Toshiba-Samsung Temporarily Stop Making Optical Drives

[SteelCrysis]

http://www.kitguru.net/components/optica...al-drives/
Interesting.

[RolloTheGreat]

http://www.kitguru.net/components/optica...al-drives/
Interesting.

I don't believe you.

Didn't GStan say I was crazy last year when I noted I consumed content over the internet like everyone else, not viewing physical media on optical drives?

Then laughed at my stats on the decline of physical media on DVDs and BluRays and the rise of digital delivery?

Said something about how everyone is still buying games on physical media as well?

Kitguru must have been paid off by STEAM or, worse, M$!!

[BoFox]

Problem is, many have capped monthly internet bandwidth - while games and movie streaming can easily rack into the hundreds of gigabytes limit. 

I guess I don't care too much for them.  Let them riot against the providers like Comcast!  As long as my Verizon FIOS isn't capped, I guess I'm ok with digital delivery, but I'd like to see more of blu-ray discs for games.  I'd rather have a game install in a matter of around 10 minutes rather than 2 hours over Steam downloading at 58 Mbps. 

Blu-ray drives are still selling for around 2-3x that of DVD drives.  Problem is, most aren't buying blu-ray drives yet.  Therefore, PC games aren't being released on blu-ray media, unlike PS3 games from 10 years ago. 

I'd blame the cost of blu-ray drives.  Most don't use PC's to watch blu-ray movies, so what's the point of spending 2-3x more than a dirt cheap DVD drive?  Both sides are waiting for something to happen first...