Hot? Sony DVD-RW AND DVD+RW drive to unveil in October

[MrScott81]

For those still stuck (i know i am) between the +/- in the competing DVD standars, you can always wait for this drive to come out (model DRU-500A ). What's even better is that it will write at 4x and rewrite at 2x.
Also, for an opening price of $349 this will be a tough drive to beat!

 

[Mday]

Sony's solution is simple: the consumer electronics giant will sell an internal and an external PC drive that reads and writes to DVD+RW/+R and DVD-RW/-R discs

i think this contains more information, since the write once media are also important and are more compatible with current players. many players are -R compliant.

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NOTE: this thread does not belong here. it will get locked, or moved. most likely locked. Sure it is useful, but it does not belong here.

i do appreciate the news though =D

 

[RideFree]

NOTE: this thread does not belong here. it will get locked, or moved. most likely locked. Sure it is useful, but it does not belong here.

Scottdog,
I believe this is a "Hot Deal" as...
For one teetering on the brink (like me) with respect to the DVD write/re-write solution(s), I appreciate the fact that I did not make a serious error in pouncing upon one of the current DVD+/-RW drive deals currently available.

Thank God the "Free Speech" Ammendment also works on the AT/HD Forum.

 

[Smolek]

nice, just got to get that blank media costs down.

 

[tphong]

Thanks for the info. It should be a hot deal for those people like myself who had to strugle between different format. It's about time someone come out with this!

 

[krackato]

I'm going to be very happy to purchase one of these combo drives when it hits about $250-300. I wouldn't be surprised if this becomes one of the fastest selling DVD Writers in the industry upon release.

 

[Wolverine88]

bingo. this is what i am looking for. DVD+-RW and USB/Fireport.

 

[MrScott81]

NOTE: this thread does not belong here. it will get locked, or moved. most likely locked. Sure it is useful, but it does not belong here.

i think this actually is a hot deal...both for the price and the features...i don't see why it should be banned

 

[zxcvb]

I'm going have to sell my Candyne DVD now A04

 

[TheDon]

Price at Staples and use a coupon. HOT!

 

[cherrytwist]

I'm going to be very happy to purchase one of these combo drives when it hits about $250-300. I wouldn't be surprised if this becomes one of the fastest selling DVD Writers in the industry upon release.

 

[Keltron]

Mday, ridefree and cherrytwist... Who are you guys quoting ?!!

BTW i will also get this drive when it goes below 300

 

[mrbass]

"DeMoulin said Sony looked at adding support for DVD-RAM but the cost--about $20 for manufacturing, which translates to $75 to consumers--was too expensive, and consumers looking for a backup capability could use DVD+RW. "

what is DVD-RAM anyways? news.com article

 

[Smolek]

Originally posted by: mrbass
"DeMoulin said Sony looked at adding support for DVD-RAM but the cost--about $20 for manufacturing, which translates to $75 to consumers--was too expensive, and consumers looking for a backup capability could use DVD+RW. "

what is DVD-RAM anyways? news.com article

dvdram is another dvd format and is used a lot for data backup.

 

[Maverick]

what about support for writing CD-R and CD-RW? I'd still like to have that capability so I can ditch my cd burner so I'll have enough IDE channels without buying an additional controller.

 

[Controller]

This puppy will also burn CD-Rs at 24x and CD-RW's at 10x. Sounds like a great drive, but its a Sony. Sony has been known to add "features" to keep you from copying copyrighted materials.

 

[krackato]

Sony has been known to add "features" to keep you from copying copyrighted materials.

Yeah, I'm not a big fan of Sony drives, but the news.com article did say "Hitachi LG is also working on a drive that supports DVD-RW and DVD+RW formats and expects it to be available soon. " So hopefully this will be a trend and we will soon see Plextor, Lite-On and some of the more respectable drive makers follow suit.

 

[MrScott81]

speaking of backuping up dvd's how does the copying of a dvd work? can you just copy say "lord of the rings" on the fly or whatever? cuz i hate buying dvd's and then getting a scratch rendering them useless...

 

[kof]

mrbass - DVD-RAM is an older, cartridge based, incompatible format. More info here. I know, I support about 200 units fielded to the army, and on ALL of these the units RARELY buy or use any DVD-RAM media, they just play CD's and DVD's in them.
This sony unit looks IDEAL.

 

[Analog]

One can always wait for technology to improve and prices go down. At that rate, I should have never bought that IBM PC for $1600 back in 1983 with the single floppy, 320K RAM and Casette interface????

 

[Aztech]

There have been several threads about the various DVD Recordable formats.

DVD-RAM is not necessarily cartridge-based. You have the option of the cartridge type media or regular DVD-RAM discs. There are newer drives that are DVD-RAM/DVD-R. Supposedly DVD-RAM is the ideal format for data backup since it can be written and rewritten like a CD-RW (you can add and delete files). I don't think you can do that with DVD-RW (it requires wiping out the disk and starting over). Someone correct me if I'm wrong on that.

But my question is what is the advantage of DVD-RAM over DVD+RW in terms of data backup? Because other features being equal, DVD+RW can also write to CDs and DVD-RAM drives cannot.

 

[Dre]

Originally posted by: scottdog81
speaking of backuping up dvd's how does the copying of a dvd work? can you just copy say "lord of the rings" on the fly or whatever? cuz i hate buying dvd's and then getting a scratch rendering them useless...

No you can't. You first have to use a decrypter program such as "DVD Decrypter", to ripp the movie from the DVD. After that, it all depends on how big your original DVD was. The majority of newer DVD's are 8GB+. This means they will not fit on a 4.7GB DVD-R/+R. If this is the case, you will need to strip out unwanted content and/or reencode the movie at a lower bitrate. After you get the movie to fit on 4.7GB, you can just burn it with Nero or any other burning program.

For more information, check out: Doom9 or VCDHelp