BluRay media goes on sale and the cost is... wait for it...

Luke Evans:

I am hoping this doesn't have too big of an effect on the price of PS3 games. The console uses blu-ray and to be honesy $100 per game is already way too much

Chris:

So...at $41....the next big flop! you need everyone to buy the read/writer as well.. at what price are they! It will pass quietly out of public consumption like zip disks.

Justin:

I think DVD quality & storage is enough for most pc users. Only professionals need & can afford it. As we know that the need for bigger storage will never end and the price will go down slowly, BlueRay will eventually become dominant media like DVD did.

Tin:

So, $41 for 25GB... Thats $1.64 per GB.

Doesn't even sound useful for backup purposes... Tape or hard disk would be cheaper and bigger. Probably more compatible too.

halcon:

What a rip-off! dont be fooled by the hype, these bastards try to convince you to buy the so called next generation of media, what will happen when they release HD-DVD ?
think again, if you want a backup solution buy a seagate pushbutton backup external hard drive. sure it will cost you more but you can update the contents of your data.
Say NO to Blue ray and HD-DVD and send packing to hell that misleading technology.

Trevor:

Let's keep this in perspective. I remember paying $29.95 for a single CD-R back in ~1992/93. Media costs usually start out much higher than they become after the market has matured.

Sam:

Here in the US, 25GB BD-R media costs about US$15-20 and BD-RE (writeable, erasable) about US$25-30 from any of half a dozen manufacturers. I can't find HD DVD-R for sale anywhere at any price, let alone re-writable media, so I'm not sure what you're comparing against when you mention "a mockery of the BluRay camp’s claims of superiority through higher capacity over HD-DVD". 25GB beats zero.

halcon:

Seems the US folks want to buy that stupid media blue ray and HD-DVD.
you can see this is a misleading product, it does not matter if the market is saturated with DVD blank media.
there is no need for a new media format you are better off with the current media solutions sold in the market.
remember the popular saying " if aint broke, dont fix it"

Bradley Dichter:

Verbatim's behind their competitor, TDK. You can buy their 2x rated BD-R blanks for a lot less. like $19.99 The -RW type is $24.99 Still only 25GB single layer at this time.

2shane:

I still use 520K 7" floppies...... Can't see the need for anything more...

Nothing beats my machine with a full 386 processor and a full 4 meg of Random Access Memory.

Your all silly.

Jason:

I remember backing up my 10MB HDD on 360k 5 1/4" floppies. ahhh, those were the days. and it did literally take days. I also remember when blank DVDs were the same rice as these new discs. Give it time and drives will be $100 and the media 50c, at least in a few years.

Ash:

It would be foolish for anyone to go out and buy this new technology (BluRay or HDDVD and burners/players) because technology tends to half in price every 18-24 months. Im quite sure that single and dual layer DVD+-R(W) can keep us busy with its 4-8GB capacity til then. And dont forget, just as DVD burners and players started out as single layer, so is this new technology. Give it a year or two and watch when Dual Layer HD/BluRay DVD discs come out. Thats when you should go and get one, and not now, since its all hype, and a new technology with bugs and is underdeveloped.

Benn:

Look here you turkeys who think that blu-ray is such a terrible thing. The main reason for the new format is simple: 'HD' as in 'high definition' video. Why do we need this???...well for a number of reasons, but a big one being that TVs are getting bigger. When TVs get bigger, a higher resolution is needed in order to keep the picture quality substatial to the size of the TV. Hence 'HD'. Currently DVD discs and players can not hold the massive size of the HD format hence the wonderful blu-ray disc. Also remember that blu-ray players will play your dvds.

Jake Schoermer:

I must say that unless backing up hard-disks there is absolutely no need to go out and buy a Blu Ray disk. And even if you are a pro who is constantly backing up large amounts of data whats wrong with other forms of media such as tape drives, DVD's, (smaller hard drives only, unless you wanna spend ur whole life waiting) and hard drives.

With cheap hard-drives and raid then i really don't see the need for such disks.

As for being portable Ionly paid $200 Aus for a portable 2.5" hard-drive. It would be much faster than burning a Blu-ray would be.

As for movies, i can understand that televisions are getting bigger but honestly who needs a 50" tv anyway and who actually sits so close to their 50" tv that hey can see the pixels anyway. Even if people start buying these huge tvs i can't see them taking off in a hurry.

I'm not saying that they won't take of just not in a hurry.