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Super-Fast Dual-Layer DVD Writing

Posted by timothy on from the plain-white-wrapper dept.

An anonymous reader writes "If you've been putting off buying a dual layer DVD burner because they're so slow, check this out. The latest NEC drive burns dual-layer disks at 4x, writing over 8gb in 25 minutes. It also burns-single layer disks at 16x on both formats."

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  1. It's the media, not the drive. by explorer · · Score: 5, Interesting

    No, the drives have been cheap for awhile. It's the expensive media that makes it pointless right now. Last I checked, Ritek DVD+R dual-layer blanks were going for $9.50/each. Thanks but no thanks.

    1. Re:It's the media, not the drive. by AsnFkr · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Word on the street is after the holidays the prices of media will become reasonable. God I hope so. Cheap media is all I want for xmas.

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    2. Re:It's the media, not the drive. by xtink · · Score: 4, Interesting

      I agree I have a big problem pay more for a 10 pacl of media then i paid for the drive

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  2. When will the format wars end? by chrispyman · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Do the "do every format" DVD writers like this just mean that there will be no single DVD format, or will one format eventually win out? Then again, with DVD writers becoming almost, if not as cheap as CD burners, is there really any point in waiting to get a DVD burner?

  3. Pioneer DVR-108 does the same by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The pioneer DVR-108 has a 4x DL and a 16x for both single layer formats. I bought one for $10 less than the 107 which doesn't do DL.

  4. Re:Super FASTER Dual-Layer DVD Writing by mtnharo · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Nope that's the real URL. Looks like Toshiba's web developer decided the best way to access everything on their web database using encoded parameters. Ugly, but an interesting tactic to force people to enter through the main portal of the site.

  5. Sony to announce experimental 8 layer 200 GB ... by pentium69 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Here is an extract from this story http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/10540/

    Whilst we wait for dual layer media to tumble in price, we can satisfy our craving by contemplating this news release from PC World. According to this article, Sony has cast caution to the wind and developed an 8 layer 200 gigabyte Blu-ray disc. Although they have not decided whether to commercialize such a product, they are saying a 4 layer 100 gigabyte version is expected to hit the consumer market within the next 2 years.

    Do you think movies will be distributed on this media? DVDShrink compression ratio will be like 1% !!!

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  6. Re:I remember when CDRs were $10 each.. by Lord+Kano · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Back when I had a 1x writer. It was a deal and a half back then. Give the market some time, they'll come down to $1 a disc eventually..

    I got my first CD Burner in 1997. I paid $299 for an external SCSI from JVC when internals were going for the same price. The discs were outrageously expensive. I would need to do a good 15-20 minutes of prep work before I burned a disc just to make sure I wouldn't have a buffer underrun. They were WAY too expensive to waste.

    LK

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  7. Prices for blank dual layers by StateOfTheUnion · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I heard a rumor that part of the reason blank Dual Layer DVD's are so expensive (besides the fact that the technology is new and that margins are probably high at the top of the performance curve) is that production yields of dual layer blank platters are currently very low . . . Has anyone heard anything similar? Or was this a groundless rumor?