Pioneer announced its plans for a dual layer DVD-R format almost a year ago, about the same time as Philips and Mitsubishi first announced the DVD+R DL format. But while the DVD+R DL specifications were finalized in March and DVD+R DL writers were released in May there have been almost no news about the DVD-R DL format. DVD Forum has however now announced that it will hold a conference in Japan 7th October and the DVD-R DL specs will be one of the major topics according to the agenda.
| 2004 Japan Conference
Date: October 7, 2004 Place: Intercontinental Tokyo Bay, Tokyo, Japan Major topics: -HD DVD formats HD DVD video demonstration -High speed recording spec's (DVD-R,-RW,-RAM,-ROM) -Dual Layer DVD-R spec's -DVD-Audio status -DVD worldwide market trend & a forecast -DVD copy protection technology -The new DVD Format/Logo License 2005 |
Seeing that DVD+R DL has already reached 4x speed and compatibility has proven to be very good when DVD-ROM book type is used the question is if DVD-R DL will have anything better to offer when it arrives?
Source: DVD Forum
