Citizens of today will soon run out of reasons for dodging the Blu-Ray mania. Having primarily left the Blu-Ray buy fest to techie eager beavers, it seems there’s no more running away from them. Anywhere we turn today, we are surrounded by the Blu-Ray bandwagon.

Roxio, the self proclaimed leader in digital media recording and playback software, has released it’s first Blu-ray burning software. The Blu-ray software application is just one in a series of high definition support by Roxio.

The Blu-Ray software applications for pc drives enable the home personal computer for data backup on Blu-Ray disks. It also supports blu-Ray recording on BD-R, rewriting on BD-RE, Blu-Ray disk copying, and Blu-Ray format recording and playback.

Currently only Windows Vista compatible, it goes against the backwards compatibility of the blu-ray format. But then again, it’s made just for Blu-ray. It should be a caveat for Windows XP users still out there.

For the rest of you who still have that extra Blu-Ray burner lying around, Nero has also come out with its own Blu-ray support. It initially only supports Blu-ray disk burning, but other applications is not far behind.

This should put some good use to the LG internal Blu-ray GGW-H10N super burner HD DVD read-only combo drive released early May 2007. For $1,200 it really doesn’t do much justice to the 4x blu-ray burn speed, but even that is so far theoretical. It is capable of recording 50GB of data on dual layer BDR blanks, but with 4x speed, expect long waits on burning times. Keep in mind that it takes about an hour to burn 18 GB of data running on 2x. So make sure you have ample time on your cd burning hands when you get around to burning 50GB on 4x theoretical speed.

And if the $1,200 price tag won’t land you in therapy, perhaps buying one and THEN finding out about the next news will. Pioneer has released its own combo blu-ray BD/HD DVD drive for a measly $299. But the catch is, it can read Blu-Ray media up to 5x speed but only burn regular DVD and CD media, so you shouldn’t lose much sleep over it. But still, with the price difference between $1,200 and $300 just to be able to watch HI-DEF powered content and not being able to burn in HD quality? That has got to spell serious commitment in my book.

And as if reading our collective minds, TDK – the largest manufacturer of Blu-Ray disks, has officially launched the world’s first inkjet printable Blu-ray disk. Say goodbye to your generic all white collection of cd’s. The new blu-ray high def disks are inkjet compatible on the label side, of course. You can now print customized text and graphics directly on the label side any way you want to reflect the funky side of your personality. Now somebody go out and find me a blank blu-ray disk for under $20.00. GP