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almost there! A price drop to $20 and I'm in

How much are the blur-ray -/+R discs?

I have seen 25GB blu-ray blanks for as little as $7. The average is still about $11 for names that I consider safe.

As for the deal above, it has to get under $199 for me to break out the plastic. I might even wait for the $100 range if blanks don't drop a bit.

still way way to much. stupid sony...

Smart Sony. Paying Toshiba to bow out of the race was the smartest thing they ever did. Without it, prices would have followed their previous trends, and players would now be in the $100 - $150 range. Instead they are still selling players for anything between $300 - $1000, and getting a fat license fee from every manufacturer they deem worthy. They don't care how long it takes people to adopt. They are going to sell one to nearly every household eventually.

If you have to be bleeding edge, or 1080P movies at any cost go for it. For storage a 750GB hd = $100 a similar BR capacity = $240 for burner + $330 for media based on #3 = $570 what a deal. And the joys of HDCP. Spendy coasters too. At the rate the price is dropping on BR vs hard drives and high speed internet they are going to miss the boat. You are investing in an 8 track player..

I have this drive. Works great. Even burned a DL 50GB disc, no problems. Damned expensive media though.

yes the great whore of the earth sony won the battle with money and now we get higher prices and root kits: suck it sony.

Agree with #7 - bought this drive and burned a 50gb dual layer disc. Really solid brand - even if the PowerDVD playback software is crippled (only stereo audio on free version) and buggy (patches released almost every week). But that's a PowerDVD problem.

Drive itself is awesome - but be sure to get latest firmware - can almost guarantee there will be a newer version by the time you pick it up.

Yes, the media is still too expensive. I returned mine becuase DVD's ($.04 $/mb) and even hard drives ($0.20 $/mb) are cheaper per megabyte than the blu-ray data discs ($.40/$.52 $/mb)

Just keep buying hard drives for now.