New DVD Burners Double Capacity

[Lord_of_the_Dense]

NEW YORK - If you just bought a DVD-burning drive for your computer and think that for once you're current with the latest and greatest, it's disappointment time. Manufacturers are soon launching drives that can store double the amount of data on a disc.

Sony Electronics says it will be shipping drives in about two months that accept blank DVDs with two data layers. Philips Electronics will start selling a similar drive in Europe in April, but is not saying when it will be available in the United States.

The write-once discs can store up to 8.5 gigabytes of data, or about 4 hours of DVD-quality movies, twice the capacity of regular blank DVDs. This means capacities for computer-burned DVDs are catching up with prerecorded movie DVDs, many of which are already dual-layer.


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[Rigger]

and now that the DVD coping software is illegal ...
although the prices are net carved in stone, I expect them to be higher than quoted

[philgorp]

good find i was about to buy a dvd burner
thanks.

[rastagard]

As someone who paid $300 for an 8X CD burner (Wow, I could burn a CD in under 10 minutes!) I can say that there will be no reason to hold off buying a single layer DVD burner before these come out. They are not only going to be expensive at first, but they will improve greatly as they become more prevalant, and cheaper. I will still probably buy one just before they drop in price sharply. So if you want to know the best time to buy one, just wait till I tell you I just got mine and within a month or two they will drop in price.In the meantime, you should go ahead and buy a single layer DVD, they are reasonably priced and I am sure the dual layer DVDs will still read and possibly burn the single layers. I am already on my second one, paid $350 for a 4X a little over a year ago, less than $200 for the 8X I just got. Not to mention that the media is always expensive and hard to find when it first comes out.

[LO There]

only 2? RG 3nd here a04/a05/a07. and i know i will need a deal layer drive.:rolleyes:
but with blue-ray on the way with 25GB and higher on one disk! which costs to make, the same as dvdr are today. ok forget backup! or how many movies/mp3 etc you can get on one disk!
what could it be used for in the home market.?
tv dvd recorder could do with something of that size.
anything else comes to mind?

[philgorp]

making random mp3 disks that will play for a couple of weeks

[LO There]

ok forget backup! or how many movies/mp3 etc you can get on one disk! ;)

the point here is to look ahead so you are ready for it,
and have some idea how to get the best out of new tech.
2 - raw video work will always need more room to play with.
anything else?!

[The Boinker]

the advantage to blue ray will be twofold, methinks.

1) We might get to see higher resolution, which would be really nice on the bigger screens.

2) No more 2 DVD movies

[LO There]

Originally posted by The Boinker
the advantage to blue ray will be twofold, methinks.

1) We might get to see higher resolution, which would be really nice on the bigger screens.

2) No more 2 DVD movies


Sony BDZ-S77 the world's first production Blu-Ray Disc video recorder. (http://www.unitethecows.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=4511)
now you can have higher resolution, as it is aimed at HDTV in japan.

as to 2. they only do that really to make it harder for the copier's. plus it always looks as if you are getting more. ;)