Sony Enhances its Lineup of Dual RW Drives

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Once you support DVD-R there's no point to supporting DVD+R

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Pth..

Optical has and still sucks for backup. They're SLOW, unreliable, and have a low shelf life compared to hard drives. Total pain in the ass. The only reason to use DVD is to make DVD movies and only DVD-R is compatible, DVD+R is not.

As for replacing VHS I would bet my money on DVRs, not crummy optical media. A DVD only holds 90 mins unless you pay through the balls for a DVD-9 burner! What's the point of that?

The only point to DVD+R was the DVD+R *only* burners were cheaper due to licensing. Having a burner which supports both the useful and useless format and costs more money is less than pointless.

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4.7Gig is not a "Huge Storage Capacity". That's the same capacity as a single-layer DVD-R. 3 hours of video my ass, maybe 3 hours of crappy grainy video.

The ability to edit on disk is really stupid. I don't care if DVD+RW is 20 times faster than DVD-RW, NOBODY in their right mind would edit video on an optical drive!

DVD is like print media, it's only useful as an end product. As such only DVD-R is useful since that is the only format that works on DVD players. If I wanted to edit my video for my own use I wouldn't use optical in the first place!

BTW #3 is an outright LIE. The only reason they can get away with saying that without being hauled into prison is the asterisk. Allow me to show you what that asterisk means:

* NOT!