i heard at the start of 2004 there will be 9gb DVD 9 recordables on the market is this true??, also the said it just needed firmware to do it???, i pasted from the website
[4.3.9] When will recordable DVD-9s be available?
Dual-layer recording is much trickier than single-layer recording. However, dual-layer recording techniques developed for Blu-ray (see 3.13) have been adapted for recordable DVD. Write-once (+R and -R) recordable DVD-9 discs, which hold almost double the amount of data or recording time (see 3.3), should show up around the end of 2004. Dual-layer rewritable discs are harder to get working, but they may show up a year or two later. Recordable drives will cost about the same as regular drives (since only firmware changes are required to record two layers) and the discs will cost between 1.2 to 3 times as much as single-layer discs.
Philips first demonstrated dual-layer +R at CEATEC in Japan in October 2003. They expect the discs to be readable in about 70% of existing players and drives. Also in October, Pioneer announced a dual-layer version of -R, but they did not demonstrate it.
will require a firmware update????/
is this true
[4.3.9] When will recordable DVD-9s be available?
Dual-layer recording is much trickier than single-layer recording. However, dual-layer recording techniques developed for Blu-ray (see 3.13) have been adapted for recordable DVD. Write-once (+R and -R) recordable DVD-9 discs, which hold almost double the amount of data or recording time (see 3.3), should show up around the end of 2004. Dual-layer rewritable discs are harder to get working, but they may show up a year or two later. Recordable drives will cost about the same as regular drives (since only firmware changes are required to record two layers) and the discs will cost between 1.2 to 3 times as much as single-layer discs.
Philips first demonstrated dual-layer +R at CEATEC in Japan in October 2003. They expect the discs to be readable in about 70% of existing players and drives. Also in October, Pioneer announced a dual-layer version of -R, but they did not demonstrate it.
will require a firmware update????/
is this true
