Right now BluRay has a $1000 ripper and blank media at $20 per disc.
That's not going to take the market by storm. It's going to take years for BluRay to come down in price to make it worth owning.
Grandpa is not ripping, they are most likely buying movies at $9.99 on DVD. Why bother...
steal for data storage?
might as well get an IPOD, just as much stoage space, for 1/3 the cost.
As a storage medium BluRay is really not he way too go.
And like gizzer said, HDDs are super cheap, and getting cheaper.
I don't see much of anything on this front quite yet.
First, for any software company to sell software, they are going to have to do 1 of the following
Make BluRay and DVD Discs. More expensive to make BR Discs, when most BR players on a PC will read DVD discs anyway. So they simply can't...
I agree totally with your stance against blu-ray.
It's like some elitist mentality out there to get blu-ray to be the number one in the market, but there is nothing that compelling for it to be, besides a few more gigs of space on the media.
Blu-Ray not hitting the PC market?
I don't see why they don't want that market. There are plenty of shops wanting alternate backup and storage mechanisms and Blu-Ray has been touted to do just that cause of it's potential media size.
Blu-Ray writers... if the readers are selling at...
I would not take what the PS3 might be as anything worth considering at this point.
The Pioneer $1800 model does 1080p.
The $1000 BluRay(cheapest so far) models will not be doing 1080p, at least in the first wave from what I have read.
http://engadget.com/2006/01/16/playstation-3-conceptual-design/
I think the comments offer a lot as well.
With so few details on the PS3, will it really play a role this year, 2006, in Blue Ray advancement?