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It definitely has possibilities. Though, when they first come out, the cost will be astronomical, but that's no problem because that will just drive the price of conventional HDDS down which will be good I wonder if such devices will only take up one eide or sata slot? If so, that would be awsome because it will prevent people like me who want to fit as many eide disks into one box as possible from having to swap one of them out for a CD drive every time I want to do a reinstall or rescue

well, thats like most DVD-R devices.. at first they only supported one format: DVD+R, DVD-R or DVD-RAM, but now most support all or at least DVD+R and DVD-R. Would be cool if they do the same with HD-DVD and Blueray.

My suggestion on this two formats:
Blueray will come through sooner or later, because you can save much more data on one disk. Who doesn't want to save more?

They industry argues that it is more easily to create a HD-DVD because they doesn't have to buy completely new machines .. but they had to when they changed from CD to DVD,too. So that's not really a point.

Blueray please

daddy2k wrote:well, thats like most DVD-R devices.. at first they only supported one format: DVD+R, DVD-R or DVD-RAM, but now most support all or at least DVD+R and DVD-R. Would be cool if they do the same with HD-DVD and Blueray.

My suggestion on this two formats:
Blueray will come through sooner or later, because you can save much more data on one disk. Who doesn't want to save more?

They industry argues that it is more easily to create a HD-DVD because they doesn't have to buy completely new machines .. but they had to when they changed from CD to DVD,too. So that's not really a point.

Blueray please

I personally think that HD-DVD is the way to go this very moment. Why should we the consumer have to burden the cost of jumping a generation of media formats?

HD will be MUCH cheaper in the short run for the consumer. Yes Blu-ray has much greater capacity, but gosh do you pay for it!

I think HD, but it looks like the industry is swerving towards Blu-ray. I dont think there is room for both, one will fall.

Hopefully a more standardised version of blu-ray will surface. At the moment Blu-ray is a SONY proprietry isn't it?