OT- 4x BluRay burner is here

vicmilt wrote on 11/9/2007, 7:50 AM
Here's a link for the new 4x BluRay burner:
http://www.amazon.com/Sony-BWU200S-Blu-ray-Serial-Drive/dp/B000XB0R4U/ref=pd_ecc_rvi_cart_3/104-6390787-6293533

But in fact, I'm thinking the best and cheapest way to do this BluRay thing right now is to render to a 20 or 40 gig USB Flashdrive and then load the movie onto a new PS3 ($400) hard drive - or even play it right off of the flash drive itself on the PS3.

Let's face it. There still aren't a lot of BR players around, and at $20 bucks a disc, it's almost the same price as a 20Gig Flashcard.

That's what I'm thinking right now.

v

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Grazie wrote on 11/9/2007, 9:31 AM
Vic, things are really converging very fast indeed.

I now don't bother rendering DVDs for clients to view. I put everything I need thru DivX, straight onto a 1gb Flash drive and play it on a handheld device - done! OK it aint HD, but the clients like the ease and so do I.

Flash drives, cameras with SxS cards and fab encoding. Rendering? Give it 24 months tops! Hey but what do I know . . .

Grazie

Coursedesign wrote on 11/9/2007, 11:26 AM
Vic,

Good to see a 4x burner!

Now we just have to wait for 4x media.

All the disks for sale on Amazon seem to be "1x-2x".
John_Cline wrote on 11/9/2007, 1:17 PM
For what it's worth, www.tapeandmedia.com has Verbatim 25gig BluRay BD-R discs for $10.69/each and Verbatim BD-RE discs for $14.97.

While certainly not cheap, it is consderably less than they were a few months ago. (I paid $25/each for my first blank CDs a little over ten years ago.)

John
farss wrote on 11/9/2007, 2:03 PM
Your thinking is pretty much in line with mine. The whole spinning shiny disk thing is going nowhere in the medium term.
Speaking with the generation Xers I learn that even owning a TV isn't the done thing, one or two PCs per room is.
This is already impacting broadcasting down here. This year the top rating overseas shows screen here within hours of the USA, if the networks delay any longer they get beaten by downloading. Internet connection speeds are increasing, local storage capacity is increasing and getting cheaper, torrent is now mainstream. Video is fast moving into the domain of IT infrastructure. In a case of man bites dog there's a new TV program, Download, you guessed it, the best of Youtube.

Bob.
apit34356 wrote on 11/9/2007, 3:54 PM
"man bites dog there's a new TV program" that's why you need so much burnable storage---4X-BR, for all those great and mind simulating programs one downloads!
JohnnyRoy wrote on 11/9/2007, 4:18 PM
> I paid $25/each for my first blank CDs a little over ten years ago.)

EXACTLY! I went back and looked at the receipt for my first DVD burner (Pioneer A03) back in 2002 and I paid $389 + $16 for a two pak of DVD-R (that's 2 discs @$8 ea.). The current 2x Blu-ray burners are $450. Maybe this new 4x will lower the price of the 2x burners and it will be time to buy.

~jr
4eyes wrote on 11/9/2007, 8:17 PM
But in fact, I'm thinking the best and cheapest way to do this BluRay thing right now is to render to a 20 or 40 gig USB Flashdrive and then load the movie onto a new PS3 ($400) hard drive - or even play it right off of the flash drive itself on the PS3.The PS3 so far can only read FAT32 drives, so you will have a 4gig limitation. I format my large drives as FAT32 using Linux, windows is a hassle.

But to transfer a file larger than 4 gigs you have a few options, dual-layer dvd or a DLNA server similar to Nero's Home Media Server. I have my PS3 connected via a 1gig network, all my video/audio/pictures are on a computer that runs Nero Home Media Server. It's easy to setup, what's nice is you can simply stream the media to the PS3, you can also copy it to the PS3's harddisk but not necessary. I haven't tried wireless with the PS3. The PS3 will connect to a DLNA server for streaming media or copying the media to it's local drive.
I've also made this work on a 100MBS network. Playing back 25MBS video hasn't been a problem.

Buffalo also makes a Media Server that serves media over the network, this device will also work with the PS3.

So using Nero Media Server I can just render to that shared directory or copy the files there. The PS3's harddisk can fill up pretty fast.