I want to get a blu-ray rom player in the least but was thinking of getting a burner. I was looking at prices of blu-ray blank discs though and was wondering.... How many GB's is a blu-ray movie; do I need to buy dual layer discs, or will they fit on single layer (<25GB)?
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Not a direct answer, but you may wish to read this first. Note that high-capacity HDD prices have come down even further since this post.

http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/70757/?o=20#529596

So he should get an Hd-dvd/Blu-ray burner? Just so you know burning a blu-ray disc takes approx 1:30 mins or even 2 hours I've seen on benchmarks. It's slow as hell. It would be interesting to know how much space a blu-ray movie takes, maybe if compressed it can fit on a dual layer disc, now wouldn't that be interesting?

Meats of Evil said:
Most movie DVDs these contain a bunch of crap I never watch: previews of other movies, subtitles, multiple languages, special comments, multiple angles, deleted scenes, etc.

When you take those away, I bet in some cases you would eliminate 50% of the storage requirements... especially when I see things on the box like, "Now contains over 6 HOURS of new material!!!!"


Meats of Evil said:
That's definitely not what I would suggest. I am an advocate of using a high-capacity disk drive(s) (portable, if you need portability) instead of optical media for high-capacity requirements. My demonstration in the referenced post of the cost, size, and durability advantages of HDD v. especially Blu-Ray optical media is substantial.

Being able to plug a portable HDD into just about any computer using just about any major OS these days doesn't hurt either.


edit- to clarify my position on the 'extra' material added on DVDs to a simple movie. I'm sure that filler material is of interest to some people (maybe like 5% of the market?)...but not to me. I buy my DVDs to watch the movie...period. Also added analysis of a new movie DVD.

Damon F said:
I, too, can't answer that specific question. What I would like to mention though is that it might not be possible to copy movies because of content-protection methods built in to the disks, players, and burners. I'm not saying it is impossible but I highly doubt it is easy.

AnyDvd cracked it a month after it's release, It works in the background doing the job automatically after inserting a dvd.
I have anydvd and it has cracked every security out of every dvd I've put on my dvd drive and it updates very frequently.

http://www.slysoft.com

If you look on the AVS Forums, you will find a step by step procedure on how to burn a HD DVD or Blu-Ray movie on a Double Layer DVD with no loss in Picture/Audio Quality. It’s quite time consuming and IMO not worth the time.