HD-Burns (high-density)

[Kingnog]

Well, I just found out yesterday (yes, im slow) what the HD-Burn option in nero does. For those of you who dont know, it allows a cd or dvd burner to write 1.4gb of data onto a cd-r. Of course, the burner has to be compatible...and thats what my question is about.

Is it possible/is there/do you think there will ever be a firmware upgrade that will allow dvd burners (like the gsa-4040b) to burn high density cd-r's?

[ViRaL1]

Supposedly it's just a firmware update from Sanyo. However, drive manufacturers have to license it and modify it for their drives. Not too many companies have gotten on the bandwagon yet since licensing = $$.

[Kingnog]

Well...someone should seriously create a firmware update that supports HD-burns for the lg gsa-4040b. 3rd party, whatever..

[donkey_puncher]

My 8X Optorite DD401 has HD-Burn and it works really well. I've tried it a few times and haven't had any problems at all. But to be honest, I probably won't use it much considering that no other companies other than accesstek has adopted it. I could use it to back up my own data, but if my Optorite drive ever fails and I end up buuying another type of drive than the disks will be rendered useless. It's a shame that more vendors haven't adopted the technology because it works well.

[Kingnog]

It's a shame that more vendors haven't adopted the technology because it works well.

Yeah, they were a little late. If they had done it befoe DVD burners became popular....it would have been great!

[indolikaa]

Sony has something similar called DD-CD, but I haven't seen that adopted by other manufacturers, either.

It's too bad. It's a great go-between format.

[LanEvo7]

I think Sony's technology required you to buy special discs, sanyo's works on regular cds.

[indolikaa]

Sony requires a proprietary media?!

Actually, I didn't know that.

I should clarify: HD-Burn is a good go-between format.

[LanEvo7]

Yea, but I think the tradeoff was that it could be read by ANY regular cd-rom drive.

[indolikaa]

You speak as if you bought into this format.

[LanEvo7]

I did do some research on this subject since back a couple years ago, DVD burners were expensive and this seemed to be a nice alternative.

I decided against it since:
1) The discs were proprietary to Sony and it seemed that only Sony was backing it.

2) The 1.3 gig discs were expensive. I think they ranged from $5 - $10 a pop. Regular CDRs had fallen below the $0.50 mark by the time I think.

3) It seemed that Sony used some sort of "protection" scheme on the discs for AV data. Not sure how well it worked but I didn't need the hassle of finding a way around it.

CDRinfo had an extensive article about it and you can still read about it.


All being said, I feel that Sanyo's solution is still a good one right now. I frequently do not want to use two CDRS or waste a full DVDR to burn certain files. To bad they want a licensing fee for it and thats probably why it hasn't gained popularity.

[MOVIEGEEK]

It's a shame that more vendors haven't adopted the technology because it works well.

Yeah, they were a little late. If they had done it befoe DVD burners became popular....it would have been great!

I agree,Sanyo entered the optical media game late and if HD-BURN came out two years ago most drives today would support it.I've only made two HD-BURN discs and doubt I'll use it much now that DVD media is <$1ea.

[Kingnog]

I'd use the HD-burn only because I need to transfer large files between computers, and my other 2 (laptop and other desktop) don't have dvd-drives...