Although price-wise Blu-ray products appear to be a bit on the higher side today, it’s worth investing in Blu-ray disk drives, considering its quality and capability aspects.
Both for technology enthusiasts and ordinary users, Blu-ray’s a great gift of this century from the optical storage manufacturers. Although it’ll take a little more time to commercially obtain the 200 GB single side (up to 8 layer) media, as have been shown in its roadmap, today’s dual layer 50 GB Blu-ray disk’s not that insignificant in comparison with other optical disks (maimum – 30GB with dual layer HD DVD). Compared to DVD format, Blu-ray stores almost 5 times more data in single layer.
As far as the form factor aspect’s concerned, single and dual layer Blu-ray drives fit into PC slots easily. Secondly, most of the drives can be used with present CD and DVD formats. Thus, in one sense, it’s an investment for the future — maintaining present facilities intact, till the price of the Blu-ray disks come down.
Blu-ray’s the next generation optical disk format. It was developed by a group of optical disk companies together (consortium). All Blu-ray disks’ve been made bear with high temperature and moisture. They’re hardcore bare media by design, thus, they’ve very high scratch resistance. All such rewritable disks’re sector-based, they use defect management, and apply advanced error correction. Blu-ray movies and games altogether create an extra dimension for the movie lovers and gamers.
Thus, considering the plus points, users, and especially the new PC buyers should consider the Blu-ray drive as an essential component in their PCs, to get the complete media experience. Also, the time s not very far — when Blu-ray disks’ll outpace the CDs and DVDs.