Thor, Star Wars Releases Lift Disappointing Blu-ray Sales

[talkstr8t]

[citation][nom]alidan[/nom]yea, editing video and such, saving things i acquired, and so on, i want to have bluray as the format that i do that on, but it still has to be cheaper. as in cheaper than a hdd. i want 1$ 1 disc before i really get into bluray storage, as i would be making 2 copies of everything as a backup. i cant have a single disc cost so much.[/citation]
Fry's routinely has BD-R at either $0.80 or $1/disc in 15- or 25-packs, and once had them for $0.50/disc after rebate. At the $0.50/disc this made BD-R cheaper than hard drives or any form of DVD on a $/GB basis.

I agree that there is a place for BD in storage of large amounts of data, including archival storage of photos, videos, and other high-value content.

 

[talkstr8t]

[citation][nom]Wamphryi[/nom] I can get 25 Blu Rays Disks at 25 GB each for $69 US.[/citation]You need to look harder - Fry's usually has 25GB BD-R's on sale for $1 or $0.80 per-disc in 25- or 15-packs (varies by week), and has had them as low as $0.50 after rebate.

 

[thrasher32]

The writing on the wall is very clear: Physical media are all dead or dying, the future is streaming media.

 

[Wamphryi]

[citation][nom]talkstr8t[/nom]You need to look harder - Fry's usually has 25GB BD-R's on sale for $1 or $0.80 per-disc in 25- or 15-packs (varies by week), and has had them as low as $0.50 after rebate.[/citation]

In my case it is living in the wrong place as opposed to looking in the wrong place. I live outside of the US and as a result I end up with the cost of importation and taxes specific to my country.

Having said that if as you say you can get disks for as low as 50 cents a disk after rebate then my argument that Blu Ray is an affordable media for large back ups is strengthened.

 

[eddieroolz]

Blu-ray is losing traction because it isn't new anymore and nothing exciting is coming out.

 

[moomooman]

I love Blu-ray, as great as DVD was, since I got a Blu-ray and HD movie channels I just think DVD level of quality looks antiquated now.

I'm a physical copy kind of guy, geographically a whole lot of consumers cant get net connections and download limits conducive to downloading hours of HD content. I certainly cant which is why I mail order whatever new BDs are going cheap.