Comments on: Blu-ray group looks for wider support

The industry association promoting blue-laser technology as the next DVD format is re-forming and opening up membership to content and software companies.

No backwards compatibility!?!?

The only reason these companies want this standard to win out is so that we can all run down the store and buy not only new hardware but all new software for it as well.

Well, I have news for them, it will be a cold day in hell before I do that. If they want blue-ray that is fine, make it backwards compatible or they can cram it.

Robert

my thoughts on the subject

I'm more interested in the advancement of storage than the backwards compatability. I have a strack of cd writers at my home, all were great deals. Now it's all about DVD writers. They can take the place of my cd writers. So I find myself only caring to have one shared DVD writer. I also share a 80 gig and a 120 gig hard drive on my home network. That keeps all my videos and other captured material that takes up large amounts of space. I still find myself deleting.

My point is a 50gig rewritable disc or even a 27gig recordable would definitely be useful. That is a decent size relative to my hard drive space and as long as the medium is stable for a good few years, it could be even more robust than my hard drive (they seem to die every few years).

CD writing was never useful for me. They didn't hold a lot of information, half the time reading an old disk would not work, and managing the ridiculous stack of CDs and finding what I was looking in a reasonable amount of time rarely worked out. CD writers was more of a toy than anything else. Especially now that they are cheap and everyone can just make a CD to share information quickly. Uploading to a webspace or using a usb flash drive is much more useful and it doesn't entail cradling an odd-sized disk.

A standard for a smaller disk that worked with CD readers and writers would have done well. Pocket-sized is always the way to go. People are willing to pay for convenience.

Blu-ray disks will serve its purpose well. Now what I would like is a blu-ray disk recorder that could encode the video on the fly to a divx or similar format. A 50gig rewritable disc could hold over 100 hours of video with pretty decent quality.

No backwards compatibility!?!?

The only reason these companies want this standard to win out is so that we can all run down the store and buy not only new hardware but all new software for it as well.

Well, I have news for them, it will be a cold day in hell before I do that. If they want blue-ray that is fine, make it backwards compatible or they can cram it.

Robert

my thoughts on the subject

I'm more interested in the advancement of storage than the backwards compatability. I have a strack of cd writers at my home, all were great deals. Now it's all about DVD writers. They can take the place of my cd writers. So I find myself only caring to have one shared DVD writer. I also share a 80 gig and a 120 gig hard drive on my home network. That keeps all my videos and other captured material that takes up large amounts of space. I still find myself deleting.

My point is a 50gig rewritable disc or even a 27gig recordable would definitely be useful. That is a decent size relative to my hard drive space and as long as the medium is stable for a good few years, it could be even more robust than my hard drive (they seem to die every few years).

CD writing was never useful for me. They didn't hold a lot of information, half the time reading an old disk would not work, and managing the ridiculous stack of CDs and finding what I was looking in a reasonable amount of time rarely worked out. CD writers was more of a toy than anything else. Especially now that they are cheap and everyone can just make a CD to share information quickly. Uploading to a webspace or using a usb flash drive is much more useful and it doesn't entail cradling an odd-sized disk.

A standard for a smaller disk that worked with CD readers and writers would have done well. Pocket-sized is always the way to go. People are willing to pay for convenience.

Blu-ray disks will serve its purpose well. Now what I would like is a blu-ray disk recorder that could encode the video on the fly to a divx or similar format. A 50gig rewritable disc could hold over 100 hours of video with pretty decent quality.