PCs with DVD Dual/Double layer

I've recently download a whole season of 24 season 4, its been ripped from HD widescreen TV format, quality is as good as it can be, and i had started to burn episodes into my empty DVDs, and had tested successfully with my home theater DVD player. All thanks to NeroVision, my laptop is able to covert PC media formats to DVD player readable format.

But the thing is each DVD cd can only contain no more than 2 episodes (2files), 4 gbs in total, each DVD takes 1 hour to burn, thus with 24 episodes, it will take 12 DVDs, 12 hours to burn. Thats kinda painful.

I do know that most laptops come with built in DVD writer or purchasable standalone DVD writers that has 8x DVD Dual/Double layer burn. And by far as i know my laptop (w3v) is still burning at 4x, and single sided (And i do think its due to the DVD cd). I do know that DVDs that has double layer writing capability has twice the total amount of a single DVD. These DVD cds are known as DVD-9, if i'm not wrong. But i've yet to see in online retailers.. And if they do have it online, does laptops from Asus that come with 8x DVD dual/double layer writing capability able to write on DVD-9 media (or should i say DVD) disc?

Please advice.

 

Most recently/newly available laptops with DVD burners have the capability of burning dual layer DVD media. I will be surprised to see a new one without this capability unless the shop is still selling old stocks (very unlikely as it cannot survive by keeping too many old stocks).

 

They are 8x dual layer drives, but that represents "8x" is the fastest it'll burn any dvd media (in this case dvd-r) and "dual layer" is the most advanced media it'll burn. In the case of all 8x dual layer notebook drives - dual layer is usually at written at 2-2.5x

 

If it's taking you an hour to burn a DVD, it's writing at 1x. I know this because that's what my Toshiba has. My desktop has a 16x burner -- if I put 4x media in it, the disc is done in ~15 minutes.

 

You could try buying the season... From the gist of your post it sounds like you got the show from the internet. In that case, I don't think you have any right to complain about how slow it is to burn pirated shows.

 

It seems they you have problems comprehending my question, thus giving a pointless reply to my thread. Glad the others was able to give a few pointers relating to my question.

I do know that most laptops come with built in DVD writer or purchasable standalone DVD writers that has 8x DVD Dual/Double layer burn. And by far as i know my laptop (w3v) is still burning at 4x, and single sided (And i do think its due to the DVD cd). I do know that DVDs that has double layer writing capability has twice the total amount of a single DVD. These DVD cds are known as DVD-9, if i'm not wrong. But i've yet to see in online retailers.. And if they do have it online, does laptops from Asus that come with 8x DVD dual/double layer writing capability able to write on DVD-9 media (or should i say DVD) disc?

 

I have yet to try buring dual layer media. Currently the cost is about about ten times the cost of bulk single layer media. Plus, the burning speed is less than half (2.4X max vs 8X max).

Until the media costs become sensible, the only reason to use dual layer media is for files exceeding the capacity of single-sided media.

John