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

G T Smith wrote:
> 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...

Ok.....thanks. I'm not about to buy one right now anyway, but want info. 
for future reference.

Fred

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