News HD-DVD for Xbox 360 confirmed

Hmm.
DVDRs. About £5 for 25 of them.
Thats 153 DVDRs for a full backup. Or about £30.
Lets asume you backup once a month. Thats £360. For a static backup.
Over two years, thats £720. For 24 backups.
£720 would buy you alot of external HDD space, and would allow a few hundred, if not thousend, full backups.
Long term, a HDD solution is cheaper.

Love the hypocracy. Cant be bothered to archive to optical media, prefer buying bigger HDDs, but have just been arguing about optical media.

 

no no you dont understand, i only backup the data once
i dont backup all 700gigs nce a month, once something is on a disc i mark it as backed up
gets deleted if i run out of space other wise its just left there

i do archive to optical media, im just lazy so dont like the hassle of having to use hundreds of discs
hence large capacity opticals are awesome as they reduce the amount of effort i have to put in

 

meh, Rev0 ftvv!

 

Agreed. Though I'm more irked by how every one of the TV sets and monitors in my house are useless for them, thanks to HDPC. And I know I'm not alone; that will likely cause them both to flop and the few suckers out there who bought each drive for the even fewer HDCP-compliant screens out there are even further screwed. Yeah, I'm an early adopter, but I have a gut feeling (or at least hope) that the overimposed restrictions will be the death of both of them.

Yeah, they have every right to try and protect their content, but aside from the fact that every content protection scheme so far has failed utterly, HDCP doesn't help protect content in the slightest (and, of course, pirated material won't 'require' it to be output in an hdpc-protected stream, further promoting piracy!).