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Postby knesbitt on Mon Jan 06, 2003 9:55 pm

Are there any plans to develop dual layered recorders? If so when and by who?
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Postby Ian on Mon Jan 06, 2003 10:32 pm

No plans yet. The new bluray technology will make them obsolete anyway.
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Postby Derek on Mon Jan 06, 2003 10:40 pm

Dual layer recording would require engineering I've never heard of. The dual layered movies you buy at Best Buy or wherever are not burned, they are made in a stamping like process.

And Ian is right, Blueray is poised to knock them all out. :)
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Postby Kennyshin on Tue Jan 07, 2003 1:13 am

The sooner, the better.

Here I posted about a new PCI HDTV card planned for release two weeks later though it was announced four weeks ago.

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Postby Pradeep on Tue Jan 07, 2003 2:28 pm

How does it differ from currently available HDTV cards?
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Postby Kennyshin on Tue Jan 07, 2003 2:49 pm

Pradeep wrote:How does it differ from currently available HDTV cards?


To put it roughly:

Software HDTV PCI card vs. Hardware HDTV PCI card.

Like software DVD vs. hardware DVD (but not exactly.)

The CEO of a competing company (Sasem) which makes hardware-based HDTV card criticized about this cheaper product last month. It has less features and consumes more CPU power.
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Postby Derek on Tue Jan 07, 2003 8:01 pm

That's nifty. Now if I only had an HDTV...

Watching HDTV on my monitor would suck. :(
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Postby Phoenix '97 on Tue Jan 07, 2003 11:16 pm

Last time I heard, pressed dual layer discs were ~8.5GB per side...
You do have the option of buying double-sided DVD-R discs (4.7GB per side, 9.4GB total) if you'd like to back up movies greater than 4.7GB in size, using DVDXCopy or something, and still use one disc.
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Postby Kennyshin on Wed Jan 08, 2003 6:03 am

Phoenix '97 wrote:Last time I heard, pressed dual layer discs were ~8.5GB per side...
You do have the option of buying double-sided DVD-R discs (4.7GB per side, 9.4GB total) if you'd like to back up movies greater than 4.7GB in size, using DVDXCopy or something, and still use one disc.


Which costs more than buying two separate disks and is more inconvenient, awkward, and unsafe.
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Postby Pradeep on Wed Jan 08, 2003 12:14 pm

How is a double sided DVD-R more dangerous than a single sided one?
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Postby dodecahedron on Wed Jan 08, 2003 3:13 pm

Pradeep wrote:How is a double sided DVD-R more dangerous than a single sided one?

both sides of the disc are "vulnerable", more so than when only one side.
handling and storage more trickey.
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Postby Kennyshin on Wed Jan 08, 2003 6:18 pm

And no printable side! :D
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Postby knesbitt on Wed Jan 08, 2003 10:50 pm

Where do I buy double sided DVD-R?
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Postby Ian on Wed Jan 08, 2003 11:51 pm

knesbitt wrote:Where do I buy double sided DVD-R?


try hypermicro.com
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Postby Phoenix '97 on Thu Jan 09, 2003 12:33 am

knesbitt wrote:Where do I buy double sided DVD-R?

I think shop4tech.com has some too.
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Postby spath on Thu Jan 09, 2003 4:26 pm

> Are there any plans to develop dual layered recorders?
> If so when and by who?

Don't worry, research and development started long enough
ago to get it out at the same time bluray comes out.
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