If you want Blu-ray *recordable* sales to take off, then the media prices have to fall significantly.

At the moment BD-R as a backup is way more expensive per GB than buying a pair of HDD's in RAID1.

I'd buy a BR writer *if* the price per GB backup was competitive; and that drive would in turn would allow me to watch BD-ROM movies.

Maybe if the recordable discs didn't cost €9 each? Just maybe?

First Called: Panavision. Like All High Cost Solutions, It Comes & It Goes.

public is enthraled by widescreen, professional theatre stuff. Manufacturers Just Won't Let It Out, Affordably & In quanties so Public can enjoy. More Self Promo on some dinky Electronics Companies is widescream,BRD stuff.

It takes entire system & desire to Pay Twice as Much for just little bit of extra view, often screwing up standard screen stuff on same system.

Its Conspiracy I Tell You. CONSPIRACY. Yet, that extra dab on each end is meaningless, as Film Production Companies just fill it with Background, as Thers No Playback usually.

At BEST, With BRD, Prepare for Black Bars, ethier on Your OLD Equipment w/brd or upon old recordings on new equipment. Its Messy, incompatible,meaningless improvement, World.
drashek