Posted 02/06/2009 at 09:52:23am

Is anybody having this problem with BR disc: they are very scratch prone. I have to handle them very carefully. And this is one reason to postpone BR deployment in corporation and home. CD was easy to destroy by scratching but you have to put effort in it (you can use CD disc in kindergarten and all of them will play).  DVD’s are more easily broken (my kid just reloads DVD and after a while DVD is unplayable, I am not talking about shooting DVD across room).  BR is the worst. What is good coming from 50 GB of date on BR disc if one invisible scratch makes it unplayable?

And for external HD: they are the future. Small, easy to transport and connect, huge capacity and rewritable.  No one will choose BR 50 GB disc over 200GB external portable hard drive.  Not to mention DRM problems with BR.