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New DVD Burners To Double Capacity
clester writes "CNN reports that new dual-layer DVD-burning drives will be released very soon by Philips and Sony that will double the capacity of DVD drives, making a complete copy of your dual-layer DVDs theoretically possible. It will use dual layer technology that will hold up to 8.5GB, and will cost around $230 for an internal and $330 for external, burning all 8.5GB in approximately 45 minutes."
Now I can finally back up my porno collection to 10 easy-to-find dvds...*phew*
The drive is $250, the blank DVD is $75.00 :-P
So the 'dd' command is illegal now?
How am I supposed to fit a pithy, relevant quote into 120 characters?
It's just you. My advice is to stay away from open sores. The really cool stuff is on Windows.
But where's Blue Light?
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
I don't have usb 2.0 or firewire. will this come with a serial adapter?
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That's a great marketing strategy!
1) Make drives cheap (everyone buys one). Make media expensive (Few people buy in any quantity).
2) Lack of media in circulation + paranoia over screwing up a burn and wasting $75 = fewer individuals using technology (lower piracy rates?)
3) Profit!
=Smidge=
maybe for a day - i'm sure Final Fantasy XIV will be a volume of ten dual-layered double-sided holographic cubes. or is that longhorn/office/(insert any MS product name here)?
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If I wanted a dual layer DVD, I'd just put two of them in the drive at the same time.
Me, I'm waiting for *triple*-layer DVDs. Now that'd be something. Yessiree. Yessiree *bob*.
- undoware.ca
My only backup concern is my .emacs file, and at 420M a cd burnder does just fine.
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Well, the typical Mac homosexual will gladly pay 4x the normal retail price as long as it looks cool. Maybe Sony can put a transparent door on the thing or give it a cool name like iDVD, then the flamers will gobble it up.
cp? What if the bits move from some medium into volatile memory? Something one might do in order to process and render them?
:( I'm nothing more than a common theif. Where do I turn myself in?
I'm a criminal
What if I take the bits on some kind of "bus"? What if... what if... ah the hell with it. I'm going to Moe's.
Pirated Xbox games are just around the corner!
No, I'm New Here
Just glue two of the suckers back to back
Nah, just cut a notch on the other side from the first one.
"Oh my God. This is terrible. This is the end of my Presidency. I'm fucked."; ~ Donald J. Trump
So now we can look forward to boxes and ad flyers with specs like "8XDVD+/-R DL 8XDVD+/-R 4XDVD+/-RW 16XDVD-ROM 48XCD+/-R 8XCD+/-RW 48XCD-ROM"?
I mean, I know what that all means, but it still makes my eyeballs want to scurry behind my ears and hide.
"Where did you get your $75 price from?"
He read it in this other article.
"Derp de derp."
Last I checked 2 * 4.7 GB was 9.4 GB, not 8.5 GB.
Are they holding back 0.9 GB to preserve a threshold against piracy?
(Note: units for DVD capacity are metric.)
As opposed to what? British Units?
Can I get an eye poke?
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In 20 years this won't seem like enough memory. We'll hardly be able to fit a single small sized Micro$oft Super Duper Word (or whatever they'll think of to call it by then...) file on one.
Three cheers for technology. Hip Hip Hooray!!!
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Where did you get your $75 price from?
:)
Canada.
I like you, Stuart. You're not like everyone else, here, at Slashdot.
Well, certainly movie DVDs are that way - I'd imagine they'll get around to the double-sided burnable variety soon enough, but having to turn over a disc to use the other side went out of favour back in the old days of 5.25" floppies.
I've had a fantastic idea; maybe it's already possible to use both sides of writable CDs and DVDs in the same way that you could do it with 5.25" floppies- you cut a great big notch at the edge.
I definitely think that you should try this excellent tip on your collection of "backed up" movies and MP3s this instant (*).
(*) The MPAA paid me to say that.
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Nah, if you make the blanks too expensive people will just start downloading them off the Internet too. Goddam brats are just too smart!
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