Blue-Ray and HD DVD formats, What’s the Different?
Blue-Ray and HD DVD formats are next generation of optically burned disks. So far, I have seen a few brands of Blue-Ray drives available for sale. However, the competing HD DVD drives seem to be still a promise not yet to hit the market.
Okay, what does this really mean to you. Blue-Ray drives can write either to single or double sided disks, single sided being 25gigabytes and double sided at 50gigabytes. Rather surprising and you surely are asking, “Hey, Mystic… where can I get one of these new writer drives for my PC and what is it going to cost me?” The truth is… I have only found a couple of website that offer the single sided writer drive and the going price seems to be just under $1,000. The blank media is $20 for one 2 5gig blank disk, (not re-writable). You can tell we are at the bleeding edge of this technology, just like when DVDs or even 1.44mg floppies first became available. The sooner we have mass marketing of this technology, the sooner the price will drop down to what we are currently paying for DVD writer drives. Currently, I found the Pioneer BDR-101A Blu-ray / 2×2x BD-R/RE / 8×4x8x DVD±R/RW / 2.4x+R DL / 2x-R DL / Blu-ray Disc Internal Writer at Tiger-Direct ready for shipment at $999.99. You can also find the blank media available there.
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