Give it a month or so, they will be all over the place. This is new technology, the major DVDRW manufacturers probably will release these when the media becomes a little cheaper more available.
there is nowhere to buy a hd-dvd burner without buying a new pc.
unless you can find one that someone took it out of their pc and sells it on ebay (very rare).
another nail in hd-dvd's coffin.
As much as I like HD DVD, I'm definitely more anxious to get into burning Blu Ray discs. 25GB per layer and a durable hard coating are ideal for archiving my HD shows. At the current price point though (~10x the cost per GB of DVD+R), it is just not feasible. Still, as I begin to shoot my own video in HD, I think that I might be able to do things more easily with HD DVD's HDi features than Blu Ray's BD-J. Therefore I do look forward to both formats being burnable in the near future.
Blu-Ray is available now.
hd-dvd: well there's one pc reader and one writer that will cost you 2500usd (with free laptop) and a drive is an aftersale extra with the xbox360, 15/30gb capacity - assuming you can find any blank media, easy copy-protection.
Yes, but it is still too expensive (not to say that an HD-DVD burner wouldn't be too expensive as well). I was hoping to get a burner and some discs this Christmas, but for the price of the blank discs, I could buy two hard drives. And even then, I still have to buy the burner too, which is another $450+. Hopefully by next Christmas...
And reasonably priced blanks. I would have gone ahead with buying my Blu Ray burner this year, even though it was going to cost almost $500. However, the price of the blank discs has turned me away for another year.
There are more readers that the Xbox360 one, such as the LG GGC-H20L (plays both HD DVD and Blu-Ray) and the GGW-H20 which adds Blu-Ray burning to the dual-format reader.
Granted the HD DVD writing options are sorely limited at this point. Personally this is a non-issue since the media is still too expensive for me anyway. It's just a matter of time though. I remember when I first started burning my own Audio CDs. Blanks were $10 each. Ouch.
Not really, but I tend to buy what I want. Actually, my first Plextor CD-R was about $450 back in 1999. Anyway, the price will drop on the hardware and the media but just takes time.
As much as I like HD DVD, I'm definitely more anxious to get into burning Blu Ray discs. 25GB per layer and a durable hard coating are ideal for archiving my HD shows. At the current price point though (~10x the cost per GB of DVD+R), it is just not feasible. Still, as I begin to shoot my own video in HD, I think that I might be able to do things more easily with HD DVD's HDi features than Blu Ray's BD-J. Therefore I do look forward to both formats being burnable in the near future.
Been there, done that.
My first CD burner cost me about $330. It had a blazing speed of 2x, had a caddy (removable enclosure) instead of the usual tray, did everything Track-at-Once (no Disc-at-Once), and no support for CD-RW (these cost about $20 each, and didn't play in anything, so no big loss there). I remember finding a great deal on blank CDs back then for about $3 per disc (50 pack in a large box, with jewel cases). But I was a big hit, since no one even knew you could burn your own CDs yet.
Oh, I almost forgot to mention. My first burner was....... A SONY!! :doh: