What do you think of blu-ray?

[Agent-X]

I keep getting into verbal arguments with people in various places about blu-ray and it's usage in the world. For all I see, it's a DVD-R or DVD-RW with more storage space. And because the RWs have limited writes to it, it becomes a stupid idea after a while unless you continue to transfer and change gigabytes of data at once.

Some people just want it for the storage space. As in, write a bunch of data at once. In my opinion, I would just pull out the HDD and hand it to someone. It seems nonsensical to buy an expensive player and storage medium when we have adequate technologies.

[Themer]

I agree, I think of it as just another DVD with more storage, just as a DVD is a CD with more storage

I'm also very happy the format war is over and we can standardize this as the new single brand.

It will be great for movies and things that would have required multiple DVD's previously, but as you said, hard drives are getting so much bigger and cheaper that using it for backups or any other similar use seems impractical and illogical.

[ls354]

Agent-x we have come along way from the block we use to watch video(tape), after some time I was getting ready to dump the pancake size media (DVD) for some with a smaller form factor all I was another pancake with another 10 years of life. Come on media like CD's, DVD's, Blue-ray are fragile scratch them and they are gone.

To be honest I want it HDDVD and Blue-Ray to fail and drown in their own blood, any body else agree with me?.

[techieMoe]

I keep getting into verbal arguments with people in various places about blu-ray and it's usage in the world. For all I see, it's a DVD-R or DVD-RW with more storage space. And because the RWs have limited writes to it, it becomes a stupid idea after a while unless you continue to transfer and change gigabytes of data at once.

Some people just want it for the storage space. As in, write a bunch of data at once. In my opinion, I would just pull out the HDD and hand it to someone. It seems nonsensical to buy an expensive player and storage medium when we have adequate technologies.

I think the title should have been "What do you think of Blu-Ray for storage?" because that seems to be your focus here. Blu-Ray is mostly used these days for high-definition movies and PS3 games. I don't see many people having a use for it otherwise, for the very reasons you mention.

[ryokimball]

In my opinion, I would just pull out the HDD and hand it to someone.

Just thought I'd mention that I do this, fairly often in fact (well, to transport my own stuff at least; I'm too cheap to buy an external... ^,^)

Anyways, I want to skip BluRay and get into holographic storage with data cards. As far as the technology itself goes, I pretty much agree that it's just a bigger CD or DVD; I also agree with TechieMoe that most people only see it being used as a means to play games or watch movies, but on this point I'd like to say that that's how most people seem to view technology anyways --as magic, a form of entertainment that they cannot (or chose not to) understand, and thus cannot harness the full potential. Sony's choice to be ...closed with their breakthrough is about as smart as it is original, but as we all know coveted technology is always soon disclosed to the public by some means or another.

[carlosponti]

Yikes how long before Fedora gets released on Blue Ray!

[SZF2001]

I really think this whole "format war" thing is a way to circumvent some movie copying. People coudn't copy videos and television shows until the VHS came out, then they moved to DVD because it seemed foreign and new (granted, it was an awesome, somewhat revolutionary move), and would never be a recordable medium for average joe... It's a few years later and players even come out with DVD-R and DVD-RW support. So now we are switching to a new medium that takes, instead of the usual four gigs of space, around 25 GB (50 for dual layer) to record, and everyone's gotta upgrade to Blu-ray burners, etc.

It will only be a matter of time before we are running Terabyte systems and another format medium will come out with even MORE storage space (or perhaps everything will be digital by then)...

[techieMoe]

Yikes how long before Fedora gets released on Blue Ray!

**snickers**

[carlosponti]

I really think this whole "format war" thing is a way to circumvent some movie copying. People coudn't copy videos and television shows until the VHS came out, then they moved to DVD because it seemed foreign and new (granted, it was an awesome, somewhat revolutionary move), and would never be a recordable medium for average joe... It's a few years later and players even come out with DVD-R and DVD-RW support. So now we are switching to a new medium that takes, instead of the usual four gigs of space, around 25 GB (50 for dual layer) to record, and everyone's gotta upgrade to Blu-ray burners, etc.

It will only be a matter of time before we are running Terabyte systems and another format medium will come out with even MORE storage space (or perhaps everything will be digital by then)...

do you obsess on who's copying and preventing copying movies or what.

[SZF2001]

do you obsess on who's copying and preventing copying movies or what.

Not really, but Big Brother certainly does. You gotta watch your back.