Is a Blu-Ray burner worth it?

[Xerios]

Originally Posted by FilmFiend

a 50gig blu-ray disc is around $25-$30. A 500 gig external hard drive can be bought for as cheap as $100 nowadays. I think for backup purposes it is not worth it. Yes a blu-ray backup is probably more safe, but until prices come down to the price that blank dvds are at now, it is not worth it imo.

oh i agree i have many externals.. but if i want security itll be backed up to a blu ray and stored in a safe, it wont crap out like hard drives have tendencies to do so. but yes i agree with u

[dadkins]

Originally Posted by TObject

The very high price for the best of Blu-ray will cause consumers to adopt other technologies. For example, I can produce high quality content, encode it in a 60 Mbps MPEG-2 file, and watch it through a computer, using very affordable software. I would love to master the same content on a 40 Mbps H.264/AVC Blu-ray disk, but I won't because the software to do so is prohibitively expensive for a hobbyist.

My point exactly.
You and I will either have to sell the car to get these outrageous items, or just use what we can afford.

Sure, we would certainy LIKE to produce Factory class discs - not happening though!
Certainly not for me.
Now, producing a working BD that does look good is quite doable.
One should never expect a Corrola to run like a Ferrari, obviously.