Posts by Roger Fraumann

China readies Blu-Ray competitor

First one to make 50GB+ data media under $2 a disk, wins.

First one to make 50GB+ data media available for under $2 a disk, wins. The real issue is not movies, it is backing up all those huge hard drives onto persistent media. Perhaps China can help solve the HD back-up and archive challenge.

HD media future may be Blu, but it's not rosy

Blu-Ray will do well, once media is priced right for data back-ups

Blu-Ray DL at 50GB a disk is just large enough to be useful for data back-up media, but the price of "blank" media is still 10-20x too high. Once the media drops in price for data back-up/archive use, we should see a rapid take up replacing the tape drives for SMB in particular.