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3 Replies Last post: Nov 17, 2004 9:37 AM by HumanJHawkins

MW Forums

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Aug 2, 2004

Nov 16, 2004 7:50 AM

Sony double-layer DVD burner coming in Dec.

Sony on Tuesday announced plans to ship its DRX-710UL-T DVD burner in December. The Macintosh-compatible external double-layer DVD burner features FireWire 400 and USB 2.0 interfaces, and comes with Roxio's Toast 6 Lite DVD burner software (Nero software is provided for Windows users). Double-layer DVD burning means that DRX-710UL-T users can burn up to 8.5GB of data -- about 4 hours of MPEG-2 video -- on a single DVD+R DL disc. It's designed to be vertically mounted on a desktop. more

roadwarrior

256 posts since
Aug 30, 2004

1. Nov 16, 2004 8:57 AM

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DVDSP compatibility?

I know they imply that it works, but can DVDSP recognize and utilize the second layer?

M2inOR

19 posts since
Jan 20, 2002

2. Nov 16, 2004 8:57 PM

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Re: DVDSP compatibility?

Unless Sony supplies a DRprofile for the drive (or you patch OS X using PatchBurn) you will NOT be able to use iTunes, iPhoto, Finder Disc Burning, or DVD SP.

Looks like Sony is simply adding Toast Lite to get the Mac support.

You could use DVD SP to make a disc image of your project, then use Toast to burn the disc image.

HumanJHawkins

538 posts since
Jan 22, 2003

3. Nov 17, 2004 9:37 AM

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Re: Sony double-layer DVD burner coming in Dec.

Is 16x a physical limit for DVD reading? Does it have to do with how fast you can spin a disk without it flying apart? I'm just wondering why things progressed fairly quickly up to 16x, but have now stalled for 1+ years?

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