Is anyone actually using Blu Ray at the present?

@Asylum (47893)
Manchester, England
May 4, 2008 1:35pm CST
I bought a new Sony laptop last December and it came with a Blu Ray drive, but there does not seem to be any real benefit in this at present. When I registered my laptop with Sony they sent me a Blu Ray disc of Spidrman 3, which I must confess is excellent quality, but I still use recordable DVDs due to their convenience and ease of availability. Has anyone found a good use for Blu Ray yet?
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Candee
@Candee (530)
• India
6 May 08
Wow, you have one! I heard it's pretty expensive and I fancied one until I read this post. I think it's too much hype about little. Thanks for letting us know.
Koalemos
@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
6 May 08
I have a Blu Ray drive, but only because it was part of the machine. I would not have bought one secially.
Candee
@Candee (530)
• India
7 May 08
I can understand..
ferdzNK
@ferdzNK (3211)
• Philippines
4 May 08
I could only dream of having one at the moment, Without the writing capability, I would hardly ever use it plus blue ray disc is way too expensive. HD movies is the only benefit that I could see there. For now a double layer DVD would makeup for it.
Koalemos
@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
5 May 08
This was precisely my point, the technology has gained great acclaim but does not really offer any true value at the moment.
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ferdzNK
@ferdzNK (3211)
• Philippines
5 May 08
This my friend is the advantage having no money. For sure its use will be very appreciated when the writer and BD disc become affordable, I hope sooner.
MsTickle
@MsTickle (25180)
• Australia
6 May 08
Sweety, I'm afraid i have no idea what blu tooth or blu RAY dricve is. I asked someone a while ago but i didn't understand what he told me. (I don't think he actually knew what it was either...he certainly didn't explain it well). One day, when I'm a bit more grown up (lol) I'll ask someone again.
Koalemos
@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
7 May 08
Bluetooth and Blu Ray are totally different things, but I can see how you would create the link if you are not aware what they are. Blu Ray is basically the latest development for disca. We started with CD which would hold 700 Mb of data and was ued to market music, then they developed DVD which holds several Gb of data and is use for films etcetera. Now there is Blu Ray, which will hold a massive volumeand is being used to market high definition films.
panther04
@panther04 (76)
• Philippines
5 May 08
i would like to own one but its very expensive at the moment and i can't afford to buy it. for the meantime i just my vcd and dvd r/w instead of blu-ray.
BogdanB
@BogdanB (13)
• Romania
4 May 08
The only good use until now is what you also got : high definition movies. Since a Blu Ray DVD writer is not so common, everyone gets the Blu Ray reader with new hardware but no one i know for the moment opts for a Blu Ray writer.