Japan says no to Blu-ray, HD DVD recorders for U.S.

[emoxley]

I saw this and thought it might start a good discussion here. It doesn''t affect me much, since I don''t even have an HDTV yet. I remember someone asking awhile back, about recorders for Blu-ray and HD DVD. See article <a title="here" href="http://news.com.com/Japan+says+no+to+Blu-ray%2C+HD+DVD+recorders+for+U.S./2100-1041_3-6122067.html?tag=nefd.top">here</a><br>

[ROCKet]

Hmmm ... I thought that BD or HD DVD disks storage would get a better bang for the buck ... compared to a hard disk.<BR>

[IrritateGuy]

<div><BLOCKQUOTE><TABLE BORDER=1><TR><TD><b>Date:</b> 11/11/2006 5:58:18 PM <b>Author:</b> ROCKet Hmmm ... I thought that BD or HD DVD disks storage would get a better bang for the buck ... compared to a hard disk. </TD></TR></TABLE></BLOCKQUOTE></div><BR><div>Not really. A BD-R (write once) costs approximately 60� per GB, and you can only write one time to the disc. A BD-RE (rewritable) costs about&nbsp;90� per GB. </div><BR><div>A Hard Drive costs approximately 42� per GB, is faster, easier, and virtually infinitely rewritable. </div><BR><div>The price of writable discs will come down, but people generally don''t really archive stuff in the US like they do in Japan. We want to record a show, watch it once or twice, then toss it out. Hence the massive popularity of DVRs in the US. We don''t really buy many recordable DVD players. </div><BR><div>&nbsp;</div><BR><div>This article is about stand alone recorders. Nearly all of the PC drives will be recordable drives, because for data BD and HD-DVD will be huge. </div><BR>