DualDiscs hit the market

It sounds very interesting, but how much will the album prices increase by, and is the extra material worth it?

Single-sided CD's and DVD's are quite sensitive to scratches, dirt and sun light. Too bad that caddies for CD's are gone and have never been replaced with a compacter design. Double-sided disks are even worse. And then the matter of the label. Who wants to read tiny titles at the center of the disks? For movie theaters 640 kbit/s MP3 surround sound is working fine. Why not for consumer electronics? A simple CD is large enough for 2 1/2 hours of such music files. Isn't that enough? So what is the point of promoting an additional DVD side? For a simple video that would easily fit onto a CD together with the music with the proper MPEG compression? For pictures, web links? Give me a break! But a single-sided 8cm DVD would make perfect sense for music albums. Tiny medium, tiny player, much cheaper than memory sticks, and still more than twice as much capacity than a 12cm CD. Use vbr MP3 with up to 640 kbit/s and surround extension, and you are all set. Let's see if there are some manufacturers in China who can produce at least the mini-DVD audio player. There are already tiny CD players for 8cm CD's on the market. The "Dual"Disc is certainly no progress for consumers.

'added value' is usually synonymous with added cost. Think of the so called added value features of DVDs which the film industry uses as a excuse to keep the cost of DVDs at an artificially high level.

Quite happy with the media i'm using and i don't see any great advantage in these discs.Time may prove me wrong but for now i'm happy as iam.

they will bend u over and service the account

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Just bought a dvd collection that has a dual sided dvd in it, got a bit of a shock, did not think there was such a thing. Can't say that I am altogether happy about it as it will mean having to be doubly careful when handling it.