DVD Insider Report - August 20, 2004

[Audioholics]

Want to know the inside scoop on emerging DVD technologies? Ask the DVD Insider! The DVD Insider is a DVD and video industry insider with more than 15 years of management, marketing and communications experience who will be writing a series of articles for Audioholics dealing with DVD industry technologies, standards and its future. If you're thinking about making th leap to DVD+/-R, DVD+/-RW or any other DVD recordable format, or you simply want to know where DVD is headed (including HD DVD formats), then this series is for you.

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[Rob Babcock]

Dual layer is interesting, but I'm not jumping for the foreseeable future. Right now the media is $20 per blank, and that's if you buy in quantity! How does that make sense when recordable 4.7 GB discs cost me 60 cents? I realize costs will drop precipitously as production ramps up, but until blanks are down to $1.75 or less, I'll stick with single layer.