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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."
So far, I see a lot of vaporware. Once I see the product, I'll believe it exists.
The rest (price, copy protection, reliability etc) has been mentioned before, so I won't get into depth there. Just that I'll certainly wait until those problems are analyzed before I'll consider buying one. And while the prices are higher than for external HDs, I don't really see a good reason to buy one.
Current movies aren't worth being copied. Or bought.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.