The Blue-ray media is a good choice for data backup, even though the price of a Blu-ray burner is $1,000. Blu-ray media is available at about $1 per GB, and the difference in price between write-once and re-recordable is not big. $1 a GB is high price to pay for storage, and it's cheaper to simply buy hard drives and a removable bay and use these.

Despite, Blu-ray discs media’s low error-rate and being good for thousands of rewrites, its price-tag is high, making one consider Hard drives as a cheaper alternative. Hard drives take up more space than a disc. But the media prices are so high, that wipes out any potential benefits that Blu-ray offers. The Bravo XR-Blu from Primera - is a $5,000 system that allows automated backups to be made using Blu-ray media. The drive prices are expected to fall to sub-$200 and media costs about $ for 2-3GB before it gains any traction over recordable DVD.

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Ricoh, Japan a global leader in digital office solutions has introduced their latest 16x DVD+R drive with Video Content Protection System that safeguards DVD's against data theft ( video only ). The only requirement is that the special key, used in buring the DVD, makes the DVD run only on a HP or a Philips DVD player / burner.

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