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Blu-Ray DVD Drive. Worth It?

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CrAsHnBuRnXp

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Kinda curious to know if a Blu-Ray drive is really worth it. Your thoughts on the situation.
 
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To preface, I am still a huge HD DVD supporter. But being the realist that I am, I went out and bought an LG Super Multi Blue drive (GGW-H20L) that will play both. It has the added bonus of burning BLu-rays and is a heck of a DVD/CD writer to boot!

Can't conplain about reducing the number of compnents in a system, but we are all well aware that hardware that tries to be too many things is bound to be good at most but not the best at many.

That said, I still haven't found fault in this drive to date.
 
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Blu-ray rom is only worth it if you are planing to watch blu-ray movies...where as a blu-ray burner, you can use it for the massive storage.
 
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if i went blu-ray, it woudlnt be for movies only. :) So that takes the ROM out of the equation.
 
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