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While console gamers won't have the option of stepping up to the world of Blu-ray gaming until the PS3 launches in November, PC players on the bleeding edge of technology can already equip their desktops with Blu-ray optical drives. Boutique gaming PC manufacturer Alienware is now taking orders for Blu-ray-equipped versions of two of its high-end desktops, the Aurora 7500 and the Aurora ALX.
Replacing the default DVD drive on either of those models with a 2x Blu-ray reader/writer drive adds $999 to the final price tag, with the least expensive possible full setup (including monitor) going for $3,099. The company is also offering a handful of blank Blu-ray discs, but don't expect them to sold in spindles anytime soon. Individual discs run from $20 for a 25GB disc that can be written once to $50 for a 50GB rewritable disc.
Blu Ray still optical storage, its a degradable, non-archival, breakable, scratchable, mistakeable-for-a-frisbee, easily destroyed storage medium... I mean, 50GB of data you can snap in half?
I think the future is solid state or Flash storage; think how much you can store on a tiny SD or CF card, with no moving parts, almost impossible to destroy, resistant to shack and even water, RAID Drives can store GB's of data, and it cant be snapped.
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£400? I don't think I need to comment on that.
Yada yada yada all this talk. blue ray is just all hype. only way we know if its good is if we could get someone to use it and then post a review on the forums. when its available.
As I have said many a time, the future is solid state storage; practically indestructable, faster, easier to use, plag and play, portable and with now up to 2000GB in one small box, connected by USB or Firewire; no need for burning and all of the errors that come with it... Optical Storage will go the same way Floppy/Magnetic storage has, and for virtually the same reasons.