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Oh yeah, I forgot about the Blu-ray burner also being a player...

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oscar

In Reply to: RE: good question posted by jaiva on December 16, 2007 at 18:24:55

I guess Toshiba being "not very competent" in the Recorder business has led to the inability of HD DVD recording to keep up with Blu-ray's progress in the HD recorder market. Blu-rays' greater storage capacity gives it a big edge in the the computer storage market, at least over HD DVD. I don't know about it's impact on storage requirements for computers in general because of other storage media technology (hard drives, memory sticks, etc...)

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RE: Oh yeah, I forgot about the Blu-ray burner also being a player... - racerguy 18:15:01 12/17/07 (0)
> > Blu-rays' greater storage capacity gives it a big edge in the the computer storage market, at least over HD DVD. I don't know about it's impact on storage requirements for computers in general < <
Neither Blu-ray nor HD DVD has any impact at all outside of the "consumer" computer market, and probably never will. Within the "consumer" computer market, the drive attach rate for both technologies is so low right now that it's almost unmeasurable.

Edits: 12/17/07
Let's not forget that this is also a huge deal with gaming - Jazz Inmate 15:15:41 12/17/07 (1)
I know folks here aren't so focused on that, but the extra 20 gigs provided by blu-ray is a big issue in gaming. Let's not forget that all PS3 games are on BD.
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- I get the impression the PS3 could support far more sophisticated games than what's on the XBox. - oscar 18:15:24 12/17/07 (0)
  Unfortunately, I'm under the impression the "Game development environment" is far more onerous for wouldbe game programmers than for the Xbox 360. Eventually, the PS3 could rule IF they can manage to come up with better development tools and do a better job recruiting software developers.

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