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HD-Burn. What about support?

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coomarlin

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I haven't heard much talk about this, but the technology seems to work really well. I burned 1.4GB of data to a standard CD-R and it worked perfectly. No special software needed to read the disk or anything. Nero 6.0 seems to support it well. Sanyo developed the technology and some drive makers have adopted it, but it's not wide spread. The price ratio is outstanding. Considering that most CD-R media is basically free now adays. 1.4GB of starage for pennies is pretty darn cool in my opinion.

I know the trend is to go DVD for everything, but for simple backups of things that are from 750-1400MB this seems like a pretty good solution. It would just be nice if more drives supported it.

Any opinions on the technology? I would guess that some manufacturers don't want to get involved in licensing a techology that might take some of the "thrill" of DVD away. I'm sure that they would need to pay some type of licensing fee to sanyo, although I'm not positive.
 
My Optorite 4x DVD burner has it. Sweet. The only problem is that there are few drives that can read the 1.4gig CDR.

Lou
 
I've only heard of optorite drives doing it. Dunno what other drives can read them. How do you like the optorite 4x dvd burner, LouPoir?
 
Originally posted by: Bassyhead
I've only heard of optorite drives doing it. Dunno what other drives can read them. How do you like the optorite 4x dvd burner, LouPoir?
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Yeah I'm pretty sure Sanyo invented the technology and as far as I know Optorite is the only one who uses it so far. It's kind of a shame because what I've seen it works fantastic. It would be nice if all of the manufacturers would at least support the "reading" of HD Disks.

So far my optorite 8X drive is great. Haven't made a coaster yet. I mentioned in another thread that I rented a movie from the video store the other night and noticed that the media was really dirty. I cleaned it as best as I could and tried to rip it. When ripping slowed down a bit when it got to the 37 Minute mark of the movie, but worked its way through it and finished with a good rip. The next morning I took the same movie to work and tried ripping it on my NEC 1300a just for comparison purposes. The NEC got a CRC error and spit the disk out when it reached the 37 minute mark. It was pretty cool knowing that the Optorite handled the poor media better than the NEC. I used the new version of DVDShrink on both computers.
 
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