OMG!! 1.3 Gigabyte CD-RWs released!!!!

[Anonymous65]

The Optodisks works fine for me...

[rsuave5]

ive been burning dvds for general sale for a while and ive tried the meritline /for my system they work good 1 in 4 would error maybe aand id lose a disc 1 in 10 maybe. well my customers had trouble with them ive since gone back to memorex and i shoot 100% WITH THEM, NEVER AN ERROR. i pay 4 bux plus shipping at buy.com i buy like 50 at a time so it comes out to like 4.30 a disk and to me its worth it only for ease of use and great compatability

[Anonymous65]

A price scanning site does not always list the lowest price. You also need to know where to look.

[zanos]

Have either of you guys tried to play the optodisk or memorex in an apex and been successful?

[ChevyNo1]

Anybody see the new DVD+RW drives at Fry's for $199 after $50 mail in rebate? Can't tell what brand they are from the ad . . .

- Dug

[thxkid]

I can go to Compusa any time and get TDK DVD-R's for $4.50 each or Compusa brand(made in usa) for $3.99, but I have used the primedisc and tried them on APEX, Panasonic, Sampo, Daewoo, Pioneer, Sony and AKAI DVD players and each played them perfect, then again I am using a Home DVD recorder the panasonic DMR-E20, plus the primediscs for $1.60 each sure are WAY better than any VCD or SVCD CD-R disc, in quality and trouble free use.

[DigVidLab.com]

Great, a day late and a buck short... Just as DVD is going around $2
a whack... Nice move, but just way too late in the game to try to
make it sellable.

Now, had they dont this say 2 years ago... whoah!

[erzug]

For the $199, I'll bet the Fry's DVD+RW burners are 1st generation (i.e., no DVD+R burning capability).

[erzug]

Regarding the 1.3 GB CD-R's, would you be able to burn a VCD on one and would any standalone player be able to play it back?

[solarfox]

Actually, they did have these 1.3Gb "double-density" CD-R's two years ago... I remember reading about them quite some time ago, and the local Fry's has had the blanks for over a year. (They even had the drives for a few months, but they've since disappeared from the shelves with no sign they intend to stock any more.)

But being a Sony proprietary format that only worked in their particular drive, and being that they were far more expensive when first introduced than they should have been (IIRC, it was something like twice the storage capacity for five times the price), the market pretty much ignored it - especially since most people figured that DVD-R was going to come into its own before much longer, and start following the same falling price-curve as CD-R did.

Regarding your question, Erzug - no, this wouldn't work. Those 1.3Gb "double-density" CD-R's can only be read in a double-density drive - and, as far as I know, the only DD-CD drives which exist are the DD-CDRW burners themselves; Sony never did market a read-only DD-CDROM, and I would be astonished if even their own CD/DVD players can read them.