patatrox Posted January 8, 2006 Report Share Posted January 8, 2006 http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/storage/displ...0106104417.html 50GB Rewritable Blank Blu-Ray Disk to Cost $60 – Panasonic. Panasonic Outlines Plans to Ship BD Media to U.S. Panasonic will ship four types of Blu-ray discs to the U.S. this year: recordable 25GB single-layer and 50GB dual-layer discs for $17.99 and $42.99 respectively as well as rewritable 25GB and 50GB discs for $24.99 and $59.99 respectively. The blank media can be used with Blu-ray disc burners at the speed of up to 2x and then read by consumer electronics or personal computer equipment capable of Blu-ray discs playback. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mlpasley Posted January 8, 2006 Report Share Posted January 8, 2006 And that's AFTER you'd paid $1,000 for the DVD burner...... . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patatrox Posted January 8, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 8, 2006 And that's AFTER you'd paid $1,000 for the DVD burner...... . Well I haven't seen any official prices, but I'm sure once they become mass market they won't be anywhere near that.... although I remember paying $700 for a 1x Sony CD-ROM drive back when they were new on the market.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miranda_network Posted January 9, 2006 Report Share Posted January 9, 2006 Well I haven't seen any official prices, but I'm sure once they become mass market they won't be anywhere near that.... although I remember paying $700 for a 1x Sony CD-ROM drive back when they were new on the market.... That is super expensive! Even the 8.5 Dual Layer Discs are expensive! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mlpasley Posted January 10, 2006 Report Share Posted January 10, 2006 Well I haven't seen any official prices, but I'm sure once they become mass market they won't be anywhere near that.... although I remember paying $700 for a 1x Sony CD-ROM drive back when they were new on the market.... If you look at the last sentence in the article that you posted, you'll find a link to this. "Pioneer, a leading maker of consumer electronics and a backer of Blu-ray disc technology, announced at Consumer Electronics Show pricing details about its Blu-ray disc player for the living room and Blu-ray disc burner for personal computers. Apparently, the former will cost $1800, whereas the latter is expected to cost about $995." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d_deweywright Posted January 16, 2006 Report Share Posted January 16, 2006 Well I haven't seen any official prices, but I'm sure once they become mass market they won't be anywhere near that.... although I remember paying $700 for a 1x Sony CD-ROM drive back when they were new on the market.... Hmm... my first HP 2X burner was $1200. But my question is, what is "1X" on a blu-ray disc in terms of Bytes/Second? Same as a DVD? Or is "1X" 25GB per hour in the same vein that 1X on a DVD is 4.7GB per hour? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jssilva Posted January 17, 2006 Report Share Posted January 17, 2006 Hmm... my first HP 2X burner was $1200. But my question is, what is "1X" on a blu-ray disc in terms of Bytes/Second? Same as a DVD? Or is "1X" 25GB per hour in the same vein that 1X on a DVD is 4.7GB per hour? My first 2X HP was in the $400 range. And, about $5.00 per disc. 1X on a blue ray = 36Mbps. As with CD and DVD recorders they are releasing them at a lower speed with the intentention of increasing the speed. The estimated top speed is 12X and there is already plans for 8X recorders. There is a lot of good information here: http://www.blu-ray.com/faq/#1.7 one quote from that site: "However, as BD-ROM movies will require a 54Mbps data transfer rate the minimum speed we're expecting to see is 2x (72Mbps)." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d_deweywright Posted January 17, 2006 Report Share Posted January 17, 2006 My first 2X HP was in the $400 range. And, about $5.00 per disc. 1X on a blue ray = 36Mbps. As with CD and DVD recorders they are releasing them at a lower speed with the intentention of increasing the speed. The estimated top speed is 12X and there is already plans for 8X recorders. There is a lot of good information here: http://www.blu-ray.com/faq/#1.7 one quote from that site: "However, as BD-ROM movies will require a 54Mbps data transfer rate the minimum speed we're expecting to see is 2x (72Mbps)." Okay, so, at 36Mbps, that 4.5MBps, so a 27GB disc will take about 100 minutes to write. Yeah, I can see where 2X would be a good starting point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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