plays DVD and PS2 stuff just fine.
Funny how when I turn on private browsing in Safari this site refreshes real fast otherwise it is slow as this site tries to get info from my machine.
discs? who needs 'em
But seriously. Terabyte drives are cheap as chips these, and when I need more storage I get another one. Looking at cost per gigabyte, those discs will have get seriously cheap before becoming a viable option. And the tb hard-drive is portable and plugs into bogstandard usb that virtually everything on the planet has. When I need even more portable storage a memory stick beats a disc anytime. If I want to play back a video on my telly there is now plenty of little boxes that will ease the burden, or a simple dvi->hdmi adapter. Back in the day when 40 gb hds were considered huge I was burning backups on discs, but it's been quite a while since I did that. Now my backups are made to other hard drives. So I'm thinking, BD-ROM will be just fine, I doubt I will ever feel the need to burn discs again.No
In what way was the battle 'faux'? Both Toshiba and Sony were in it for real, and Toshiba has lost 100's millions of dollars out of the deal. Doesn't sound like a fake fight to me.@Tuco
It is fake in the fact that even though Blu-ray "won", still no one really cares.Big T didn't grease enough
If Toshiba had dropped TW more payola then we would be HD and not BR . Although I think BR has a better picture than HD, I don't like the back room buy out . But sony has always been like that