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So Many Blu-ray Burner Choices! Do We Care?
September 24, 2008

Sony and Buffalo have just announced new 8x Blu-ray burners. It looks like you'll be able to record content onto a 25 GB BD-R in just 15 minutes time. 
Sounds great, right? But I wonder just what people are hoping to burn.  Right now I would assume that at least legally, this means high-def content from digital camcorders and/or anything people have streamed/downloaded? It's not like you can make a copy of your Blu-ray film with these burners.
Just curiously doing a quick Google Search, I did find a step-by-step method to rip your Blu-ray titles onto computers for eventual burning via these such drives. They promise the created discs would then play on current Blu-ray set-tops and Playstation 3s.
I am definitely not what you'd call 'technically totally on top of it.' But these instructions to use your burners to record Blu-ray titles seems atrociously confusing.
Thankfully, more and more Blu-ray titles are offering legal digital copies...but generally you'll be seeing these files in standard-definition.
Please feel free to argue how 8x Blu-ray burners will improve your life in a big way! Maybe I'm just missing something totally obvious.

Posted by Susanne Ault on September 24, 2008 | Comments (1)


October 13, 2008
In response to: So Many Blu-ray Burner Choices! Do We Care?
K commented:

As a result of the STUPID format war, I'm stuck with at least a GRAND (near original price) of HD DVD's that might as well be EXTINCT once my HD-A1 dies! I FULLY intend to burn ALL these HD DVD movies to Blu-ray once the price is right! They will be sourced with my $25 XBOX HD DVD add-on drive I bought at Best Buy when they were liquidating them! I'll be DAMNED if I'm going to pay for these movies all over again just because several distinct groups of corporate IDIOTS could all agree on one HD standard!!! (That's what's "obvious" to me, and I'm sure I'm not the only one!)





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