WTF!? Bill G reckons DVD will be dead within 10 years

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I'm waiting to see the discs before I buy a new burner. Anyone know what the going rate is for these new DL discs?

 

DL discs are verry hard to come by and are verry expensive, here in holland a single DL disc will set your back 15-20 euro's :Hangman:
For a 8,5 Gb disc, while you can buy a 10 pack DVD -R 's for the same money giving you 45 Gb instead of 8,5.

 

A few things that will make or break a media for the mass market.


A) Cheap to produce
B) It is durable
C) Will be backed up by all of media.
D) Looks "simple".


Lets take the example of BetaCam VS. VHS. Back then Betacam, and still does, has a much higher picture quality than VHS. It also looked wierd and complicated whereas VHS was a simple looking tape that looked like a DAT tape. BetaCam was more expensive to produce/buy but it held more data than VHS but VHS was cheaper to produce.

If a product meets those requirements then it will be around for some time.

 

I thought VHS beat beta because all the porno vids at the time were VHS, orso i have read somewhere :smt043

 

Aw hell. I just bought a dvd burner last march. I figured dual layered disc were already out and it would burn them. Am I going to have to buy another or can I get some kind of driver update, flash something, ect?

 

The only dvd burner i know of that can be flash u[graded to dual layer is the NEC2500.
For all others i'm affraid you might need to buy a new one (not that their that expensive the nec2500 is sold here for 80 euro's)

 

you should wait... dl burners are 2.5x it takes like 46mins to burn a disc.... just wait until it atleast is 8x