Exactly! As long as they cost an arm and a leg and take an hour to burn, few people will want them. I was hoping that things would get better much sooner than 2012 though, and that Blue Ray may become acceptable in about two years, but I guess that the laws from the CPU business don't apply here.

116 USD? damn, that costs more than a 250GB HDD

Its a fairly good format, 25Gb is ok.. but I would actually prefer something like a 50-100 Gb for backup purposes.. fewer discs are easier to handle.. blu-ray has taken along time to get where it is, for it to replace dvd it will take even longer.

Im just hoping we get some decent storage medium for backup and file transfer... perhaps flash drives will be the next thing... if they become cheap enough, flash drives are more intuitive to use, like a floppy or a hdd. wich is actually alot better than having to have a special program like nero just to put information on a storage disc.

alpha0ne you also have to recall that CD-R and DVD-R did cost an arm and a leg when they where first introduced.. ive just thought that the whole process would go faster now that they have done all this before with CD/DVD.