Andy Polyakov wrote:
I just got a dual-layer DVD burner which includes a feature identified as HD_BURN, which claims to be able to put 1.4GB on a CD blank readable in aDVD reader (any DVD reader).Is that supported by non-Windows software yet?What drive? Did you buy DVD -DL media?Just for the record and not let people fall to wrong expectations. HD_BURN has nothing to do with Double Layer. HD_BURN was offered with single-layer units as well. HD_BURN is a hack to record double as much data on CD-R(!). It's achieved in two ways: smaller pits and different data encoding scheme. HD_BURN media can be played only in HD_BURN recorder unit and DVD units with modified(!) firmware. It won't play in "any" DVD reader.
Thanks for the information, the only recorder I have which offers HD_BURN also offers DL DVD capability, and I hope to install it tonight and test. Hopefully this is not some feature which works only with Windows, and I have no capability to use it if so. Thus the original question about support for HD_BURN and DL.
Will DL DVD-R be supported at some point in the future, or will compatibility mode make DVD+R usable on standard DVD players? I'm in the process of moving my VCR collection to DVD.
-- bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979