Will DVD+R9 double layer media get cheaper any time soon ?

[penbat]

It is just too expensive to justify buying them as single layer DVD is so much cheaper.

[sunderland]

its coming down its only 3 pound a disk here
http://www.bigpockets.co.uk/product.php?lang=&gad=&photo=&product=DVR91036-5&session=4...fe9eebb055ea4c

[RabidDog]

No.

[lordsmurf]

No.

[Edmund Blackadder]

Yes it will. Today I went to Staples and saw Verbatim 3 pack DVD+R DL for $24.98. Just two days ago it was $29.98. Last month it was $34.98. So yes, the prices are coming down.

Also, this was not any kind of sale or discount, it just said that the price was lowered. So I expect that the price will not go any higher anymore and will keep falling. So don't listen to pessimists.

[lordsmurf]

$25 per 3 discs is still wholly unreasonable.

[Edmund Blackadder]

$25 per 3 discs is still wholly unreasonable.

Well, if you do "backups", that is mostly unreasonable, unless the store bought DVD costs $20 or more to replace. But for the original content that's not too bad.

Back to backups. I have lots of European PAL DVD's that after currency exchange end up costing well over $25 each, and often a lot more. I think backing up those to a $9 DL disc is not such a bad deal.

[krupted]

its taking a long time, but i wonder if thats because movie manufacturers are trying to stop the ease of dubbing. You can straight record a dvd-9 pretty easily, at least you wouldnt need to compress it first.


Other than that im sure theyre just milkin it for all its worth like anything else.....

I wouldnt pay more than $1 per dvd-9, so i guess itll be awhile before i get to them

[fritzi93]

I'd happily pay $2 bucks apiece, but I'm not holding my breath. However, it wasn't so very long ago that DVD5 blanks were more than that.

[louthewiz]

No.

Yo leave my J-HO alone,and some dl dvds are going down in price.

[DRP]

its taking a long time, but i wonder if thats because movie manufacturers are trying to stop the ease of dubbing. You can straight record a dvd-9 pretty easily, at least you wouldnt need to compress it first.


Other than that im sure theyre just milkin it for all its worth like anything else.....

I wouldnt pay more than $1 per dvd-9, so i guess itll be awhile before i get to them

It's more because of lack of competition in manufacturing. Verbatim are the only manufacturer I believe so they can charge what they want and do. The other reason is that the manufacturing process is quite problematic with a high failure rate. Something like 50% of the discs made fail tests and are rejected, so you're paying for all the scrapped discs as well as the one you get when you buy one.

With the other mnaufacturers concentrating on blue ray and HD-DVD instead it is unlikely there will be anymore competiton in the DVD+R9 market soon, but having said that prices are still expected to drop in the face of upcoming competition from the new formats. $4/disc is what I read can be expected by year's end which is still ludicrously expensive for what they offer compared to DVD+R5

[Gen-An]

Ricoh, Ritek, Prodisc and Philips I believe manufacture DVD+R DL media, so MKM doesn't exactly have a monopoly, though in terms of disc quality they practically do.

[TerminalVeloCD]

CMC are getting into the act too...

[stone1721]

I saw Fuji dvdr dl at frys last weekend they were 24.99 for a 3 pack.Still to rich for my blood........I always look for the good bargain though.
KEEP BURNIN

[krupted]

blueray or hdvd wont be much of a competition since regular dvd players cant read them

in a few years they will probably all be dvd-9s- if they can figure out the technology well enough to bring the cost on par with dvd5s

if they can make them with the same efficiency there wont be a reason for dvd5's anymore....

[lordsmurf]

$25 per 3 discs is still wholly unreasonable.

Well, if you do "backups", that is mostly unreasonable, unless the store bought DVD costs $20 or more to replace. But for the original content that's not too bad.

Back to backups. I have lots of European PAL DVD's that after currency exchange end up costing well over $25 each, and often a lot more. I think backing up those to a $9 DL disc is not such a bad deal.

I don't "backup" here either. It's still unreasonable.
Duplication costs alone, wholly unreasonable.
Customers are not willing to pay it, so I cannot either.

Even by late 2001, the MCC00R20 media was $6 each.
The Pioneer was the only one at $9 each.