Is a Blu-Ray Burner a Waste of Money vs. DVD Burner?

I'm building a computer and was thinking about putting in a Blu-ray reader/writer, but after reading reviews I'm thinking maybe just to put a regular DVD burner and save money.

From my understanding, blu ray burners don't copy blu-ray's well and you can't play it in standalone players.

So what good is it? Backup? Instead of 25GB, you can instead buy a flash drive or external hard drive.

My concern is whether future software will be on blu-ray discs instead of DVD's.

What do you guys think? Are people building with blu-ray drives or not?

Thank you.

Edit: Just read that you can't watch blu-ray via DVI cable, you need like an HDMI compliant montitor... so I guess it will be a huge waste of money. I'm still interested to see other people's thoughts on this.

Blu-ray burners copy Blu-rays very well IF you have an unencrypted disc, or a program to decrypt the encrypted discs.

NOTE: Keep in mind that purchased or rented discs are encrypted, and decrypting them is considered Piracy.

Blu-ray blank discs are still pricey and cost almost as much as buying a Blu-ray movie.

You could always get a BD-combo drive which reads Blu-rays and writes DVDs. Programs like BD-Rebuilder will take unencrypted Blu-ray discs and shrink the content for burning to a DVD. These AVCHD DVDs are playable in most Blu-ray players.

A DVD/CD read/write optical drive costs $20. If you don't know whether you need BluRay, buy that. Wait until you need BluRay and add it then. Total "waste" = max $20. Total potential savings = lots

If you want to buy DVD/CD + BluRay read only to play your BluRay disks, go as Morton suggested.

LordConrad got it right about the economics, ability, and ethics of making BluRay copies.