HD DVD owners will have to buy new players

[ps3andlovinit]

Originally Posted by vw mofo

Who's going to want a 51gb or 100gb disc that's take for-freaking-ever to burn even at 4x when they can buy a 500GB external hdd and copy the contents of an entire drive in a matter of minutes?

Fact is, NEITHER format is good enough for data purposes.

I am..it's more than good enough for my needs. Having a more robust archive of all my mps3, family photos, home movies is highly appealing. Right now a single 50GB would archive all of our current digital family stuff.

HDD's never get taken off site despite the best intentions precisely because they are so convenient and they almost ALWAYS have extra space to be used that you don't want to give up and waste money. You can have all the RAID drives you want - they make no difference if your house gets broken into and stolen. Family life history gone in moments.

Optical discs are easy to store in the safety deposit box at our bank as backups. I have no intention of losing our family memories as more of it becomes digital.

Your presuming too much.

The bigger 50GB was also a big appeal to me as the MP3 collection is just under 34Gb. 50GB avoids having to dick around with splitting it up etc.

And as HD home movies and pictures become more the norm those 100GB and 200GB drives look even more appealing down the road.