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[G T Smith <grahamsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Fred A. Miller wrote:
> Jerry Houston wrote:
> > BlueRay DVD burners are finally getting almost affordable, and I expect
> > the media to be reasonably priced before long as well.  So I'm
> > considering buying a BlueRay burner for my home server, but I have no
> > idea if existing applications will deal with it.  I think it would be a
> > great way to do backups.

<snip>

> > Thanks in advance,
>
> I am also interested....GOOD questions! Current rewriteable media is
> running $16 - $20 PER disc., which is still way too much to be a
> reasonable offering, IMHO. I'd also like to know if these drives will
> write all CD and DVD formats. You also have to make sure if you buy one
> of the writers, that it will write dual layer or you can't get 50G per
> disk. Now, to add another fly into the ointment, Panasonic as developed
> a quad layer Blue-Ray disk that will allow 100G. ;)
>
> Fred

Found the following...

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-bugs/2006-10/msg00031.html

and

http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/Blu-ray/

trying to find info on the subject is somewhat obfuscated by the
interventions of the original author of cdrtools. This suggests that
wodim can support Blue Ray but I do not have access to such a device so
cannot comment on how well it works...


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