HD Burn

[Johnny Fist]

I was just looking for some informed opinions on the relatively new HD Burn feature on some new DVD+/-RW drives out there. I've been using it to back up some personal data on my system but have since noticed its only read by the drive I burned it with (Optorite DD0203) which is cool with me. I was just wondering if more drives will begin to accept this feature. I'd also like a link or two to some webpages discussing the topic as well. Anyone out there have some pros or cons?

[BipolarBill]

Dunno what we're talking about here. Could you elaborate?

[Johnny Fist]

HD Burn Link (http://www.digital-sanyo.com/BURN-Proof/HD-BURN/index.html)

I was just wondering if anyone had any insight as to whether or not HD Burn technology would become more of a standard or if this is going to go the way of the betamax.

[Amd4ever]

I don't have any links.

I don't think HD-BURN will be widely used. It will eventually die out.

The reason is because soon CDRW drives will die out in favor of DVDRW drives. DVDRW drives let you burn DVD's which can hold up to 4.7 gb of data compared to just 1.4 gb for HD-BURN.

[Johnny Fist]

Yeah, but they're still a bit high priced I think. I can get a 100 pack of cdrs over here for $25 USD with a $20 mail in rebate. For the price I can't beat it.

[bassman]

A nice link: http://www.digital-sanyo.com/BURN-Proof/HD-BURN/

And my on-the-fly opinion: it won't glue because, 1) DVD media will see it's prices drop considerably on a near future 2) "A written disc by "HD-BURN" technology is compatible with a DVD player, and allows the player to read the disc with some modification of firmware." They should have tought of this before DVD players got so widely spread in the domestic market, IMO no one is taking their players on for a firmware upgrade just because of this "enhancement", 3) "Sanyo (...) will propose to other DVD drive manufacturers that they adopt this technology as an industry standard" yeah right, we've seen how standards aproval goes within the DVD manufacturers gang, 4) "HD-BURN support is being requested to the major application manufacturers" when this, among others, is acomplished, the DVD standard will have gained even more market share

Already hassles about it, read under "Weaknesses": http://vcdhelp.pricegrabber.com/rating_getprodrev.php/start=25/order=/sort=/product_id=860524/id_type=masterid/form_keyword=/ut=d53a5050b1206a68