HD Burn?

[Dougmeister]

So Sanyo is selling this HD Burn technology in the Optorite drives.

Do you guys think it will really catch on as an industry standard, and if so, how long 'til we see it in, say, a Pioneer DVD burner?

[RAAGAAman]

Nope. Why would you want it? I guess if you were backing up data to one drive that supports HD Burn that would be good. The data is only visible in a DVD-ROM/Player that has a FW upgrade to support HD Burn. Sanyo is a little too late to the game with this feature. A DVD burner does the Job and you get 4X the data.

RG

[tompika]

Anyone know if they ever release HD burn Floppy Disk Drives technology?

[nicw]

I have a new model Optorite drive that support HD-BURN and I have tried it and its interesting. Sanyo state that a standard DVD reader could read them with no hardware change but a simple firmware change. They informed me that they are pushing to have other manufacturers make these simple changes.

I somehow personally don't think it will take off unless users demand it. If the changes to burners are simple enough and they get more CD-R media to work with it, then maybe, I really do doubt this however.

To test it I purchased some MAXELL CD-R80XL-S media. It performed flawlessly and wrote 1.4GB to the 700MB CD. I burned some standard data disks and some DVD-VIDEO format discs. Reading in the Optorite drive PowerDVD 5 had no problem playing it back as if it was a DVD.

I find this more interesting that anything that serious.

cheers
nicw

[indolikaa]

After visiting http://www.ssct.co.jp/bpcenter/en/list.html I found that only the Sanyo and Accesstek engines had been certified for HD-Burn. OK, I know, Optorite uses a Sanyo engine...

I personally like the feature. It's great for all those WMA files I've created over the last few years. Granted, if my Optorite takes a dump I may have issues, but that's why you always make two copies of everything, right?

As for its adoptance, I think Sanyo's got a better chance than Sony's DD-CD. Reason? Look who controls the mass-market side of consumer electronics, i.e., Wal-Mart level merchandising...

RCA/GE and Sanyo/Fisher. RCA/GE will whore anything to make a few pennies, so I could see an HD-Burn alliance here quick, fast and in a hurry. Apex and others will support it. Of course, whether they remember to pay the licensing fee or not is another issue...

Just an opinion.