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| Cheapest Blue Ray Media | ||
| mol3000 posted 2008 Sep 28 13:55 | ||
| Whats the cheapest blue ray media you have seen that will play in the ps3 with no problem | ||
| redwudz posted 2008 Sep 28 19:21 | ||
| The better question might be, which Blu-ray media works the best with the fewest problems?
JMO, but I would stick with some of the major online retailers, Rima, Supermediastore and Meritline, as you will most likely have to buy online anyway. Verbatim makes a Blu-ray disc, about $7 to $8US, and that probably is among the cheaper ones with decent quality. At those prices, it's a really bad idea to look for cheap discs, and one 'coaster' will make all your savings worthless. Blu-ray is not mainstream yet, and burners, authoring programs and media are not anywhere 'foolproof'. :( | ||
| SCDVD posted 2008 Sep 28 19:38 | ||
| It will be nice when there is enough quality data on Blu-ray media to know the good from the bad. This isn't an issue with DVD media; there is abundant information available. I haven't seen any quality info on Blu-ray media. | ||
| jman98 posted 2008 Sep 28 20:34 | ||
| I agree with you SCDVD. I've read that Taiyo Yuden may start manufacturing the discs, but given how conservative they are and their unwillingness to send DL discs outside of Japan, I'm not real optimistic that they'll ever let us poor North Americans have any. Verbatim is the only brand I would trust right now. Given how in North America that Sony has outsourced all of it's DVD media to the cheapest and lowest quality Indian manufacturers, I would not trust Sony made burnable BluRay discs. The only other guys I know in the business are those cheap companies that make poor quality DVDs, so it's not exactly a vote of confidence that they somehow got BluRay right. | ||
| highvolumeJP posted 2008 Sep 28 21:57 | ||
| Verbatim has gone down in quality over the years - quality control has taken a hit - I doN't know if their production facility needs new equipment but it shows - I would avoid BluRay as a format for recording at least for now - imagine losnig all that data - the margin of error for this media is very small - I would not trust it yet for consumer use. | ||
| Gen-An posted 2008 Sep 29 11:44 | ||
| Isn't most of the Blu-Ray media made in Japan right now? I'd say the quality should be pretty high with the major brands. Sony BD media is no exception. | ||
| lordsmurf posted 2008 Sep 29 13:14 | ||
Says who? Verbatim -- or rather MITSUBISHI media -- is still fine. It's been an excellence choice since 2001. | ||
| rubberman posted 2008 Oct 12 14:05 | ||
| monoprice.com has ritek blu ray single layer disc for $8.50 each
http://www.monoprice.com/products/subdepartment.asp?c_id=108&cp_id=10836 | ||
| CaptainVideo posted 2008 Nov 09 17:52 | ||
| Microcenter is selling Verbatim 25GB Blu-Ray BD-R's for $9.99 for a single disc.
Linky That's cheaper than Supermediastore.com right now. They want $12.99 for one, as low as $9.80 for 5+. |
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