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Well, 25GB BD-R blanks are going for around $2 a pop, so the format is still more expensive per MB than DVD-R. That will hopefully change by the end of this yea

Well, 25GB BD-R blanks are going for around $2 a pop, so the format is still more expensive per MB than DVD-R. That will hopefully change by the end of this year. If you're only interested in using it for data, and don't care about the convenience of consolidation, you might do well to wait just a bit longer until the blanks and drives come down further in price. That said, I've been getting great use out of my BluRay burner, and it's really done a lot to convince me to switch completely from buying DVD movies to buying BluRay, as I can now make backups and keep them protected.

jerf 17y ago
I am planning on waiting anyhow. (I'll get one with my "next laptop", which is at least a year away most likely, barring accident.) But what I look forward to with BD is being able to back things up in fewer chunks. At the moment, 1 25GB chunk would cover all my highest-priority "critical" data. I'm clocking in at 15GB declared "critical" right now, so, not a DVD anymore, thanks to digital cameras and a baby. I commented on the price of DVD9s because last I had looked (a while ago!) they were about $4 a piece. Now they are only 2-ish, same as your cited price for a 25GB BD, and that's getting down to where I might pay for the convenience.