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  Click_It on 28/04/2013 - 10:53

  It's a shame Bluray technology didn't continue expanding capacity like they were promising from as early as 2006/07. Pioneer were supposed to have 400GB and 1TB discs entering the market by 2013, that never happened. I know BR isn't primarily about storage anymore but wouldn't it be great if there were competitively priced 1TB discs available. Back up that raid array on a pack of 10… Not to mention they talk about having 4K support, that's not happening on 25GB.

  I just think BR missed the boat on a potential market. Oh well, unrelated rant over. Carry on, nothing to see here… :)

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    muncan on 28/04/2013 - 11:14

    +1

    Ridiculously high bitrates are probably the industry's best chance of curbing piracy.
    Unless everybody wants to stream, then it's game over.

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      [Deactivated] on 29/04/2013 - 07:16

      Wouldn't bother me, most uploaders compress to 700mb movies and 350mb episodes that use x264/mkv. My tv only has 1367 x 768 anyway so it suits me fine. I think blu-ray is fine though, after the season is over me/my wife will buy a season on blu-ray if we liked just in case the TV is ever upgraded and also to support the people that made it.

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    netsurfer on 28/04/2013 - 11:15

    +2

    There are several factors limiting the success of BD-Rs:

    • Hard drive storage continues to expand at a rapid rate, with cheaper prices.
    • Portable hard disks are easier to carry (than a box of BD-Rs).
    • Are you willing to trust your data on a $0.80 BD-R disc made by a not well known manufacturer (or even a well known manufacturer with a cost cutting process)?
    • If you intend to get your BD-Rs from trustable makers (i.e. made in Japan ones), then cost per GB is higher than hard drive.
    • BD-ROM drives, while dirt cheap, are not still not wide spread enough (a lot of new laptops still come with DVD writers only).

    I like blu-ray movies and I used to rent from my local video store (they closed down unfortunately). Less time on movies, more time on OZB… LOL…

    Good deal if you need disposable, portable storage. I wouldn't trust my important data on these though.

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      Click_It on 28/04/2013 - 11:59

      Some good points made there.
      I still remember when the cost advantage was the other way around and everyone had 100's of CDs/DVDs, but like you say, reliability was always an issue and I certainly don't miss the days of having to insert 50 DVD's in a day to access a collection of something.

      I guess it's as you say, HDD's are tried and tested, we know where we stand with those at least. I have a RAID array that doubles its unit capacity every 2 years or so (started at 1TB, now running 2TB drives and will soon upgrade to 4TB units) and each upgrade is cheaper than the last. Mind boggling when you think about it.

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    phred on 28/04/2013 - 14:08

    But there is a new technology called "M-Disc" which promises larger capacity and a very long media lifetime. This has only become available recently.

    http://www.mdisc.com/millenniata-announces-blu-ray-optical-d…

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      Jdrizzle on 28/04/2013 - 20:57

      I was going to buy an LG writer just for this format compatibility - then realised I would probably never buy them lol, and the LG drives had some dubious feature that I cant remember now. Sounded very interesting though, sounded incredibly durable, and could be read by anything that read DVDs..

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  giggles on 28/04/2013 - 13:34

  +2

  Blu-ray discs are the ONLY optical media certified for backup as the data layer is sandwiched between 2 layers of plastic, not on top.

  Want to archive for a very long time and had hard drives fail before? Use rewritable Verbatim Blu-ray dual layer (50Gb) @ $5 each on eBay.

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    [Deactivated] on 29/04/2013 - 07:19

    not a bad idea