DVD-9 supported DVD Burners?

[tammudu]

Hi,

I am newbie here and yet to buy a DVD burner.

I want to know which DVD burner supports DVD-9 disc format?

https://www.videohelp.com/glossary#DVD-9

Thank you

[Vanderlow]

I belive none at this time, but with the recent annoucements by Pioneer and Phillips of making progress in this area some speculate burners may come out around spring time.

[Vejita-sama]

Short answer is none. People use to say that this is not likely to ever happen, and I think that's still true. The media (R&D only) has been made but still no burner, and if/when they do make it it's going to cost. On the other hand DVD+/-R drives are here now.

If you wait long enough something better will always come along

[tammudu]

The reason for my question is recently I purchased the Hindi(Indian language) movie which contained 2 movies in 1 DVD.

http://search-desc.ebay.com/search/search.dll?srchdesc=y&query=2in1+Hindi+movies&MfcIS...ty=MetaEndSort

Initially I thought they are goof, b'cos traditional Indian movie length is around 2 1/2 hours and my first question was how could they fit 2 full length movies on a single disc?

Then I downloaded a tool (DVD Decrypter) to verify the type and contents of that disc. From that I came to know that it contained 2 layers (DVD-9)
The size is 8,079,413,248 bytes.

Later I came to know that they are pirated DVD's.

http://indianwatchdog.netfirms.com/consumers/2in1.html

That comes to my question, So how did they manage to burn the DVD-9 disc when the DVD burners for DVD-9 format are not available in the market?

[Tommyknocker]

Apparently, pirates have access to the same equipment major distributors do.

[MeTaLgEaRsOoTy]

ive bought a few of those dvds.
arent they pressed,just meaning that you would haev to rip the dvd and put 1 film on 1 dvd,and 1 on another.

[Vejita-sama]

Yeah a lot of HK/Taiwan bootleggers have the machines to press out discs (not burn them). Burning would really take to long