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I was planning to get a DVD Burner this summer so I found this article on Yahoo! quite interesting.
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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.
The new technology is sure to appeal to those who back up or copy movie DVDs, since they often have to reduce image quality or remove special features to fit a copied movie onto a single-layer disc. With a dual-layer drive, an exact copy on a single disc should be possible.
The drives will be able to burn regular write-once and rewritable DVDs and CDs as well.
The Sony and Philips drives will use somewhat different discs. Sony calls its variant DVD-R DL. The Philips equivalent is DVD+R DL. Both disc types should be readable in standard DVD drives and players.
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Anyone else heard about these drives? I could really do with DVDs with over 8GB capacity. As I work with extremely large graphics and video files it'll be perfect for me.
*****
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.
The new technology is sure to appeal to those who back up or copy movie DVDs, since they often have to reduce image quality or remove special features to fit a copied movie onto a single-layer disc. With a dual-layer drive, an exact copy on a single disc should be possible.
The drives will be able to burn regular write-once and rewritable DVDs and CDs as well.
The Sony and Philips drives will use somewhat different discs. Sony calls its variant DVD-R DL. The Philips equivalent is DVD+R DL. Both disc types should be readable in standard DVD drives and players.
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Anyone else heard about these drives? I could really do with DVDs with over 8GB capacity. As I work with extremely large graphics and video files it'll be perfect for me.
it seems they are making it eisier to pirate, and make the pirates look good as well
adrian wrote:
> Also another interesting thing is that some of the newer drives now
> will be able to do dual layer with a firmware upgrade. Pioneer are
> reported to have tested there 106 model with dual layer burning so
> the current 107 should work with the firmware as well. Philips have
> also tried firmware on there latest drives and are actually suppose
> to be releasing a official firmware for there drives.
Woohoo!
*hugs 106*
My DVD burner is one of the best things I've bought recently, very handy. Will these discs work in all the standard DVD players and stuff?
> Also another interesting thing is that some of the newer drives now
> will be able to do dual layer with a firmware upgrade. Pioneer are
> reported to have tested there 106 model with dual layer burning so
> the current 107 should work with the firmware as well. Philips have
> also tried firmware on there latest drives and are actually suppose
> to be releasing a official firmware for there drives.
Woohoo!
*hugs 106*
My DVD burner is one of the best things I've bought recently, very handy. Will these discs work in all the standard DVD players and stuff?
Fooly Cooly wrote:
> Anyone else heard about these drives? I could really do with DVDs
> with over 8GB capacity. As I work with extremely large graphics and
> video files it'll be perfect for me.
Yeah months and months ago. Sony are the first ones to announce a drive and a price. Expect them here for at least £150 considering the Sony drive is suppose to retail at $299 US. I would say that it will be June/July before they start hitting our stores.
Also another interesting thing is that some of the newer drives now will be able to do dual layer with a firmware upgrade. Pioneer are reported to have tested there 106 model with dual layer burning so the current 107 should work with the firmware as well. Philips have also tried firmware on there latest drives and are actually suppose to be releasing a official firmware for there drives.
I have a old Sony U10A which is getting on to be 9 months old, cost £170 back in the day when DVD writers were closer to the £200 mark. I will upgrade to dual layer pretty much as soon as they are out depending on the price.
> Anyone else heard about these drives? I could really do with DVDs
> with over 8GB capacity. As I work with extremely large graphics and
> video files it'll be perfect for me.
Yeah months and months ago. Sony are the first ones to announce a drive and a price. Expect them here for at least £150 considering the Sony drive is suppose to retail at $299 US. I would say that it will be June/July before they start hitting our stores.
Also another interesting thing is that some of the newer drives now will be able to do dual layer with a firmware upgrade. Pioneer are reported to have tested there 106 model with dual layer burning so the current 107 should work with the firmware as well. Philips have also tried firmware on there latest drives and are actually suppose to be releasing a official firmware for there drives.
I have a old Sony U10A which is getting on to be 9 months old, cost £170 back in the day when DVD writers were closer to the £200 mark. I will upgrade to dual layer pretty much as soon as they are out depending on the price.
I was planning to get a DVD Burner this summer so I found this article on Yahoo! quite interesting.
*****
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.
The new technology is sure to appeal to those who back up or copy movie DVDs, since they often have to reduce image quality or remove special features to fit a copied movie onto a single-layer disc. With a dual-layer drive, an exact copy on a single disc should be possible.
The drives will be able to burn regular write-once and rewritable DVDs and CDs as well.
The Sony and Philips drives will use somewhat different discs. Sony calls its variant DVD-R DL. The Philips equivalent is DVD+R DL. Both disc types should be readable in standard DVD drives and players.
*****
Anyone else heard about these drives? I could really do with DVDs with over 8GB capacity. As I work with extremely large graphics and video files it'll be perfect for me.
*****
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.
The new technology is sure to appeal to those who back up or copy movie DVDs, since they often have to reduce image quality or remove special features to fit a copied movie onto a single-layer disc. With a dual-layer drive, an exact copy on a single disc should be possible.
The drives will be able to burn regular write-once and rewritable DVDs and CDs as well.
The Sony and Philips drives will use somewhat different discs. Sony calls its variant DVD-R DL. The Philips equivalent is DVD+R DL. Both disc types should be readable in standard DVD drives and players.
*****
Anyone else heard about these drives? I could really do with DVDs with over 8GB capacity. As I work with extremely large graphics and video files it'll be perfect for me.