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daywane:
the more I think of it... The more I like it. My wife has a way of burning up cheep DVD players. I bet I replace at least 4 a year.

non moving parts seems a good way to go. I have never wore out a usb port , but I never plugged and unplugged one a 1,000 times yet eather.

It took me a very long time to get away from VCR. once blank DVDs came cheep I jumped in.

I think I could deal with a USB Player system .
I see one problem. blank DVDS are about .50 cents each,  a 4 gig USB is about $12.00. That is a huge jump for the movie industry to tack on.
I do not see people ready to add the extra cost to purchase a movie .

Ginsu Victim:

--- Quote from: daywane on August 29, 2009, 06:10:22 pm ---I see one problem. blank DVDS are about .50 cents each a 4 gig USB is about $12.00. That is a huge jump for the movie industry to tack on.
I do not see people ready to add the extra cost to purchase a movie .


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Remember why game companies switched from cartridges to discs?

ChadTower:

...because they insisted on bloating games with unnecessary cutscenes and cinematic crap?

Dartful Dodger:

--- Quote from: daywane on August 29, 2009, 06:10:22 pm ---
I see one problem. blank DVDS are about .50 cents each,  a 4 gig USB is about $12.00. That is a huge jump for the movie industry to tack on.

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How much do blank floppies cost?

Remember when Mac stopped putting floppy drives on their computers and people said that would be the nails in Mac's coffin?

The new Mac laptops don't have a CD/DVD drives.  Dell wasn't waiting for Mac to be proved right(again) so CD/DVD drives are an external option for their mini laptops.


BTW: This thread is called USB drive vs Blu-Ray.  The $12 for a blank Blue-Ray disk is just the tip of the iceberg.  Like I already mentioned my company looked into distributing an application on Blu-Ray.  It's expensive and you're limited by the Blu-Ray playing software.

A USB drive can be any size and contain any software and doesn't require consent and licensing fees that cost an arm and a leg from Sony.

ChadTower:

--- Quote from: Dartful Dodger on August 31, 2009, 02:53:46 pm ---A USB drive can be any size and contain any software and doesn't require consent and licensing fees that cost an arm and a leg from Sony.

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Which is exactly why they won't use it.

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