View a Blu-ray drive at newegg.com

[kanliot]

WHEW. Its a SONY 8X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 4X DVD+R DL 8X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 5X DVD-RAM 2X BD-R 2X BD-RE 2X BD-ROM 8X DVD-ROM 24X CD-R 16X CD-RW 32X CD-ROM 8M Cache P-ATA/E-IDE Blu-ray DVD Burner - Retail

Can u read that crap?
do you see the BD-R 2x hidden in that mess?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...ATT=27-131-034

I'm already planning for the day I will buy one of these bad boys! Mainly, I just wanna back up my 200G data partition on 6-7 disks!

[kanliot]

hey, how long does it take to burn 25G to onto a 2x (speed) media? Is it something like 72 minutes /2 ?

[phloyd]

2x BD is about the same speed as 8x DVD.

Yeah it takes a while - close to an hour iirc.

Pioneer second gen drive should do DL discs and be 4x.

The Pioneer gen 1 only does single layer discs. This Sony one should handle DL discs no problem.

[kanliot]

whooa, how did you join in 2003? blue ray is new. right?

[Ascended_Saiyan]

Actually, Blu-ray (recorders--no movie playing function) has been in Japan since 2003.

[thunderhawk]

Originally Posted by kanliot

whooa, how did you join in 2003? blue ray is new. right?

The forum has been here already for a while...

And people have been talking about Blu-ray Disc since 2003. The BDF (Blu-ray Disc Founders), was formed in 2003 if I'm not mistaking. It was in 2004 succeeded by the BDA...

And yeah, Sony's BWU-100A seems nice.

[Wendell R. Breland]

The Joint Announcement of the Blu-ray Disc by the original 9 companies was made on February 2, 2002.

Hitachi, Ltd.
LG Electronics Inc.
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
Pioneer Corporation
Royal Philips Electronics
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
Sharp Corporation
Sony Corporation
Thomson Multimedia

[mmmhome]

a good question is
Why are you so late?

[phloyd]

Originally Posted by kanliot

whooa, how did you join in 2003? blue ray is new. right?

I guess I am really old

As noted the first Japanese players were released in April 2003.

People like myself have been following the international rollout since those times.

[Deciazulado]

Originally Posted by kanliot

hey, how long does it take to burn 25G to onto a 2x (speed) media? Is it something like 72 minutes /2 ?

25 GB = 200,000 Mbits

2x speed = 72 Mbits per second

200,000 Mb/72Mbs = 2778 seconds = 46+ minutes

About half a GB per minute.

(4x speed = 23+ minutes. A GB/m)




mmmm.. I've been coming here (lurking) and mentioning this website in other forums since 2004. Maybe I should change my join date