http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/04/victors-single-sided-8-5gb-dvd-rw-coming-in-august/ Engadget Comments for Victor's single-sided 8.5GB DVD-RW coming in August http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/04/victors-single-sided-8-5gb-dvd-rw-coming-in-august/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/04/victors-single-sided-8-5gb-dvd-rw-coming-in-august/Jul 4th 2007 1:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/04/victors-single-sided-8-5gb-dvd-rw-coming-in-august/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/04/victors-single-sided-8-5gb-dvd-rw-coming-in-august/Jul 4th 2007 1:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/04/victors-single-sided-8-5gb-dvd-rw-coming-in-august/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/04/victors-single-sided-8-5gb-dvd-rw-coming-in-august/so I mean, it talks of 17gbs on one disc, but you have to flip to the other side... like a cassette! lol This is kind of old news, they use this for movies with one side being full screen and one wide screen, or one side having the full length movie, and one side having the special features.
Except for home use.
So to recap what I said in English, yes, they have been around, they are double sided, and we are talking about DVD-RWs.]]>Jul 4th 2007 1:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/04/victors-single-sided-8-5gb-dvd-rw-coming-in-august/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/04/victors-single-sided-8-5gb-dvd-rw-coming-in-august/
DVD18
DVD18 is a double sided dual layer DVD which can fit up to 17 GB or 15.9 computer GB which some commercial video DVDs are using today (a DVD18 is basicly four pressed plastic DVD5s pressed together, they are not burned). Video DVD supports this format but DVD-R/W and DVD+R/W does not support this format.]]>Jul 4th 2007 10:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/04/victors-single-sided-8-5gb-dvd-rw-coming-in-august/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/04/victors-single-sided-8-5gb-dvd-rw-coming-in-august/Jul 4th 2007 1:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/04/victors-single-sided-8-5gb-dvd-rw-coming-in-august/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/04/victors-single-sided-8-5gb-dvd-rw-coming-in-august/Jul 4th 2007 1:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/04/victors-single-sided-8-5gb-dvd-rw-coming-in-august/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/04/victors-single-sided-8-5gb-dvd-rw-coming-in-august/Jul 4th 2007 1:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/04/victors-single-sided-8-5gb-dvd-rw-coming-in-august/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/04/victors-single-sided-8-5gb-dvd-rw-coming-in-august/Jul 4th 2007 1:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/04/victors-single-sided-8-5gb-dvd-rw-coming-in-august/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/04/victors-single-sided-8-5gb-dvd-rw-coming-in-august/Maybe I'm misreading your article, but it really seems like your suggesting this is the first DVD that can hold 8.5 GB on one side. Now it's probably the first re-writable DVD that can do that, but I happen to have some single-sided 8.5 GB DVDs on my desk right now.

On the topic of the article. I've never really seen too much use for RW discs and have heard they are unreliable, but I've never tried them either.]]>Jul 4th 2007 2:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/04/victors-single-sided-8-5gb-dvd-rw-coming-in-august/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/04/victors-single-sided-8-5gb-dvd-rw-coming-in-august/http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?A=details&kw=JVDMWDL22J&is=REG&Q=&O=productlist&sku=463521


• 8.56GB single-sided, dual-layer, DVD-RW rewritable DVD
• High-capacity 2x write speed.

Looks like Joshua believed the PR rep/press release a bit too much. Happens to the best of us.]]>Jul 4th 2007 2:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/04/victors-single-sided-8-5gb-dvd-rw-coming-in-august/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/04/victors-single-sided-8-5gb-dvd-rw-coming-in-august/Jul 4th 2007 5:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/04/victors-single-sided-8-5gb-dvd-rw-coming-in-august/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/04/victors-single-sided-8-5gb-dvd-rw-coming-in-august/Jul 4th 2007 1:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/04/victors-single-sided-8-5gb-dvd-rw-coming-in-august/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/04/victors-single-sided-8-5gb-dvd-rw-coming-in-august/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/05/jvc_to_ship_dual-layer_dvd-rw_q2/]]>Jul 4th 2007 2:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/04/victors-single-sided-8-5gb-dvd-rw-coming-in-august/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/04/victors-single-sided-8-5gb-dvd-rw-coming-in-august/Jul 4th 2007 2:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/04/victors-single-sided-8-5gb-dvd-rw-coming-in-august/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/04/victors-single-sided-8-5gb-dvd-rw-coming-in-august/
Joshua is confused, should at least check up on the wikipedia on some details about double sided and dual layer discs.

Ed, JVC is Victor. JVC = Victor Company of Japan, and the page you linked to clearly says that this product is "new - coming soon"

dream_scape, having a company claiming at a tradeshow that a product coming soon is different to actually releasing the product. Some tradeshow products never end up on the market, despite what the company reps claim.

rokerovakero, you also likely to be confused about what this is exactly about. The format DVD-RW DL was approved only recently, September of 2006, to be exact. You have have used a DVD-RW SL or even a DVD-R DL, but unlikely a DVD-RW DL.
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My Verbatim DVD+R DL are 8.5gb...any dual layer is for that matter. I agree that the author should be stressing the new format rather than the size. 8.5gb on a single side is definitely not news.]]>Jul 4th 2007 3:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/04/victors-single-sided-8-5gb-dvd-rw-coming-in-august/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/04/victors-single-sided-8-5gb-dvd-rw-coming-in-august/Jul 4th 2007 5:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/04/victors-single-sided-8-5gb-dvd-rw-coming-in-august/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/04/victors-single-sided-8-5gb-dvd-rw-coming-in-august/Jul 4th 2007 7:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/04/victors-single-sided-8-5gb-dvd-rw-coming-in-august/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/04/victors-single-sided-8-5gb-dvd-rw-coming-in-august/Jul 4th 2007 10:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/04/victors-single-sided-8-5gb-dvd-rw-coming-in-august/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/04/victors-single-sided-8-5gb-dvd-rw-coming-in-august/Jul 4th 2007 8:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/04/victors-single-sided-8-5gb-dvd-rw-coming-in-august/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/04/victors-single-sided-8-5gb-dvd-rw-coming-in-august/Jul 4th 2007 3:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/04/victors-single-sided-8-5gb-dvd-rw-coming-in-august/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/04/victors-single-sided-8-5gb-dvd-rw-coming-in-august/
I'm sure my 3 year old NEC DVD-RW supports DVD-R DVD-RW DVD+R DVD+RW and the Dual Layer for both. Thing is when my drive costs £30 (then) and supports all these (now, or whenever they were launched). I can now buy 50 discs 16x for £11.99 (single layer). Even though before I bought this drive dual layer r discs were available.

Why if they can support the burning did they not launch the 8Gb discs way back in 1998 when these were available for films?

It's all a rip off until the next format war. I'm waiting for post Blu-ray and HD-DVD.

Just rip it to HD or SSD who we consume it anyway!]]>Jul 4th 2007 7:41PM