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Re: Blueray software, was: What CDs and DVDs should we produce for lenny?



On Monday 17 March 2008, Mike Hommey wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 09:29:12AM +0100, Reinhard Tartler 
<siretart@debian.org> wrote:
> > Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> writes:
> > > On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 11:59:52PM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> > >>  2 small CDs per arch (business card, netinst)
> > >>  ~30 CDs per arch for a full CD set
> > >>  ~4 DVDs per arch for a full DVD set
> > >>  (total 353 CDs, 51 DVDs, 426 GB)
> > >
> > > Bluray image? Apparently there's been a winner in the format wars,
> > > and we could probably fit an entire arch on a single disc...
> >
> > Which brings up the question: Do we have some software in debian that
> > can create and burn BlueRay discs? AFAIUI, cdrkit/wodim is not.
>
> dvd+rw-tools is supposed to handle it.

My guess it will be 18 - 24 months before bluray discs will be worth 
worrying about.  Even then bluray disc(s) will take up about the same 
space as a CD set.

Phil.


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