LG Blu-ray burner at Circuit City $229
This seems to be the hottest price for a blu-ray burner. It also includes software for playing blu-ray disks. No HD-DVD support, unlike earlier versions of this drive.

I thought someone else would post this first. I decided to wait to post before I decided against buying. I'm going to wait. Right now I don't have any need for the blu-ray burning feature, but I would like to be able to play the disks.

This is around $250 at most other places, including Newegg. Free shipping or in-store pickup. FatCash for 2%. Or go through Discover and get 5% back.

I'd attest that this is the best Blu-Ray burner on the market, reviewed as superior to Lite-Ons that cost much more and run much slower. The HD-DVD compatibility was a nice bonus on the GGW- model, however, at about the same price.

this would be sweet to have on a PC but I can't imagine how expensive buying BD media would be.

no thanks.

Wow, that's less than I paid for my 2X CD burner!

so you can actually copy blueray movies now?

Will it be the same 1080p quality? or compressed?

jlbmw2002 said:ozziegn said:this would be sweet to have on a PC but I can't imagine how expensive buying BD media would be.

no thanks.
I'll sadly stick to my DVD DL until Blu-Ray is a similar price.

Heh, 10 Pack of Single Layer Blu-ray 25GB would be the same price as this Drive heh.

Blu Ray discs are now selling for as low as $5-7 each (CC, Fry's, etc.), so your statement is neither funny, nor accurate.

leonc said:jlbmw2002 said:ozziegn said:this would be sweet to have on a PC but I can't imagine how expensive buying BD media would be.

no thanks.
I'll sadly stick to my DVD DL until Blu-Ray is a similar price.

Heh, 10 Pack of Single Layer Blu-ray 25GB would be the same price as this Drive heh.

Blu Ray discs are now selling for as low as $5-7 each (CC, Fry's, etc.), so your statement is neither funny, nor accurate.

Ive only seem them in the 8's local. Also thats for a 25gb disc, 50gb discs are still high.

luluchiboy said:so how many gigs is a normal blue ray movie from retalier?

And again... do you loose quality backing up blue ray movies?

The movies are made on either 25gb or 50gb discs (although I believe the majority are on 50gb discs).....It really depends on the movie as to how much space it actually takes up.....in theory you could back up your movies without losing any quality, since you'd be doing a 1:1 transfer (unless you went from a 50gb disc to a 25gb disc; then it would depend on what special features you wanted to port over and how large the actual movie file was) but you'll probably need some different software to rip the movie to your HDD first.

Unless you're a video creating guru there is not need for blu-ray on a PC yet especially at this price and the price of disks. There is simply no need nor will there be in the near future.

onion said:Unless you're a video creating guru there is not need for blu-ray on a PC yet especially at this price and the price of disks. There is simply no need nor will there be in the near future.

pure backup of data?