Wednesday, October 9, 2002
Sanyo Packs Double the Data Onto CD-R
Posted by Jason Dunn in "OFF-TOPIC" @ 12:19 PM
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,105422,tk,dn092602X,00.asp
As someone who never seems to have enough storage, I find this announcement quite exciting - but I wonder if it's come too late? You can now buy a 2X DVD-R for as low as $264 US. Let's say that optimistically the double-data CD-R is everywhere in the market 12 months from now (which is almost impossible). A year from now, I'm willing to bet that DVD burners will be around $150 US, and offering 4.3 GB of storage from the get go. Is Sanyo too little too late?
"Sanyo Electric has introduced a CD drive which can read and write twice the normal amount of data onto a conventional CD-R disc, the company announced Wednesday. When data is recorded with the CRD-BPDV2 drive for HD-Burn, a 700MB CD-R can hold 1.4GB of data. This will allow the recording medium to hold up to two hours of video, according to a Sanyo representative, who declined to give his name. This allows users to record more data at low cost. At retail stores in Japan, CD-Rs are priced around 98 cents, while DVD-R costs about five time more."
As someone who never seems to have enough storage, I find this announcement quite exciting - but I wonder if it's come too late? You can now buy a 2X DVD-R for as low as $264 US. Let's say that optimistically the double-data CD-R is everywhere in the market 12 months from now (which is almost impossible). A year from now, I'm willing to bet that DVD burners will be around $150 US, and offering 4.3 GB of storage from the get go. Is Sanyo too little too late?
"Sanyo Electric has introduced a CD drive which can read and write twice the normal amount of data onto a conventional CD-R disc, the company announced Wednesday. When data is recorded with the CRD-BPDV2 drive for HD-Burn, a 700MB CD-R can hold 1.4GB of data. This will allow the recording medium to hold up to two hours of video, according to a Sanyo representative, who declined to give his name. This allows users to record more data at low cost. At retail stores in Japan, CD-Rs are priced around 98 cents, while DVD-R costs about five time more."
