Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2459 mails)

["Fred A. Miller" <fmiller@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.
>
> Does anyone know if the burners are already supported by applications
> like K3B in 64-bit SuSE 10.3?  Will the burner identify itself as a
> device that the software can write to, or will I need to wait for
> another application that knows about BlueRay?
>
> And if they're already supported, will it be possible to write multiple
> sessions until the disc is full, or will it need to be "finalized" after
> the first batch of data is written?
>
> 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

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