BD gaining upper hand over HD DVD in PC-use drives

Digitimes reports:

"While Toshiba has enjoyed exceptionally booming sales of its HD-A2 HD DVD player in the North America market, Blu-ray Disc (BD) appears to have gained the upper hand in the PC-use drive segment.

[Sony's newest BD burner] BWU-200S features maximum write speeds of 4x for BD-R (recordable, write once) and BD-RE (rewritable)..."

Other vendors, including Pioneer, Philips, and Lite-On, either offering their own BD solutions or planning to in the near future.

"In contrast, Toshiba has not offered PC-use HD DVD burners or drives since it launched a HD DVD drive model in the fourth quarter of 2006, nor have any other members of the HD DVD Group, the sources noted."

[RadientFlux]

Personally I wouldn't have either in my computer for at least another 5 years or in till one saturates the market enough. Enough so that I can burn a disc from home to either bring in to the office or a client's office.

@HarryEtTubMan : I don't care who wins it's just pointless for me to own BD drive or the HDVD equivalent at the moment, when I can't make backups that work on any computer.

[MK_Red]

Agreed. It's too early to get either. In 5 years, both will be cheaper and much easier to burn and both could be superb backup devices with their large capacities.

[felman87]

Good call, but I hope Blu-ray wins cause of its greater storage capacity. While movies are identical, there's a big difference between 15 gig and 25 gigs. It would be awesome if I could get my hands on one of those 200 gig CDs and just burn my entire hard drive on a disk.

[mikeslemonade]

Toshiba has there hands full. Don't forget Dell and Apple who are also in the blu-ray camp. This isn't news because it was known long ago that blu-ray would have the advantage in the high def PC drive market.

[HarryEtTubMan]

^^^^ lol its gonna be Blu Ray bro... what do u think this article is saying. Blu Ray is winning worldwide by alot

[Danja]

HHMM what's new here....yawnz..seriously..Tosh iba issue a recall..!!

[Charlie2688]

You have to admit...it looks pretty nice :P

Imagine how many anime you could fit into one of those Blu ray discs @.@

[felman87]

with 200 gigs, you could put your whole hard drive

[chrno6]

yeah u can easily fit 10 anime series on 1 blu-ray disc, assuming that they are avi format.

[jaja1434]

200 gigs? Whole hard drive? Not quite. :)
Anyways think when the 4TB disc come in 8 or 9 years. One disc could have well

Now that my friend is a whole lots of anime!

[jaja1434]

Am I correct in assuming that 4x BR is roughly 12xDVD in terms on burning speed? I remember reading that somewhere, and logically it should be true. Otherwise it would take forever and a day to burn a whole BR disc.

[DJ]

If you're comparing single layer, DVD is faster at those speeds. But yeah, even 4x is still pretty damn slow if you're doing all 25GB.

[ldsfunaz]

This is all good and well, but in 2 years they will have 128 gig flashdrives/SD cards. That is far more exciting than whatever optical media is going to win out.

[DJ]

So that kinda puts it out of the running, unless of course HD-DVD movies somehow make a turnaround.

[ALICE_666]

blu-ray on pc yay, now if only there was a ps3 mod chip.

[smoothdude]

With piracy being a real problem, could you imagine how hard it would be if hd-dvd beat out blue ray and blue ray when for storage on the pc. Less people would be able to pirate the media. I hope that is how it turns out.

[tk]

Will be the standard drive in notebooks in 3 years time. High end PC's will have Blu Ray drives end next year, and notebooks will have drives in 2009. Will be great to have that much space on the disks on the go.