T-Ready's gettin' excited! Once this new tech hits, & the dust settles, I think it'll finally be time for me to buy a DVD burner. No more extra effort needed to copy a DVD to get it to fit onto a 4.7GB disc, just pop it in & hit "copy." With Philips burners, it'll only be a firmware download/upgrade. With LiteOn burners, it'll be a whole new line of burners built around a new chip.

"Philips expects to begin offering downloadable firmware that supports dual-layer DVD+R technology to system makers in the second quarter, said Marconi Jiang, general manager of sales at Philips Semiconductors in Taiwan.... Lite-On IT expects to begin mass production of recorders that support the technology in the second quarter, according to sources."