Topic: lacie blue-ray burner

[muj]

oh yeah

http://www.lacie.com/company/news/news.htm?id=10304

[JasonSobel]

I wonder how much blanks will cost?  in any case, this is going to be great for archiving

[rowjimmy]

Blanks?
The drive MSRP is $1149
ouch.
I can hold out a little bit longer but, it's good to see these coming to market.

[sam]

I wonder how much blanks will cost?  in any case, this is going to be great for archiving

13-15 at http://www.disketteconnection.com/store/shopdisplayproducts.asp?id=350&cat=BLU%2DRAY+DVD

[JasonSobel]

so, that article says that it's the first to ship a Blu-Ray burner:

"LaCie today announced it is first to ship worldwide a professional external Blu-ray burning solution for Mac OS® and Windows® called the LaCie d2 Blu-ray Drive"

but a little searching around reveals a couple of others as well:

here's a Sony Blu-Ray burner for ~$750:
http://clubit.com/product_detail.cfm?itemno=CA1578130

and here's a Lite-On Blu-Ray burner for $590:
http://clubit.com/product_detail.cfm?itemno=CA1547042


maybe those don't work with MACs and only under Windows?  in any case, I'm guessing it won't take long for a lot more burners to come on the market, the prices will go down, and we'll be archiving our shows 25 GB at a time