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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 In my opinion you can not compare the capaticity of a single layer DVD with a dual layer blue- Ray- disk. The 4.7 GB is the capaticity of a single- Layer-DVD. The blue-laser technology will allow greater storage capacities, up to 50GB for dual...
[February 25, 2005, 8:09]
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]
HP backs Blu-ray DVD format
News HD DVD discs store up to 30GB on a dual-layer disc. 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.
[November 17, 2004, 7:50]
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 HD DVD starts at 15GB, but Toshiba announced a 30GB dual-layer disc last week. Blu-ray allies expect to launch their products in the spring, Gordon said, including support for both 25GB and dual-layer 50GB.
[September 27, 2005, 9:10]
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]
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. Like its predecessor, the DVD, the BD-ROM will primarily be used for...
[August 6, 2004, 9:10]
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]
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 But the so-called "dash" camp promoting the DVD-R and DVD-RW formats also is working on dual-layer recording, which involves writing data on two separate surfaces, layered like coats of paint, on a DVD.
[December 30, 2003, 10:20]
Super Clone DVD
Downloads Copy a dual-layer (DVD9) movie into one DVD5 with all the Special Features , Menus, Subtitles & Languages. Super Clone DVD,backup DVD without quality loss . With the high speed DVD Copy Engine, Super Clone DVD has the abllity to backup DVD9 disc
[May 31, 2007, 8:00]
ArchiveMac
Downloads Single layer 4GB and dual layer 8.5GB. ArchiveMac is an application for Mac OS X Leopard which supports archiving large files to CD and DVD. Need a way to save those precious memories that fill up your drive with files that are too big to archive...
[September 8, 2009, 20:39]
Five years ago: Hitachi rockets DVD into mass production
News The GD-1000 drive has a 4.7Gb capacity using single-layer, single-sided DVD disks, and that will grow to 17Gb capacity using dual-layer, double sided DVD disks and focus-jump pickup technology. The drive will not read current CD-R disks due to the...
[January 13, 2002, 6:01]
Massive storage discs unveiled
News The first is a disc that will store 50Gb of data -- compared with 17.5GB on a dual-sided, two-layer DVD disk -- which Maloney believes will be used initially to store digital cinema which can used upto 30Gb.
[April 18, 2000, 15:19]
Move over DVDs, here comes the HVD
News Single layer Blu-ray discs hold about 25GB of data while dual-layer discs hold 50GB. The consortium said an HVD disc could hold as much data as 200 standard DVDs and transfer data at over 1 gigabit per second, or 40 times faster than a DVD.
[February 4, 2005, 9:00]
JVC trials Blu-ray/DVD combo disc
News A reflective film lets a blue laser read the outer Blu-ray layer, and a red laser passes through the film to read the dual DVD layer within. JVC said it created the combo disc using a three-layer structure, two for DVD and one for Blu-ray.
[December 30, 2004, 9:10]
