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#1 2007-11-26 7:55 pm
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Anyone plunked down for HD DVD?
I'm becoming more and more interested in the benefits of more spacious optical media for backups. Has anyone plunked down for a Blu Ray or DVD-HD drive? What's been your experience? What would you advise or do differently now that you've purchased?
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#2 2007-11-26 8:32 pm
Re: Anyone plunked down for HD DVD?
My roommate just got a PS3. He has yet to get the HDMI cables, so I'm not too sure what movies will look like once he buys them. My up-converting DVD player seems to be working just fine as of now though.
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#3 2007-11-26 8:46 pm
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Re: Anyone plunked down for HD DVD?
brainiac_7 wrote:
I'm becoming more and more interested in the benefits of more spacious optical media for backups. Has anyone plunked down for a Blu Ray or DVD-HD drive? What's been your experience? What would you advise or do differently now that you've purchased?
I am with you. It is damn hard to find any info on HD as data storage because everyone seems mezmorised so they can only talk about it as another means of media consumption.
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#4 2007-11-26 9:34 pm
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$200 for an Xbox 360 HD-DVD player. Worth it.
Haven't bought a Blu-Ray player yet though. And Sony stupidly took out the PS2 playback on the PS3 so why the smurf should I spend money on one of those paperweights just to feed the Sony hype machine. I'd rather wait and get a normal Blu-Ray player when it gets cheap enough and avoid giving my money to Sony. What, am I ranting again?
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#5 2007-11-26 10:51 pm
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Re: Anyone plunked down for HD DVD?
Why would I want to repeat the history of the Betamax vs. VHS war?
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#6 2007-11-26 10:52 pm
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Forget the war. I'm getting both so I can have both.
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#7 2007-11-26 10:55 pm
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Re: Anyone plunked down for HD DVD?
Still too rich for my blood. IMHO, a BluRay disk that runs $0.50-$1.00 per GB (for no-name brands) has got nothin on plain old, quickly and easily rewritable hard drives that can be picked up as cheap as $0.20 per GB. 
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#8 2007-11-27 5:29 am
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Re: Anyone plunked down for HD DVD?
Ok thanks for weighing in everyone. Many sound as baffled as I am. I'm not so much interested in a read-only media player but a disc writer.
Cost-per-disc is an important factor, pm, however I'm intrigued with LaCie's Blu Ray offering, currently listed as out of stock. My worry: dumping 46 GBs of data onto a disc and having it flake out, ala CD-DVD media's flakiness.
Media has outstripped my ability to conveniently back it up. I'm already backing up to three separate and cheap FW HDs, but would like some hard storage to place elsewheres.
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