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bought my first BD-R today

PostPosted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 10:23 pm
by dolphinius_rex
I just picked up my first Philips 2x BD-R for $19.99 CAD at futureshop. Unfortunately, it's not available online yet to link to.

The disc is REALLY nice looking, and bottom resembles a Gold DVD (kind of brownish). It has a similar look to a DVDRW, but brown.

No, I don't have a Blu Ray burner yet :P

PostPosted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 4:34 pm
by MonsterMan
And I thought I was obsessive about optical media...


:wink:

PostPosted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 8:08 pm
by Phoenix '97
Pics? :D
Front, back, side, even a small video to show the colour changes as light gets reflected from it.

PostPosted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 11:22 pm
by [buck]
^ I second that motion! :D You didn't buy that Fuji F10 for nothing, now did you? [-X

Image

Oh man, you have no idea how long it took me to find that smiley

PostPosted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 1:23 am
by dolphinius_rex
Here's some pics

PostPosted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 1:25 am
by dolphinius_rex
more pics

PostPosted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 1:26 am
by dolphinius_rex
yet more pics

PostPosted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 1:27 am
by dolphinius_rex
This is what happens when you take too many pictures around a cat....

PostPosted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 1:28 am
by dolphinius_rex
Hopefully that satisfies everyone for the moment :roll:

PostPosted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 4:59 am
by dodecahedron
well, thanks to the cat, when you do get a BD drive you can test how well it works with (cat-)scrathed media :lol:

PostPosted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 8:17 am
by [buck]
Am I the only one who noticed that it's made in the Netherlands? :o It must be a true Philips made disc!! Wow!!

PostPosted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 9:52 am
by dolphinius_rex
[buck] wrote:Am I the only one who noticed that it's made in the Netherlands? :o It must be a true Philips made disc!! Wow!!


Hrm, maybe it was handcrafted by RJW? :D

PostPosted: Sun Jun 25, 2006 10:31 am
by Spazmogen
What you need is a new BR drive.

HERE. Only $1269.99 CDN too.

They also have TDK & Panasonic brand BR-RE (aka RW) discs too.

PostPosted: Sun Jun 25, 2006 11:42 am
by [buck]
Spazmogen wrote:What you need is a new BR drive.

HERE. Only $1269.99 CDN too.

They also have TDK & Panasonic brand BR-RE (aka RW) discs too.

Pff... it's only $985 here :wink:

PostPosted: Sun Jun 25, 2006 2:26 pm
by Spazmogen
[buck] wrote:
Spazmogen wrote:What you need is a new BR drive.

HERE. Only $1269.99 CDN too.

They also have TDK & Panasonic brand BR-RE (aka RW) discs too.

Pff... it's only $985 here :wink:


I think Dolphin has an in with them already :wink:

PostPosted: Sun Jun 25, 2006 2:29 pm
by [buck]
Spazmogen wrote:
[buck] wrote:
Spazmogen wrote:What you need is a new BR drive.

HERE. Only $1269.99 CDN too.

They also have TDK & Panasonic brand BR-RE (aka RW) discs too.

Pff... it's only $985 here :wink:


I think Dolphin has an in with them already :wink:

You think? :wink:

PostPosted: Sun Jun 25, 2006 2:44 pm
by dolphinius_rex
If I was going to buy it, I'd probably be going straight to the wholesale supplier anyways :wink: but I'm not shelling out that much $$$ for a BluRay drive just yet. My first BluRay drive will be the Sony PS3, and then I'll get a burner. That way I'll have something to test my burned BluRay movies on. At the moment there isn't enough testing that can be done on burned media anyways though :(

PostPosted: Sun Jun 25, 2006 10:53 pm
by jberry
add in Canada's 15% tax then you are almost at $1 per gig....ouch.


when on sale hard drives can be 40 cents per gig....

glad you bought one for the pics but man the price is a bugger.

PostPosted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 2:55 am
by dolphinius_rex
jberry wrote:add in Canada's 15% tax then you are almost at $1 per gig....ouch.


when on sale hard drives can be 40 cents per gig....

glad you bought one for the pics but man the price is a bugger.


I collect media, I don't collect HDD's :wink:

And BC's tax is 14%, about to go down to 13% and then 12%. Alberta's tax is 7% about to go down to 6% and then 5%.

PostPosted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 9:58 am
by jberry
dont' remind me of alberta.... :evil: No pst there!!!! Of course they have all the money :D

when you collect are you actually keeping them for posterity, etc.

PostPosted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 10:05 am
by dolphinius_rex
jberry wrote:dont' remind me of alberta.... :evil: No pst there!!!! Of course they have all the money :D

when you collect are you actually keeping them for posterity, etc.


I guess so... I just like having really rare media. Like That's branded Taiyo Yuden CD-Rs made with Gold... Verbatim brand Kodak manufactured Gold CD-Rs from when Kodak OWNED Verbatim... a 63min CD-R from Maxell from when 63min CD-Rs was the standard (sadly burned already). Stuff like that :wink:

PostPosted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 12:29 pm
by jberry
if you have them all lined up maybe you can post a pic...unless you think that is too weird :D

PostPosted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 1:52 pm
by dolphinius_rex
jberry wrote:if you have them all lined up maybe you can post a pic...unless you think that is too weird :D


Sadly I don't have a good place to display them just yet :(

PostPosted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 8:35 pm
by Phoenix '97
Ooo it's grey! Does it match the colours of a DVD-RW?

What a cute kitty! :D Here's mine:
http://mercury.made2own.com/~eiiisol/bigcat.jpg

PostPosted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 8:50 pm
by Ian
As long as we're doing show and tell...