PANASONIC's Blu-ray Disc Drive Now Available: $999

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  • Jerry Jones
    Super MURCer
    • Sep 1999
    • 3419

    #1

    PANASONIC's Blu-ray Disc Drive Now Available: $999

    $999:

    http://tinyurl.com/qnp4l

    Jerry Jones
  • paulw
    Super MURCer
    • Sep 1999
    • 1026

    #2
    Do you think it will play back BD movies??
    paulw

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    • Brian Ellis
      Super MURCer
      • Sep 1999
      • 9623

      #3
      Do you think it will work? Especially as the same link has no media available for it yet. How long will it take a 50 Gb disc to write at 2X?
      Brian (the devil incarnate)

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      • Dr Mordrid
        Moderator
        • Apr 2001
        • 26592

        #4
        Originally posted by paulw
        Do you think it will play back BD movies??
        No, it won't. This has been the "big joke" lately on a lot of forums.

        Dr. Mordrid
        Dr. Mordrid
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        I carry a gun because I can't throw a rock 1,250 fps

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        • Jerry Jones
          Super MURCer
          • Sep 1999
          • 3419

          #5
          The only reason anybody would want to buy one now is to store large quantities of video as data files.

          It might not be cost effective to jump on it this early, however.

          The price will drop considerably.

          Jerry Jones

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          • Dr Mordrid
            Moderator
            • Apr 2001
            • 26592

            #6
            Not to mention that RICHO has developed new R/W optics that can do BR, HD DVD, CD and DVD. IMO combo drives will be the salvation of both HD formats, if that's possible after all this bad PR.
            Dr. Mordrid
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            An elephant is a mouse built to government specifications.

            I carry a gun because I can't throw a rock 1,250 fps

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            • DGhost
              Super MURCer
              • May 2000
              • 2573

              #7
              Originally posted by Dr Mordrid
              No, it won't. This has been the "big joke" lately on a lot of forums.

              Dr. Mordrid
              funny fact - laptops should not need HDCP compliant graphics cards to be able to play full res HD content on the screen. external outputs, on the other hand...

              I find it sad that most movies do not actually enable the down scaling feature anyways...

              just Sony being Sony...
              "And yet, after spending 20+ years trying to evolve the user interface into something better, what's the most powerful improvement Apple was able to make? They finally put a god damned shell back in." -jwz

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