Cheapest on Staticice is $97 from Megafail without shipping…
So $86 inc shipping is probably a saving of $20 or so. Not a huge deal but better then nothing!
Pioneer BDR205BKRP OEM Blu-Ray Writer Including Software $86 Delivered
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ooooooooooops my bad
RRP $369
Why do companies think customers are so dumb ?
Because many of them are.
people still burn things…? optical media: how quaint! :P
true that, but I guess its useful if you want to send 25GB of data and not shell out for a USB drive…
I bought an LG blu ray writer a little over 12 months ago, picked up 50 blanks at the same time. So far I've burned 1, and that was to test a usb blu ray reader I bought for use with a media player.
I must have thought it was a good idea at the time.
Well TBH I don't think I've used (burned/read) any optical media for a good 2 years…my home PC and HTPC doesn't have optical drives…
Haven't touched/used/seen a blank optical disc (CD/DVD/BD) in 4yrs. Currently using HDDs in my HP microserver NAS for storage & as HTPC/DNLA server.
yeah, was just poking fun…there are obviously certain times where cheap optical media is handy. like burning a relative a copy of a bunch of photos, or something like that…
but honestly, in the last few years, i have never had the need. anytime i've needed to give someone any data, i've always just lent them a portable HDD or USB stick ($86 will buy you a lot more than 25GB in a HDD/USB sticks!).
but yeah, that assumes that the other person has enough storage to copy the data to their computer. for your aunt or granny who doesn't have terabytes of storage (or someone who doesn't want to clog up their own drives with your crap!), they might prefer to load a disc still.
They would still need a BD drive/player to use the disc though…
Um, try burning a file larger than 4GB to a FAT32 formatted USB stick - you can't. That's where optical media comes in handy. (and if you format your USB stick to NTFS, it becomes unreadable on TVs/Bluray players with USB ports).
aha, you negged my joke? ok…
i already said obviously there are uses for optical media…just that i, and many others, personally do not have a use for it.
ps. my WDTV Live recognises my NTFS drive just fine, thank you very much. (not that i often have files larger than 4GB anyway).
FYI, in the last several years, i have bumped into the 4GB FAT32 limitation a total sum of 1 time. i copied the file to an NTFS portable HDD instead. the end.
edit: pps. in case you care, i didn't neg you.
What makes you think I negged your comment?
sorry, i just assumed, my bad.
How good is Pioneer's quality in BlueRay burners?
Which software is included? How good is it?
How long should one of these last?
I presume it's an INTERNAL one, so not suitable for portable computers…?
Is an HP MicroServer's CPU -fast- enough to feed one of these data to keep up with record speed?
Yes its internal. No idea on the software…or the Microserver's ability to keep up with the buffer…
microserver is ok, I burned 10+ BD-rw dl, no problem and I prefer to do it on microserver as it took me 2 hours to burn a blank 50gb bd-rw.
Blu-ray burners have been at this price point for a long time now.
Too Slow… out of stock :(
They found more, under a pile of dust.
I can't imagine the time it will take to write over 10GB's of data onto a BluRay. For $86, I rather buy a portable hard drive for storage or a (few) USB2/USB3 flash drives.
I do admit for this price, I wouldn't mind purchasing this instead of a DVDR, but only if I needed an optical drive.
About 3-4 months ago I bought a LG 14X burner on ebay for $109… The LG does 14X burning, BD-XL burning as well as supporting m-disc (not to mention having a very modern looking and sexy front face)…
So Pioneers statement of being the next generation burner and worlds fastest is no longer accurate and current…
That said, Pioneer do make good burners but as MrZ mentioned, burners have been at this price for a while so I don't actually feel this is a good bargain (but it's a good price)…
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