should i wait for blu-ray or buy my dvd burner now.

[dajaga]

topic. i just dot feel like wasting money.

[w00tski]

The question is whether you need it or not. Blu-Ray IMO is what dvd is to CD, another MAJOR development, and since current players wont play BLU-RAY, (IE you need to buy hardware that supports this technology) the question is really if you need a dvd writer? If you are worried about price, just give it a few more months till writers fall into your price range.

[orbital517]

I really don't think blueray technology is going to catch on within the next 5 years or so (or maybe ever). It sounds like it's great technology, and maybe it will be the "next big thing", but I don't think that the normal DVD format is going to die that fast. I actually think it's going to be the next "mini-disk".

[jwsons]

They already sold on the market the blue ray DVD disk. The price I saw is US$70.oo and the brand is Toshiba. SONY promise will alunch DVD Player w/ bue-ray techn next year. Panasonic follow-up said they will do the same. But the only problem is the price for DVD blue-ray and DVD disk still be out of our range.
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[dajaga]

i heard from some website that the ps3 might use this blu-ray but they are probbly not sure them selves. but who knows.. so i was just wounderng if it would b a big waste of money to buy a dvd burner now since. from my knowledge the blu-ray will burn dvds and cds please correct me if im wrong.

[vric]

hehe DVD burner just start to be at good price.. and BlueRay isn't even THE official HD-DVD format for the Future.. most likely will be, but not official yet..

So we wont see BlueRay DVD burner at less than 500$ for a good 2 or 3 year (even more) Good chance your DVD burner will be dead by the time Blue Ray DVD will be avalable a good price

[Vejita-sama]

You are really looking at this from the wrong POV. No matter what you buy or when you buy, new technology will make what you have now worthless. It use to take a several years for that to happen, but these days it can easily be less than 1yr.

The price of new technology is always high. But it drives down the price of what is currently on the market.

So the question really should be: what do I want to do, when do I want to do it, and how much do I have to spend?

Audio tapes are still around. So is VHS. They're not dead and won't be for a while. DVD isn't going anywhere anytime soon, but give it time and it will be replaced.

Sort of like the people that say "I'd like to get a new computer but want to wait for XYZ to come out." You'll be waiting forever because something new is ALWAYS in the pipe. Computer wise I normally by the 2nd-3rd from top of the line (cost wise this is normally a good deal).

[jwsons]

The current DVD and DVD disks have the same destiny with their inheritant MiniDisk (MD). That's why the price for DVD player now drop I even saw it only $40.oo a DVD player!!!!! Poor me, I just bought SONY DVD RW just 4 months ago.
Look the link below, thet already sold the new Blue Ray DVD disks:

http://www.google.com.au/search?q=cache:F2Vc5Gq4LF8J:www.dvnation.com/discs.html+%22bl...hl=en&ie=UTF-8

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[Kennyshin]

Right now, one can buy two Centrino P4M 1.5GHz notebooks with 15-inch LCD and DVD writer for the price of one Blu-ray Disc recorder.

[jwsons]

Hey, Toshiba blue ray disk only 59 US dollars, daydreamer. who sale 2 Pentium IV for 59 bucks gu y ?
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[Faustus]

He said Bluray recorder, not disk.

[mmmbeer]

If you look on Ebay you can find some pretty good deals on dvdr/rw. I saw a firewire for less than $200 just last week. If you know what to look for you can make out good there. Or if you live in an area that gets Marketpro shows you can also get some bargains on recorders there. I wouldn't even consider a blue ray until they are a few years older and we see how they are utilized and brought into the market. Hopefully it won't turn into another Minidisc.

[energy80s]

Hopefully it won't turn into another Minidisc.

Why are you all bashing minidisc? It's a very successful format. Standalone CD Recorders never took off, but minidiscs certainly did. CDR's are very dodgy for audio as most CD players won't play them and they are very easily scratched, but MD's are a damned sight more robust.

[mmmbeer]

Sorry if it seemed like a bash, it's just that Minidisc never really took off here. You couldn't really use it in your car and it was only supported by Sony. I've had no problems with cdr's in any player of mine and I really didn't spend a huge amount on them either. My car cd player is a JVC and it only cost me about 150 and it plays anything I throw at it. It only takes a few minutes for me to burn off a cdr that's playable w/Nero and I can usually squeeze about 25-19 tracks on a 800 mb cdr. I suppose it's like the hdtv argument that ONLY the US cares about it and it may seem so at the time but I would hope that everyone gets on board eventually as satellite is not a realistic option where I live due to the tropical climate.

[Craig Tucker]

Minidisc never took off here either. I have never even listened to one. Also the CD's I make play in every cd player I have than includes in car.

[hoyboy]

In Australia, Mini-disc has been very slow to take off, but I love my Sharp Mini-disc recorders. I find the compact size of the unit, the durability of the media to be excellent when travelling around. I have sold many a Mini-disc recorder to local musicians, who find them excellent. One of the big things holding back MD has been the price of the units, which have been very expensive. Hopefully now with prices falling and Net-MD becoming more affordable(not cheap yet!) there will be renewed interest in the format. BTW, I love being being able to fit up to 320 minutes on a MD using longplay

[whoster69]

Love your avatar mmmbeer!

[Greg12]

Mini-Disk is the De Facto standard of Japanese teenagers i noticed.


When I was in Japan, we were the americans with our bulky CD collections and giant CD players (well not me thanks to my Sony MP3-CD player ) but I noticed all the Japanese teens had their Mini-Disk player and the girls home i stayed in she had 2 boxes of mini-disks.

[andydd]

I got a lil portable CD player about the size of a mini disc player, it plays 8cm Cds, you can record in CD format (about 21 mins worth) or as MP3 (about 2 hours worth), its pretty cool and the discs will play in my DVD player too coz that accepts Mp3.