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

[telecomtom at vedatel.com]

if i do buy them (assuming they even exist), i'll get a small quantity
till i know whether they'll work with the burners we have. but i'm
beginning to think they're just another urban legend, or that the mfger
realized that they were too radioactive for human consumption. i mean, why
else would victor-japan go to all the trouble of making the announcement
and then not sell them? beats me.

-- TT


"Richard Knechtel" <richard.knechtel at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a box of these "High capacity cdrs". They are a CompUSA brand. They
> are 90 minute 850 meg CDR's. I couldn't get ANY of my burners to burn to
> them over the standard 80 minute 700 meg. I even contacted the burner
> manufacturers and was told their burner didn't and wouldn't support them.
> And probably only a very small few would if I could even find any, because
> they broke the red book standard. So I have a full box of these things
> unused and I have had them sitting around for almost 10 years.  Even my
> newest lite-on dual layer burner and my plextor dvd burner won't even
> recognize the higher capacity.
>
> So take this as a buyer beware. Do your research -before- you buy any
> recording medium that says it will hold more than what 99% of the other
> mediums hold. Make sure that your burner or ANY burner for that matter
> supports it.
>
>
> At 07:14 PM 1/30/2008, GaveUp wrote:
>>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.
>>
>>--
>>GaveUp
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>>
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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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