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Sony debuts dual-layer DVD burners
News Sony announced on Tuesday two new drives supporting dual-layer discs for DVD recordable formats, enabling storage of 8.5GB of data. Both drives read and write to DVD+/-R, DVD+/-RW, CD-R and CD-RW discs as well as to DVD+/-R dual and double-layer...
[May 4, 2005, 9:55]
First Blu-ray spec finished
Talkback The blue-laser technology will allow greater storage capacities, up to 50GB for dual-layer rewritable disks, compared with 4.7GB on current DVDs quote] In my opinion you can not compare the capaticity of a single layer DVD with a dual layer blue...
[February 25, 2005, 8:09]
Watchdog slams flipper format
News A Warner spokesman said the film was produced as a flipper because the technology to produce dual-layer discs was not available at the time. He promised that all the bigger titles in the future will come out on dual-layer disc.
[June 7, 1999, 9:45]
HP backs Blu-ray DVD format
News HP is one of the first companies to announce the inclusion of Blu-ray Disc, a blue-laser technology that enables storage of up to 50GB on a dual-layer disc. HD DVD discs store up to 30GB on a dual-layer disc.
[November 17, 2004, 7:50]
Win one of five NEC DVD writers
News In the first of these competitions we have five NEC ND4550 dual-layer 16x DVD recorders to give away. GB of data can be stored onto one dual layer DVD, compared with just 4.7GB on a regular DVD - that's nearly four-and-a-half hours of movies...
[December 16, 2005, 12:15]
NEC sees blue and red in DVD future
News The format for HD-DVD, also known as high-definition and high-density DVD, specifies a 20GB rewritable disc and a read-only disc with 15GB on a single layer and 30GB on dual layers. DVDs read by red-laser drives can hold 4.7GB on a single layer and...
[December 19, 2003, 9:20]
Microsoft and Intel join next-gen DVD fray
News Blu-ray allies expect to launch their products in the spring, Gordon said, including support for both 25GB and dual-layer 50GB. HD DVD starts at 15GB, but Toshiba announced a 30GB dual-layer disc last week.
[September 27, 2005, 9:10]
PS3 to play with Blu-ray
News Blu-ray Discs can hold 25GB on a single layer and 50GB on the dual-layer discs, while HD DVD discs -- which have yet to be released -- will hold only 30GB on a dual-layered disc. Sony officials will use Blu-ray Disc technology in their next...
[August 6, 2004, 9:10]
InterVideo DVD Copy review
Reviews It can also generate a perfect uncompressed (1:1) copy of any disc that's small enough to fit on one DVD, and it can back up a dual-layer disc without compression by splitting it between two pieces of DVD media.
[September 22, 2003, 12:20]
Apple Power Mac G5 (dual 2.7GHz) review
Reviews Although the Apple Power Mac G5 has only one optical drive, it's been improved to a 4X DVD+R double-layer drive (it also handles DVD±RW and CD-RW discs). The double-layer support seems designed to coincide with the inclusion of the high-definition...
[June 10, 2005, 12:35]
Panasonic readies Blu-ray DVD
News Matsushita Electric Industrial said its Panasonic DMR-E700BD model, announced on Wednesday and scheduled to hit the market on 31 July, in Japan, supports single-side, dual-layer Blu-ray Discs with a maximum capacity of 50GB.
[July 1, 2004, 10:40]
DVD it's a revolution
News Dual layer disks which can store 7.95GB Dual-layer, double-sided DVDs can handle a whopping 17GB, equivalent to 26 CDs worth of information. With around 500 titles available in the U.K.by summer, DVD aficionados are getting pretty excited about the...
[May 14, 1999, 16:26]
Apple Power Mac G5 (dual 2.7GHz): a first look review
Reviews The SuperDrive is now 16X (up from 8X) and also double-layer. VAT) but now includes dual 2.7GHz processors, ATI's 256MB Radeon 9650 graphics card and a 250GB hard drive. You can also select two 400GB drives, for a total of 800GB of storage; the...
[May 13, 2005, 8:35]
Cool CD Burner
Downloads The Cool CD Burner can burn Blu-Ray BD-R, BD-RE, Dual Layer DVD+R, Dual Layer DVD-R, DVD+RW, DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD-R, DVD-RAM, CD-RW, and CD-R in Track at Once, and Disc at Once formats. The program can also burn audio CDs from MP3, WMA, and WAV files.
[March 6, 2008, 15:50]
Group doubles DVD+R capacity
News At the Ceatec trade show in Japan, the Alliance demonstrated DVD+R discs that comply with the dual-layer DVD-ROM standard, already used with standard pre-recorded discs. The dual-layer format will allow a DVD+R to hold 8.5GB (up from 4.7GB), four...
[October 13, 2003, 17:30]
Double-layer DVD heats up standards battle
News Dual-layer recording has not been available to the average consumer in the past. Both the plus and dash groups have created prototypes of dual-layer recording technology. Dual layer is a great sort of incremental turn of the technology crank," Gerr...
[December 30, 2003, 10:20]
Apple MacBook Pro: a first look
Talkback The superdrive is 4x and does not support dual layer, a step back, The fly in the ointment: The fastest external port is a 480mbs USB 2.0, pray for a 34 express firewire card soon, What happens to those of us who have to use some windows apps?
[January 19, 2006, 16:34]
CoverUp
Downloads The keys are password protected and different files can be assigned with different keys so as to add an additional layer of security. CoverUp uses proprietary dual-key multiple stage encryption algorithm to encrypt files so that the files can only...
[March 5, 2003, 14:21]
Single-Layer Cuts for Multi-Layer Network Design Problems
White Papers On several realistic two-layer planning scenarios, the paper shows that these cutting planes are still useful in the multi-layer context, helping to increase the dual bound and to reduce the optimality gaps.
[January 9, 2008, 0:01]
Joint Congestion Control and OFDMA Scheduling for Hybrid Wireline-Wireless Networks
White Papers The convexity of the problem enables a well-established dual-based approach to decompose it into two subproblems, the transport layer source rate adaptation and the Medium Access Control (MAC) layer multiuser OFDM scheduling, which are connected...
[April 19, 2007, 1:00]
