Dvds (bigger size)

cheekymole

Can you buy blank dvds with more than 4.7gb or is there a way to extend a 4.7gb disc?

wolfman

You mean dual layer discs?

Single layer dvd's offer 4.7gb storage, dual layer offer double that at roughly 9gb storage.

You'll need a dvd writer than can burn dual layer discs. They're still quite pricey too in comparison to single layer discs.

timmy_toad

for anything to do with Copying and/or Backing up DVD's i can recomend a forum at http://forum.doom9.org and the web site is excellent for programs and stuff
http://www.doom9.org

tim

cheekymole

Thanks Tim and welcome to MSE

Poppycat

Dual layer discs are still 2 expensive there bene out for several years now and hardly come down. I doubt there even make it now even teh next generation discs Blue ray and teh other one cant remember name now due out.

wolfman

Not sure about (ed) several years in terms of the consumer (not industry) but they've certainly been around for a couple of years.

Dual layer will drop eventually, just like single layer disc did (I can remember paying over £25 for 10 and paying £200 for my writer a couple of years back).

The next generation are Blue-Ray and HD-DVD which will store 25gb and 15gb in a single layer. They're likely to be very expensive when they emerge around May/June (from what I've read).

matty_c608

He said serveral???!!! Not 7....

matty_c608

My first pack of Rewritable DVD's were £50 for 10! Crazy!

dang

Try this program,its very good for backing up dvds that will not fit on a std dvd -

http://www.dvdshrink.org/what.html

POLDO_DONK

Just a little aside :rolleyes:

A Blu-ray recorder has been on sale in Japan for a couple of years now. The disc’s require caddy’s I believe, though I’m sure a ‘caddy less’ Blu-ray recordable disc is being worked on if not already here. It’s the Blu-ray Rom (movie) version that every one has been waiting for, though they’ve just authored the first Blu-ray disc (Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle :rolleyes:) for test purposes.

The grim scenario that is likely is that there will be a format war between Blu-ray and HD-DVD. Toshiba have said that they want to introduce HD-DVD Rom, with recordable versions to follow soon after the format launch.

Because of the different disc structures the two formats will be incompatible. Unlike the situation with + and – disc’s we are very unlikely to see a single drive that will take both Blu-ray recordable and HD-DVD recordable – madness! :eek:

The prospect of buying format specific software and the costs and incompatibilities that follow lay ahead of us….. :mad: