No Covering, No Thank You

[joel_reed]

Why is it that I only see pictures of blu-ray disks and machines that look EXACTLY like DVDs? Is this considered to be progress? Are these companies so cheap that they refuse to cover the surfaces of these disks with some kind of protection device? (They did it with 3.5 inch Floppy disks 20 years ago, and that seemed to work out just fine!)

Don't get me wrong, I want nothing more than for blu-ray to win the war of the formats, but why oh why are we ignoring the fact that surface scratches are a HUGE problem with these things! I don't know about you, but I don't like re-burning all of my media whenever it gets too scratched, or watching a movie that is continually skipping. (I KNOW it happens to everyone) What's the point of introducing something that holds more than it's predissesor when I could just buy a 100 pack of DVDs and save myself the effort.

I think the next format I'll be supporting is the one who is gracious enough to consider their customers needs ... it won't be the one that simply produces a cheap product purely made to increase their profit margin. (Although I won't mention any specific names)