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HD-DVD and Blu-Ray Coming Soon to PCs
An anonymous reader writes "A Yahoo! news piece has some sales details for the upcoming Blu-Ray and HD-DVD players. They also have some details on disc drives that read the new formats." From the article: "Sony has priced its first desktop computer that will have a Blu-ray Disc burner. The drive will be able to write to 25GB and 50GB BD-RE (rewritable) and BD-R (write once) discs. Sony will start selling 25GB BD-RE and BD-R discs in April for $20 and $25 respectively and 50GB capacity versions of the same discs later in the year for $48 and $60 respectively. The Vaio RC will be launched in 'early summer' and will cost around $2300. At the CeBIT show in Germany last week, Sony announced plans for a Vaio notebook with a Blu-ray Disc drive."
Who is the target audience for BluRay DVDs? Hard drives are cheaper, portable, and easy to write to. They don't get scratched, smeared, melted, or destroyed. So you can put 12 movies on a BluRay and give it to your friend instead of just 1? I just can't see myself buying another expensive piece of hardware when the money could be better spent on another hard drive.
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