This is about the same way that CD and DVD burners started - very, very expensive drives with very, very expensive media.  The first consumer CD burners were in the same price range and media cost $25+ PER DISC!  Now you can get a CD burner for $50 and 1000 CDs for $10!
http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid5_gci508949,00.html

See the last paragraph and be sitting down... ;)

And they still made coasters.  Now they'll just be blu-ray coasters...

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but when you do, you blow your whole leg off.

 -- Bjarne Stroustrup

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