Topic: huh? When did Blu ray discs become cheap?

[bobinchicago]

probably because no one uses them.  You can get a 4GB thumb drive for like $8 now, why burn a bunch of stuff to one disc once?

But by the same token, you're spending $2/GB on a really tiny medium. My Mac Pro has 6TB spread across the four bays and I don't think any of the drives were $2/GB. Plus, like I say, a 4GB drive only holds 4GB. You can spend a lot of time encoding and compressing... or you can just throw something in a directory where you can find it and the other few thousand items you've got stored. 

(And as I start to see the day coming when I'm going to have to start managing space, I'm starting to think a BR drive from OWC would give me a storage option for lots of stuff I'd like to have but is in the need-to-be-in-the-mood-for-it category... I don't really need to keep it on a media server as long as I can find it when I want it. That would be a metric buttload of really inconvenient thumb drives!)

[spyder9]

I had an SDHC card survive a run through the washer and dryer....... and the card still works to this day.  Try that with a BR disc.         

[su6oxone]

You drop a BluRay disc and scratch it sure you're probably hosed

As an early adopter of blu-ray (via PS3) four years ago, I remember reading all the HD-DVD vs blu-ray arguments, and one drawback of blu-ray was that the data is 'burned' so close to the surface that it was more susceptible to data loss or corruption if scratched.  Therefore, all commercial blu-rays have a nice protective coating on the surface that makes it fairly impervious to scratches (and therefore, turned into an advantage over HD-DVD, which like DVD had no protective coating).  I've never seen writable blu-ray media so I don't know if they don't have that protection, although I guess not since it would most likely need to be applied after the disc has been pressed. 

[EdwardAcosta]

It will take around 6 months more to become cheap because now it is a new thing for computers that is why everyone is after it to get it.

[sparkey]

probably because no one uses them.  You can get a 4GB thumb drive for like $8 now, why burn a bunch of stuff to one disc once?

That would be a metric buttload of really inconvenient thumb drives!)

Not to mention a chafed rectum

[Brian E.]

haha yeah.  I guess I was more thinking of the 2TB drives for $120

[H₂O]

I had an SDHC card survive a run through the washer and dryer....... and the card still works to this day.  Try that with a BR disc.         

But will a SDHC card survive an EMP? 

[Brian E.]

I think if you're getting EMP'd you have larger issues...