Touchwood Studios Posted July 4, 2004 Share Posted July 4, 2004 I was reading about the new dual layer DVD's that are out-9 GB on one side. This price of the drives are cheap about $200.00. But I have not seen the media prices yet. Anyone know how much they will cost? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slowly Posted July 4, 2004 Share Posted July 4, 2004 The media was supposed to be released June 30. Estimated prices to be around $15.99 per disc. Kcbass "Let It Be!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip OKeefe Posted July 4, 2004 Share Posted July 4, 2004 At those prices I think I'll just stick with the current stuff for a while - heck, I saw a 8X DVD-/+ R/W burner the other day for around $75... and with blank media under a buck, it just doesn't make sense to me to be an "early adopter" of the new stuff right now. Of course, I might feel differently if I was doing data backups of HUGE files and sessions, but I can normally get at least a couple of songs worth of data onto a single 4.7 GB DVD, and I don't hate swapping disks all THAT much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boosh Posted July 4, 2004 Share Posted July 4, 2004 When I started making music I used to put 1 song,... 4 tracks on a cassette tape. PingPonging I called it,...bouncing tracks etcetera. Then I switched to a PC and started using cubase and my hard disc. I burned copy and could easily fit all the material of 20 songs on a blank CD about 650MB. Now I have a dvd burner and sometimes I use 3 gigs on a dvd to burn audio files of just one song. Have my songs improved? NO I started out with a 10 gig harddrive PC and 128mb memory,... I never ran out of memory and drivespace. Now I have 2gigahertz of memory and a 200 gigabyte harddrive and sometimes I ask to much of the processors and my disc is full,.......I just burned 20 dvds to back all my shit up. When I had the Atari ST with outboard gear I wrote and produced 2 songs a week. Now I write and produce 1 a month and 2 good ones each year,........Shit I sometimes long for JUST ME AND MY GUITAR AND A BOTTLE OF GIN. Fan, nu pissar jag taggtråd igen. Jag skulle inte satt på räpan. http://www.bushcollectors.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boosh Posted July 4, 2004 Share Posted July 4, 2004 Gsus,... I just re-read that message,...I am tipsy forgive me for the Moron English. Fan, nu pissar jag taggtråd igen. Jag skulle inte satt på räpan. http://www.bushcollectors.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Touchwood Studios Posted July 5, 2004 Author Share Posted July 5, 2004 Originally posted by Kcbass: The media was supposed to be released June 30. Estimated prices to be around $15.99 per disc. Kcbass$16.00 Per disc. When a 4 GB DVD is under a buck! Crazy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt.Hepworth Posted July 5, 2004 Share Posted July 5, 2004 Even worse than the price is that fact that it takes 1 HOUR to burn a dual layer disc at current speed (2.4x). No reason whatsoever to do it right now. No matter how good something is, there will always be someone blasting away on a forum somewhere about how much they hate it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimmieWannaB Posted July 5, 2004 Share Posted July 5, 2004 This reminds of when VHS and Beta decks cost over $1,000 and only came with a wired Play/Pause remote. It rarely makes sense to be an "early adopter." Wait a year and the price will come down plus the initial kinks will be worked out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slowly Posted July 5, 2004 Share Posted July 5, 2004 Looks like the estimated price has went up! Kcbass "Let It Be!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drumrob Posted July 8, 2004 Share Posted July 8, 2004 Hi all, I'd agree that most of us should wait and not be early adopters. I am looking forward to the shake out of the Dual Layer DVD-Rs, as I am a video and DVD producer. When we create DVD-9 discs, the only current way to proof them is to write two separate 4.7 GB DVD-Rs, "simulating" where the layer break should occur. You don't really see the real deal unless you get a check disc from the replication plant. It will be great when dual layer DVD-Rs are affordable, and when they get the coompatibility rate up - right now they are not as reliable as single layer DVD-Rs. For music production, they are just a bigger "bit bucket". It will only mean you can get almost twice the amount of data using the one disc. So if you already have a DVD-R burner, it's not worth the move for now. (Also watch out - the first burners were DVD+R, not DVD-R, so you have to watch out that it's the format you prefer). Rob Rob Neidig R & R Creative Productions Eugene OR reneidig@mindspring.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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