Just be careful with your Hard Drive. Overuse can cause corruption. If all you do is store stuff and that's it, then you should be fine, but if you constantly delete, format, write, overwrite, etc... your drive may die in a couple of years.

If these are reliable, I'd be willing to give them a try, but the burner required would be so expensive, it just isn't worth it. You'd have to write A LOT before the value of these outweighs that of a hard disk, at this price anyway. But then again, as said, this is the grand opening price. Soon after, the price will no doubt start to plummet. That's been the case with every media type except DVD-RAM.

sammorris
No dout,in 2 years mabye just mabye but eh its soemthign to watch and bitch at untill it leaves fantsy priceing land *L*

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Will they release this like the dvd recorders now speed by speed plus you will have too have a powerful machine too encode at 36 mbps.

Encode? Who said anything about encoding? You just don't get those sorts of speeds, this is writing to the disc. Encoding is done before you write to the media!

I am personally not cheap, but money wise. If these swindlers think I will buy their products at prices ranging at 19.99$ and above, they are out of their minds.

Hypothetical situation here, what if you use the disc, the power goes off, you're in the middle of a burn...BOOM

19.99$ DOWN THE DRAIN!!! And since in the States minimum wage is 5$ an hour (which is close to slavery salary if you ask me) that is 4 hours for a crappy disc you won't end up using.

Just as a tangent, minimum wage here in Montreal is 7.40$ an hour. Still chump change if you ask me.

And what about these ridiculous 50 gb blue ray discs...at close to 50$ per disc...HA!

HA! YA OK! I will stick to cheap 48cents dvds that come up to 6$. thanx

Aren't we forgetting something?
With brand new technology, this problem always occurs. Now recordable DVDs have been about for a while the prices are reasonable. If you must dive in to be the first to use them, then you will be paying over the odds for them. I had no idea US minimum wages were so low, In the UK it's about the same in pounds, with a 1.8 exchange rate!

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I agree with peanuts2. I use CD and DVD+/-RW's and external HD's for all of my back up. It cost much less than this "new tech" stuff they keep coming out with. It also works with everything I already own. WOW!!! 2X write speed!!! YE HAW!!! Luck to all!!!

Yeah exactly, I've only started writing DVDs often in the past few months. The majority of discs i've burnt are 8 or 16x discs.

Once again, sammorris has a good point, in a few years the cost factor will come down and what is new now will be commonplace in 3 to 5 years, just like everything else. But, also, by then this will be replaced by the "Next New Thing". Pay the piper!!! Luck to all!!!

The next new thing, gets us talking. One wonders whether you can use UV to read discs. By then, we'll probably have something better than a big plastic disc, there'll end up being a legacy slot for those CDs, DVDs and HD-DVDs, then like a slot that attaches a 500x SD card or equivalent. It'd eliminate the once-only issue. No coasters either!

It's a wonder that everything hasn't already gone to some type of "Memory Card" or "Stick" yet. I'm sure it will come down to something simple, just give it time.

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sammorris
mabye but that willtake 10-20 eyars to get to where sticks can hold 20 soemthign MB and cost soemthing like blank DVD or black BR discs

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Well who knows, a mere couple of years ago you could only get 16MB flash drives, and USB only really became commonplace 7 years or so ago. Before that it was PS/2, serial and parallel.

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sammorris
point bah my mind is to slow to change subjects,been thinking about gas and methane/hydregen and battery powered cars,youknow we couldgo to ethenol in under 10 years and it will take 50 to perfect battery and methane/hydregen so the oli companys will rulefor another 50 years >> quite annoying.

ture,altho I dont see 100GB flash drives under 20 for at least 8 years 0-o

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No, I think you're right in that respect.

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sammorris
Also themedia indusrty would want a midea format that decays and or degrades after a few years *L*
I think it has gotten use to that,but how long dose qauilty DVD-R media last 5-10 years? I ahve gotten tot eh point all my DL DVDs have D skin on them 0_o

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I'm not sure, yet to have a disc that's degraded over time on me.

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sammorris
I ahve had at elast 1/4th of my CD collection flake and die,so I am labeling my DVD collection from the start.

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I see, well sorry to hear that!

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First time I've heard of this problem unless CD-R's are abused severely. Sorry dude, hope you have better luck in the future. I have hundreds of copies I've collected over the years and have backed them up to MP3's. Whenever I need a new copy of a disc, I pull up the MP3's and re-convert them to standard format so my standard CD player will play them. But I have never had one flake. Have your disc been exposed to alot of heat or sunlight? I've heard this may cause that problem. Also, is it the top or bottom flaking? LOL!!!

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flyingv
*noogies*
its the top,I think cat piss and leting them dry on thier own might have helped,also they got moldy so meh >< I ahve 300+ cds so haveing 20 or less go aint so bad,altho without boardband repalceing stuff is fun >>

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I'd say that was the problem. I'd recommend one of two things: 1- Kill the cat or, 2- put the CD's somewhere they can't be pissed upon! The bottom side of the top layer of the disc is where the DATA is recorded and if this gets scratched or chipped, disc is ruined. Good luck replacing the ones you lost. I've been messed up and been in contest to see who could throw a CD the furthest. They fly quite well, and coasters make great targets at the rifle range. So have some fun with the ones you had messed up and look at the bright side, be creative and don't just throw them away, recycle them like I do!!! Have fun and good luck!!!

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flyingv
*L*
its msotly mold like stuff on them and that the paint or whatever and the foil just flaked off,without that tis a pice of plastic *L*
oh well such is life ^^ I justmiss the freaking boardband net this dial up hurts I am even willign to pay 300 down and 100 a month for sat DSL....even if tis on every other day for 4 or 7 hours its better than dail up all the time..and I will keep dail up for simpel stuff >>

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ZIppyDSM

I have cable modem and wouldn't know where to go without it now. Pricey - but you get what you pay for. I used dial-up for years until I broke down and tried this. Only way to fly!!! LOL!!!

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flyingv
I moved or ahd to move sicne my mom and dad died last year (9 months apart liver and lung cancer)
so from Cable net witch was 98 with cable TV,down to dailup....I cant take it much anymore ><

I am more than willign to apy 100 a motnh for even simi working boardband I know how bad SATlite is but hell dail up is turely worse...

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