Top 5 Reasons to Buy a Blu-Ray Burner

Why Should I Get a Blu-ray Burner?

Blu-ray burners are the new darlings of the electronics industry and rightly so. With our ever increasing need for more storage and data, Blu-ray discs fulfill the need with their huge data storage capacity. Their increased storage allows for higher resolution movies, ever more complex games, as well as storing larger video, image, and data files on a single disc. With prices of Blu-ray burners dropping dramatically every day, there are fewer and fewer reasons not to get a Blu-ray burner.

Using a Blu-ray Burner for data backup

Blu-ray discs have the capacity to store up to 25GB for a single-layer disc, or 50GB for a double-layer disc. This very reason alone makes it the perfect solution for storing data backups. The dimension of a Blu-ray disc is the same as a standard CD or DVD. But a Blu-ray disc can hold over 35 times more data than a typical CD-R disc. To back up a typical 250GB hard drive would takes hundreds of CDs, but would only require about 5 double-layer BD-R discs. Add to that the timesavings from switching out blank discs and it’s hard to argue the advantages of owning a Blu-ray burner drive for backup purposes.

Burn High Definition Movies With a Blu-Ray burner

There are already home video cameras that are capable of recording movies in full 1080p high-resolution images. With a Blu-ray burner, you can easily burn those movies onto disc and play your home movies in high definition on an HDTV.  Save movies of your family and kids in the latest technology, and get the crisp clear images from Blu-ray technology. Of course you will need either a Blu-ray burner drive for the PC, or a desktop Blu-ray recorder, but the realm of high definition video is now in the hands of the average consumer.

Store Music, Video and Files With a Blu-ray Burner

A Blu-ray burner drive is perfect for doing large data backups, but what if you just need to store random files? With Blu-ray, you can store more music, more video clips, and more personal files than ever before. You can quickly transfer files from hard drive to disc with less worry about disc space. In the future, personal and portable audio products will be able to play music off of Blu-ray discs, which means you can cram more of your favorite albums and songs onto a single disc. Imagine thousands of hours of music all on one disc!

Experience More Immersive Gaming

A Blu-ray burner drive can also serve as BD-ROM reader. The Sony PlayStation 3 already has a BD-ROM drive built in which allows for games with much larger game data to be fit on a single disc. As game developers start to develop bigger, better, and more immersive games, they will require larger and larger storage space for these games. A Blu-ray burner drive on a PC will allow for faster data access without swapping out discs.

Copy Movies With a Blu-ray Burner

Of course we don’t mean illegal movie copying. That would be against the law and unethical. However the law does allow you to make backups of movies that you own. A Blu-ray burner will allow you to make said backups and play those movies from your backups instead of from your actual retail copies. This saves and protects your movies from damage and scratches. And since Blu-ray movies are all digital, there is no loss of image quality while using the backup.