Verbatim 2.4x DVD+R DL discs (MKM001, made in Singapore) are available at some major retail chains here in Germany, a 10 disc cakebox for 19.95 EUR, that's less than 2 EUR a disc.

Well they aren't available here, at that price, in the shops I have been too and I live in a major city. 25Gb RW for £14.50 still isn't bad. I wonder how much it will drop by as time goes on?

.... havent you had to buy a new monitor

$25 dollars a disc isn't bad It's more then bad. I hope you don't scratch it.

Given what I said about the avaiability of DL-/+R where I live, remember I can't shop online, 5 x 8.4= 42Gb. For £1 less than a pack of 5 Verb DLs I would get 50Gb RW. The actual value would be based on how well they performed. Therefore on a price comparison they aren't that bad.

Ofcourse this doesn't take into account the cost of the drive, and being me I would wait until I either realy needed to change or there was a significant price reduction.

If your paying $6 for a DL i would sure hate to see what a 50 gig will cost you where ever you are. they must mark up alot

Given conversion and what is available where I am I would happily pay $6 for a DL as that would be ~£3.45 , as it is only 5 packs are avaialable and they are £29.99 which works out at ~$52.18 so it is ~$10.44 each.

50Gig would be buying two discs. As I said I would most probably wait until the prices seriously came down or there was an absolute need to upgrade.

Come on CDFreaks, they have them at Elegant Shopping for only $1050.00. Get testing!!!! "In stock and available for testing", whatever that means. No mention anywhere on where to get media. Also, your current video card and monitor won't play back the output so it's about as useful as my dead HP400C.

Im in

Nope, because my Dell XPS Gen2 already has an HD screen, 1920x1200.

Can you please make the driver available? Perhaps upload to rapidshare.de?

That's not enough.

Never heard of HDMI and HDCP?

Any chance? I am interested to know if it supports UDF 2.50 and 2.60 for DVD-RAM.

It does, and it's still copyrighted material!

im realy looking looking forword to getting my hands on a BR writer
just finished backing up al my data with s,l dvds and it took 2 weeks !!
2 days later and my motherbord dies and takes 2 hdd with it ( just for fun )
it word have been nice to burn 10 br 50s instead of the cake box iv got now
talking of copyrighted mat, BR + hdd do have some issues http://writersblocklive.com/boycott/

Why not buying a hdd instead?

Seagate just released a 750Gb one.

Gee, I hope an updated driver is released for current users. I can see myself getting a 12x DVD-RAM soon (or 16x) before BD/HD becomes "affordable". I would like the Metadata feature in Matsushita's rather than settling for Ahead's.

As for backing up 500GB... while good DVD's may be relatively inexpensive (about $30) compared to HDD(s) (two 250GB's would probably be cheapest at about $160), when time and reliability are factored in the cost difference becomes less relevant -especially if each of those DVD's are interdependent so that if one fails they all become useless.

you sure? i thought that samsung supposed to release the first ACSS ready drive in June

once they start selling movies with HDCP, and that will be very soon

you don't need HDMI, as long as you have HDCP enabled DVI port