Blu-Ray Drives/burners
an article said Blu-ray industry claims to replace DVDs in 3 years. The HD-DVD/Blu-Ray war is hampering this. WB has dropped HD-DVD: see cnet article.
Sony BWU-300S Blu-Ray DL+DVDRW DL Drive SATA, available from sony $400, and $48 50GB & $20 25GB media
stores 50GB max. the price has come down from $1000. takes minimum 39min. to burn a disc. high data rate compared to cd or dvd. blu-ray drives will double in capacity to a max 100GB as time goes by, then the burn time may be 2 hours. prices are coming down. BD-R DL Write: 8x, BD-RE DL Write: 2x, BD-ROM Read: 8x, CD Read: 48x, CD-R Write: 48x max, CD-RW Write: 24X max, DVD Read: 16X max, DVD+R DL Write: 8x, DVD+R Write: 16X max, DVD+RW Write: 8X max, DVD-R DL Write: 8x, DVD-R Write: 16X max, DVD-RAM Write: 5x, DVD-RW Write: 6x
LG Black 6X Blu-ray Disc Burner & HD DVD-ROM Drive SATA Model GGW-H20L - OEM, available at newegg $230
BD-R: 6X, BD-RE: 2X, DVD+R: 16X, DVD+RW: 8X, DVD-R: 16X
LITE-ON Black 4X Blu-ray Burner SATA Model DH-4B1S-08 - Retail, available at newegg $240
BD-R: 4X, BD-RE: 2X, DVD+R: 12X, DVD+RW: 8X, DVD-R: 12X, DVD-RW: 6X
LG Black Super Multi Blu-ray Disc Burner & HD DVD-ROM Drive SATA Model GGW-H20L - Retail, available at newegg $250
BD-R: 6X, BD-RE: 2X, DVD+R: 16X, DVD+RW: 8X, DVD-R: 16X
LITE-ON Black 4X Blu-ray Disc Triple DVD Burner SATA Model DH-4B1S-13-VAC - OEM, available at newegg $200
BD-R: 4X, DVD+R: 12X, DVD+RW: 8X, DVD-R: 12X, DVD-RW: 6X, CD-R: 40X
Pioneer Black 4X Blu-ray DVD Burner SATA Model BDR-202BK - OEM, available at newegg $260
BD-R: 4X, BD-RE: 2X, DVD+R: 8X, DVD+RW: 4X, DVD-R: 8X, DVD-RW: 4X
HD-DVD Drives
warning: Toshiba has stopped support of the HD-DVD format (see and here). so I would not expect much more media to be available except what's still in stock in stores. The HD-DVD format is now obsolete. If you still have media that you want to make use of like movies, maybe one of these drives will suffice, if they are still available. SL media here.
Microsoft XBox External USB 2.0 HD-DVD Drive (readonly), available from nextag $96-110
article to connect it to your PC. not that there's any movies out there yet.