I-O Data's dual DVD-writer: still PC-less but faster than ever

Remember I-O Data's dual-DVD burner released last year? Yeah, that one. Well, it's back and better than ever. Bumping the model name from DVR-UW8D to DVR-UW8D2, their newest super duper bumps DVD and CD write speeds across the board. Of course, it still does its thing (dupe non-commercial CDs and DVDs with a single button press) without the assistance of a PC. An expensive trick for the ¥53,000 (about $430) price it'll snag.

[Via Impress]

[KingDeb8r Posted Jun 20th 2007 8:23AM]

WOW! So, it will copy "Non-commercial" dvd's and cd's without a pc! So, if I put in an unprotected (torrent anyone) burnt dvd I can copy them without a pc! - Time to setup a market stall at my local car-boot sale - and offer black market dvd's on the fly!

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 20th 2007 8:30AM]

Yeah! Then, when the cops come, you can just nuke the $450 unit instead of your whole PC!

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 20th 2007 8:39AM]

You won't have to, it's not like it stores the data after it burns it, right?

[Tombio Posted Sep 4th 2007 1:32AM]

I rememeber having one occasion this thingie would have come in handy. I had to produce some 30 copies of a software product we made for our client, and it was a pain in the *** to burn all those on a couple of pc's.

Oh wait, selling those cd's to our own customer made them commercial, so this device would have been of no use to us anyway, right?

[Tombio Posted Jun 20th 2007 9:13AM]

I remember having one occasion this thingie would have come in handy.
I had to produce some 30 copies of a software product we made for our
client, and it was a pain in the *** to burn all those on a couple of
pc's. Oh wait, selling those cd's to our own customer made them
commercial, so this device would have been of no use to us anyway,
right?

[poet Posted Jun 20th 2007 10:06AM]

'commercial' in this context probably means factory-produced instead of burnt on an ordinary PC. Or did you think the device checks the data and uses some AI to determine it's legal status?

Anyway, I can't realy think of many legit uses either. But that doesn't mean there is no market for this device ;)

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 20th 2007 10:21AM]

Nero always informs the user if the CD/DVD they're copying is copyrighted. I'm sure this device would use a similar system.

Anyway, as long as space isn't an issue I'm sure you could build a similar box with an old PC and a couple of DVD writers for under $450.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 20th 2007 6:45PM]

I got a 1 to 6 disc duplicator off of eBay for this price. There is a guy on there that builds and sales them for cheaper than you can buy all the components yourself. It comes in real handy when I need to burn off a couple dozen copies of a slideshow DVD for my clients.