Dual layered DVD burner

[d3n]

Does anyone actually have a 9.5 Gig dual layer DVD burner yet? I have only heard about them in passing.

 

[jrphoenix]

Nobody has one yet... I will be getting one in the near future! The reason why nobody has them is they were just announced as an upcoming release for Sony Story. The last paragraph says there dual layer drives (not media??) will not ship until the end of the second quarter (May).

 

[d3n]

Originally posted by: jrphoenix
Nobody has one yet... I will be getting one in the near future! The reason why nobody has them is they were just announced as an upcoming release for Sony Story. The last paragraph says there dual layer drives (not media??) will not ship until the end of the second quarter (May).

the article stops short of saying that it can produce an exact copy of a full featured dvd. Sticky legal issues aside that is the ultimate goal of a dual layer dvd burner is it not?

 

[katcher40401]

i was under the impression they would only go up to 8.5 if u wanted dvd-9...i'm not sure if anand posted that or sumwhere else...but i definitely read it sumwhere

 

[Sid59]

Originally posted by: katcher40401
i was under the impression they would only go up to 8.5 if u wanted dvd-9...i'm not sure if anand posted that or sumwhere else...but i definitely read it sumwhere

dvd 9 = under 9 gigs because of the conversion of bits to bytes.

 

[NightCrawler]

Originally posted by: Sid59

Originally posted by: katcher40401
i was under the impression they would only go up to 8.5 if u wanted dvd-9...i'm not sure if anand posted that or sumwhere else...but i definitely read it sumwhere

dvd 9 = under 9 gigs because of the conversion of bits to bytes.

That's wrong to, orignally it was going to be a 5 gigs disc and dual layer was going to be 9 gigs, this was way back when they were still arguing about DVD in the late 90's. To make everybody happy and add the features that the DVD forum members wanted the 5 gigs had to be reduced to 4.7 Gigs and 9 gigs went to 8.5 gigs. It's of course measured using the metric standard and NOT binary so 4.7 Gigabytes is really 4.38 Gibibytes.

 

[katcher40401]

hmmm...okay so is there a 9.5 gb media and if so is it the same dvd-dl we all have been talking about or is it a completely different standard?

 

[OddTSi]

There are 9.4GB DVD-Rs out today (and have been out for a while), they are dual-SIDED discs. Dual-LAYERED recordable discs will be 8.5GB just like 99.9999999999999% of the movie DVDs out there.

 

[KristopherKubicki]

July - Earliest.

Kristopher

 

[katcher40401]

okio thanx!

 

[jrphoenix]

Originally posted by: d3n

Originally posted by: jrphoenix
Nobody has one yet... I will be getting one in the near future! The reason why nobody has them is they were just announced as an upcoming release for Sony Story. The last paragraph says there dual layer drives (not media??) will not ship until the end of the second quarter (May).

the article stops short of saying that it can produce an exact copy of a full featured dvd. Sticky legal issues aside that is the ultimate goal of a dual layer dvd burner is it not?

It is for me.... That is what I have been waiting for (DVD copies without compressing the data more). I can't wait..... The media will be expensive at first but well worth backing up a DVD collection!

 

[jrphoenix]

Originally posted by: OddTSi
There are 9.4GB DVD-Rs out today (and have been out for a while), they are dual-SIDED discs. Dual-LAYERED recordable discs will be 8.5GB just like 99.9999999999999% of the movie DVDs out there.

This is definately right........ the movie industry's discs are 8.5 Gb dual layer.... we will be able to make perfect backups of our DVDs with these (can't wait for the price of media to drop as this standard is adopted).

 

[hahher]

Originally posted by: jrphoenix

Originally posted by: d3n

Originally posted by: jrphoenix
Nobody has one yet... I will be getting one in the near future! The reason why nobody has them is they were just announced as an upcoming release for Sony Story. The last paragraph says there dual layer drives (not media??) will not ship until the end of the second quarter (May).

the article stops short of saying that it can produce an exact copy of a full featured dvd. Sticky legal issues aside that is the ultimate goal of a dual layer dvd burner is it not?

It is for me.... That is what I have been waiting for (DVD copies without compressing the data more). I can't wait..... The media will be expensive at first but well worth backing up a DVD collection!

if media is really ~$10 per disc that's half the cost of the dvd. moreso if the dvd is multi disc. 50% warranty policy is horrible. better just save the money and use towards hd-dvd collection

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: KristopherKubicki
July - Earliest.

Kristopher

Is that ***OFFICIAL*** and ***CONFIRMED***?

- M4H

 

[AIWGuru]

Bah. I've been on "Vacation" so I haven't been able to post until now.
Dual Layer DVD (DVD 9)

is 8.5 base 10 GB
That's 7.91 base 2 (real) GB
Similarly, DVD 5
is 4.7 base 10 GB
and 4.38 base 2 (real) GB.


Single layer = 4.38GB
Dual Layer = 7.91GB

 

[KristopherKubicki]

M4H: No

Kristopher