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.
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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 -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org