Dual layer DVD burners

[Racer^]

Recently Phillips announced a chip and process supporting the burning of Dual layer DVDs, meaning single-sided DVD+R 8.5 GB disks seem to be coming soon.

http://www.dvdrw.com/press/duallayer.htm

Does anyone have any more info, like perhaps a preview of an upcoming 2004 model DVD burner with support for this technology? Are they already in testing or is it just a paper launch?

[jerry the nipper]

I think they are talking about having something on the market by as early as next spring. Which is a pain for those of us who were thinking about buying a dvd burner now. Do we buy one now or hang on for a couple on months? I was on the verge of buying one of the new MSI burners, they have good specs and are selling at around the £100 mark. Has anyone got one of these drives? Sod's law dictates that the first dual format burners on the market will be rather expensive and the price will only drop 5 minutes after I have bought one.

[freedon]

Originally posted by Racer^
meaning single-sided DVD+R 8.5 GB disks seem to be coming soon.

shoot, my brand new DVD +R/RW -R/RW now officially becomes 'old hardware'

[BremenCulhaven]

It won't catch on much. Blue-ray will be out more mainstream toward the end of next year. Which holds over 30GB per disc. So, dual sided dvd burners at the home level will kind of be passed up before they can really take off. Wonder what their price target for them will be...

Cool if you want to burn current dvds and such, but as a storage format...pretty much vaporware. Would guess blue-ray will support partitioning so you can put multiple dvd movies on one disc and just play them that way. Makes me wonder in like 2005 or 2006 will movies come on blue-ray since you need much more storage space to have a movie in HDTV format which is what blue-ray is targeted for. Seems logical the movie houses would move to HDTV resolution for movies once the players are out more.

[ewitte]

Originally posted by BremenCulhaven
It won't catch on much. Blue-ray will be out more mainstream toward the end of next year. Which holds over 30GB per disc. So, dual sided dvd burners at the home level will kind of be passed up before they can really take off. Wonder what their price target for them will be...

Cool if you want to burn current dvds and such, but as a storage format...pretty much vaporware. Would guess blue-ray will support partitioning so you can put multiple dvd movies on one disc and just play them that way. Makes me wonder in like 2005 or 2006 will movies come on blue-ray since you need much more storage space to have a movie in HDTV format which is what blue-ray is targeted for. Seems logical the movie houses would move to HDTV resolution for movies once the players are out more.

I'm up for the 4 layer blu-ray drive in the storage-media forum. That 100GB/disc would sure be nice

Eric