I-O Data's DVR-UW8DP dual DVD burner copies discs without a PC

We thought we got away from the old disc-swapping shuffle when we graduated from floppy drives decades ago. But duping CDs and DVDs often involves a painful back-and-forth, or at the very least, dumping tons of files on your hard drive as an interim step. Fortunately, I-O Data seems to have a good solution: the DVR-UW8DP, a dual DVD burner that works with our without a PC, which will be available in Japan next month for ¥53,000 ($448). Without a PC, using it is as simple as putting a CD or DVD with data on it into one slot and a blank into another, and pressing one button. When connected to a PC via USB, it's a double drive that can be used to both play and burn discs. And, just in case you were wondering, no, it can't dupe protected commercial DVDs ... at least not without a little help.

[Via Akihabara News]

[MAZURY @ Feb 8th 2006 9:00AM]

US company from NY also has standlaone duplicators capable of copying from 1 to 600 discs.
www.mfdigital.com

[Kip HT @ Feb 8th 2006 9:02AM]

OOH! I want one now!!

But can it copy fake Dvd's (not that I have any... Yet...)

[cheaperwayis @ Feb 8th 2006 9:37AM]

Its cheaper to pickup a Dell bare bone pc (around $300 with coupon codes) and buy a DVD ROM ($20) and a DVD Burner ($35). This method will dupe any CD or DVD and then some.

[-j @ Feb 8th 2006 9:46AM]

I completely fail to get the pricing of DVD duplicators. DVD-Rom drives are less than $20, NEC-3550s cost around $40, add in a case, PS, and some circuitry, and you probably have a materials cost of around $100-150, and that's retail, not wholesale. So, why does a 1>2 DVD duplicator cost $500+??? As the above poster pointed out, you can get a whole computer for less than that!

[elektrotekno.com @ Feb 8th 2006 9:52AM]

Kip Ht, it can't dupe protected commercial DVDs
I think can't copy fake dvd

[daaper @ Feb 8th 2006 11:11AM]

-j,

you always pay a premium for size...that thing is a LOT smaller than a Dell mid-tower. I'm not justifying the price, but it's not something the average consumer can piece together for himself.

[anonymous @ Feb 8th 2006 12:26PM]

on line 5 you wrote our instead of or. it's tecchnical, but it confused me for a while.

[anonymous @ Feb 8th 2006 12:26PM]

on line 5 you wrote our instead of or. it's technical, but it confused me for a while.

[Shmee150 @ Feb 8th 2006 12:39PM]

I may have missed it but in the post it says "dual DVD burners", are both drives writers as well as readers?

I think that the point is that it's a little bit more portable than a whole computer if needs be, and as mentioned above, you pay for size.

ShMeE

[MuDoggy @ Feb 8th 2006 7:52PM]

SLI sells a chassy for your computer that can hold two slim slot load drives for $28. Then you get two Panasonic UJ-845's for $115.00 a piece and you've got this built in your computer for less than $300.
http://www.slidirect.com/product10-40.html
http://www.slidirect.com/product24-75.html

[Patiwat Panurach @ Feb 9th 2006 4:31PM]

Similar (but uglier and bigger and only supporting CDs) units to this have been around for years, for a few hundred bucks. I used one to make copies of a significant portion of a university's music library CD collection. When you're (illicitely) copying thousands of CDs, the speed and convenience of a one-button device like this matters. The problem, though, is that these devices often don't read flawed discs as well as using EAC.

[Bill @ Feb 10th 2006 4:20AM]

So, what does it take to make this able to, uh... make an "archive" copy of my movies.

[dm @ Feb 10th 2006 11:48AM]

ily has a unit out http://shop.ily.com/P_1268.htm

list is 429 i think the street price will be 350 to 400 bucks soes the same thing!!! and out right now!!!

dm