Will there ever be double-sided dual layer media?

[ndaher]

Does anybody have any information on if DOUBLE-SIDED dual-layer discs will ever be released? Until that time I see no reason to buy a DL drive, because I can get 9.4 gigs on a double-sided single-layer disc as it is, why would I spend all that cash just to fit the same amount of data on a disc?

Also, does anyone know when DL media will start becoming more available? As of right now you can find it maybe in 2 online vendors if you're lucky, for around $8 a disc. I remember when DVD-R's, and even CD-R's were at this point, but it seems DL price drops and media availability is progressing even slower.

[iooi]

On the first point you make. You wont have to get up to change the disk over.... Some people are lazy like that...On any 2 sided d/l who knows...
2nd point seem to remember seeing something about manufactures having a too higher failure rate in production of d/l disk. If they cant make them in high enough numbers the price wont fall...

[ultra911]

There are some dvd that are huge in, and any compression done to fit on a 4.7gb single-layer size will weaken the quality, especially those tv-series dvd.

why would you care about the availability of the DL disc, when you're not going to buy a DL drive and rather have a 9.4gb disc for more the data storage.