<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 9:07 AM, John Drescher <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:drescherjm@gmail.com">drescherjm@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 8:58 AM, Brian Wood <<a href="mailto:beww@beww.org">beww@beww.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Wednesday, July 07, 2010 10:28:38 pm Nick Rout wrote:<br>
>> On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 3:54 PM, John Drescher <<a href="mailto:drescherjm@gmail.com">drescherjm@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> >> Maybe 1st calculate the cost of storage per GB and compare that to<br>
>> >> hard-disk.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > That is a big problem. 2TB hard drives can be had for $110 now which<br>
>> > is way way cheaper per GB than blue ray will be for a long long time.<br>
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> I assume you are talking about the cost of the media, which I grant is very high right now.<br>
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> But, I recall paying over $4 for a single blank CD-R, which I could burn at a blazing 1X. My drive could burn at 2X, but<br>
> media that would allow that cost even more. Today I can buy 50 blanks for that same $4, and they can be burned at 52X.<br>
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</div>After posting I saw a couple of $3 BD-R disks on newegg. They have a<br>
caution about what drives support them but this may reduce the cost.<br>
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Actually your goal for a playable BD from several mythtv recordings<br>
would be something I am interested in anyways..<br>
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John<br>
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