Blu-ray On PCs - Why?

I have 8 1TB HDDs of data. How long do you think it would take to do the initial upload to an online backup site at Comcast’s 128KB/S upload rate? The obviously least expensive and fastest backup solution is to back them up to eight more 1TB HDDs, and alternate that backup between it and a third set of 8 1 TB HDDs. In the background as I have time and inclination I back up static data to a (lot of) 50GB BR-R’s using two BR-R drives in one of my PCs; I need an automatic changer but they are really big bucks. I also use BD-R’s for smaller data sets, including iPod movies, eBooks, etc.

I have to agree. Despite having an HDTV for a dew years now only recently have I considered a blu-ray player to replace my three year old DVD player. On the computer side I see no need for it when I can carry over 320GB of storage in my pocket.

I don’t understand why I am seeing posts like this on the internet, DVD was exactly the same, the only difference between dvd and blu-ray is that people were more informed about blu-ray right from the beginning. DVD was different it was out for awhile before people started to know about it, and people only started to know about it when the price of the players and dvds started coming down. The first DVD players sucked bad back then as well. I remember having our first JVC dvd player, costs 400 dollars or something. It so bad compared to our cheap 49 dollar no name brand dvd player we picked up.

Also, the financial crisis doesn’t help but I wouldn’t say it plays a huge role.

If any one thought blu-ray sales were going to be like the HD tv well they are just stupid. But before I stop, HD tvs were the same as well. As soon as they became in reach for lets say 20% of people in developed countries people went and bought it, then tv manufactures were like ok now there is a market lets make new models. So you started seeing new and new 1080P models, then they came low enough and more people started getting them. Then their next door neighbor.

I give blu-ray another 1 or 2 years and you will see them every where.

The fact that it was included in a gaming system should indicate that while movies are indeed the draw as your article indicated, it very well may eventually become a gaming standard to. As a standard it won’t have to compete with any other types of media as you will either have equipment to support it or you won’t be able to use it. If someone comes home from the video shop with a Blue Ray Disk enough times and has to go back to get a DVD cost is going to be a factor that will loose out to necessity.
For system builders who prefer not to take short cuts and adopt future trends before they become necessities, they’re adding them to new builds now.

if you have 8 TB of data that needs backing up, either you are using it for business (and not sure what would even take up that unless it’s a massive amount of raw video) in which case, there are options, that are expensive, but would be considered worth it.
or you are one of the people who I’ve seen who downloads everything they can, lots of movies, tens of thousands of songs, software suites etc, to the point there’s no way it’s all even being used, aside from the fact that it’s illegal, and a massive amount of evidence of pirating.