Dual Layer 8.5GB DVD+R comming in the future....

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Found this news article.. kind of interesting. Once this comes out we won't have to compress (transcode) our DVD9's in order to back them up!!!

http://news.com.com/2100-1041-5086733.html?tag=cd_hed

Dutch company Philips Electronics says it has developed a new technology with Japan's Mitsubishi Kagaku Media that nearly doubles the storage capacity of data on recordable DVD discs.

Philips, Europe's largest maker of consumer electronics and lighting, said Friday that its new dual-layer technology raised the capacity of recordable DVDs (DVD+R) to 8.5GB from 4.7GB for single-layer DVD discs.

The company said in a statement that consumers would be able to record four hours of DVD-quality video or 16 hours of VHS-quality video without the need to turn over the discs.

Philips said it would demonstrate the new technology at the CEATEC Japan 2003 industry show, which will be held from Oct. 7 to 11 in Makuhari, near Tokyo.

Mitsubishi Kagaku Media is a unit of Japanese chemical company Mitsubishi Chemical Corp.

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Group doubles DVD+R capacity
By Matthew Broersma, ZDNet UK

The group behind the DVD+R/+RW specification said dual-layer recordable discs will hit the market next year, allowing storage of up to 16 hours of recorded video


The DVD+RW Alliance, which includes major PC and consumer electronics makers, last week demonstrated a technique that promises to nearly double storage capacity on DVD+R discs.

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 hours of video at DVD quality or 16 hours at VHS quality. The dual-layer discs will remain compatible with currrent DVD+R-compatible DVD players and DVD-ROM drives.

The Alliance, whose members include Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Mitsubishi Chemical/Verbatim, Philips, Ricoh, Sony, Thomson and Yamaha, is pushing its own DVD+R/+RW recordable format against DVD-R/-RW, offered by the DVD Forum, the industry consortium that originally developed DVD.

The format war has led to consumer confusion and slowed the adoption of DVD recorders, since the two recordable formats are not compatible. Some manufacturers have attempted to skirt the issue by offering recorders and players that handle both formats.

Final dual-layer DVD+R specifications would be available within the year, with products on the market next year, said the Alliance.

Despite consumer confusion, demand for DVD burners has continued to increase. About three million recordable DVD drives shipped last year, rising to 50 million in 2006, according to projections from IDC.

Recordable DVD sales are being driven by computer makers such as Apple, Sony and Compaq, who are bringing the technology into the mainstream, and by the attractiveness of using DVD to timeshift and archive television programmes, according to IDC.

[alexnoe]

Group doubles DVD+R capacitySeems like someone needs a calculator for 8.5 / 2 ...

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but is it compatible with the current DVD+R writer in the market

[alexnoe]

Of course not for writing. Reading should work