Toshiba HD DVD Multi Drive

All, I own a Toshiba A205-ST2043 laptop with an HD-DVD Super Multi burner in it.

I have a question about my Toshiba HD-DVD Supermulti drive, and Im trying to find compatible dual layer DVD media. I wanted to buy this media:

http://www.amazon.com/Ridata-Double-...7041979&sr=1-3

and one of the people who bought it said these didn't work with his drive, and another person posted that people should make sure their burner is: DVD-R DL before buying these.

I have looked at the documentation on my multi drive and cannot find anything that speaks to this DL bit. One reviewer on the dvd media said this..... "even if a writer claims to write +/-r you need to check that it can write on -DL!!"

Other than a very brief summary of the formats my drive supports... where can I find more detailed description for my HD-DVD SuperMulti drive and what is this -DL stuff all about? Any help and more information I can find out would be great.

Oh yeah, and it looks almost obvious that DL stands for Dual/Double Layer, but is -DL or any variant, actually a format, or am I reading too much into his comments?

Thanks.....

 

DL means Dual Layer - which means the laser actually passes through to a second layer to burn "twice" the capacity. Most movies are stamped this way.

However, you're only able to burn standard DVDs and not HD DVDs (not sure if that was your question).