blue ray

g25racer · 03-29-2008, 08:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Quick69GTO

It won't take as long as you think.

Thats like saying SSD's will be $200. LOL Maybe in about 20years or so.

PabloTeK · 03-29-2008, 10:50 PM

Actually SSD's are getting cheaper very quickly because in mobile devices such as UMPC's, small laptops and even the iPod Touch power, noise, durability and weight are concerns and the SSD out-does a mechanical drive in all of these ways and these devices are desirable and with many producers prices have to be low.

Blu-Ray is different, because it's now in a monopolistic position in the HD market prices can go up or down as much as they want and people will buy it.

g25racer · 03-30-2008, 04:17 AM

The cheapest i saw a 64gb ssd for $900!

PunterCam · 03-30-2008, 12:49 PM

It'll all happen much quicker than we expect I reckon, certainly Solid state h/d's. They will be the standard with 4-5 years at the latest, and by then they will actually be taking advantage of their extra speed (and maybe something will actually manage to to near PATAs limits, never mind SATA). Blu-ray though, I still dunno. People will only buy them for home use if they're cheap and when their dvd player has broken (the majority) and if it comes down to a £30 dvd player and a £60 blu-ray, people are gonna buy dvd.

Quentin_T · 03-31-2008, 02:27 AM

I just sold my blu-ray player that came with my tv on ebay, I mean who the hell wants to spend ~$30 on each movie? I see blu-ray being more affordable in 2-3 years, 6 months I very much doubt.

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03-30-2008, 12:49 PM	#14 (permalink)
PunterCam Gold Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 487	It'll all happen much quicker than we expect I reckon, certainly Solid state h/d's. They will be the standard with 4-5 years at the latest, and by then they will actually be taking advantage of their extra speed (and maybe something will actually manage to to near PATAs limits, never mind SATA). Blu-ray though, I still dunno. People will only buy them for home use if they're cheap and when their dvd player has broken (the majority) and if it comes down to a £30 dvd player and a £60 blu-ray, people are gonna buy dvd. __________________ 2006 Mac Pro Dual, dual core xeons @ 2.0Ghz each 2Gb Ram (I'm too poor) NVidia Geforce 7300Gt 256mb Onboard Sound - optical out to Logitech Z5500 Digidesign MBox2 output to PMCs 250Gb Drive running both Mac OSX and Windows on seperate partitions, 400Gb Seagate Drive for Windows, 400Gb WD Drive for OSX 24¨ Acer AL2416W (not nearly as bad as you'd think) Various Lacie external drives

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