[Newlug] 8.5GB DVD rewritable disc: fact or fiction?

[GaveUp]

Not having followed the links this reminds me of higher capacity cdr's I
read about years ago.  If I recall this was done by modifying the drive
so it wrote smaller "blocks" on the disc (Shorter wavelength maybe?)
I'll look around and see if I can't dig up some info on these discs.

On a completely off topic and not really that surprising but still
"nifty" note, gcc versioning was found in the initial boot up code on wii's.

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On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, telecomtom at vedatel.com wrote:

> i'm looking for the following DVD medium:
> 
> http://www.jvc-victor.co.jp/english/press/2007/vd-w85a.pdf
> 
> "The new products have a single sided recording capacity of 8.5GB, which
> is similar to the single-sided Dual Layer DVD-R discs and 1.8 times
> recording capacity of conventional single-sided DVDs. In addition to the
> space saving advantages provided by the new DVD-RWs, superior operability
> is attained through deletion and rewriting of data. The new DVD-RW discs
> are both economical and environmentally friendly as they can be reused
> repeatedly."
> 
> anybody ever bought one of these things? they were supposed to be on the
> market as of august 2007 but i haven't found any.
> 
> the company that makes them is Victor of Japan:
> http://www.jvc-victor.co.jp
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