Pioneer DVR-S806 firmware 1.09

Choosing your next purchase is even more critical with an external drive. These self-contained USB and Firewire drives are more costly and therefore we expect them to maintain a longer service life. Now and again a new breakthrough emerges making a purchase seem justifiable. Dual Layer drives are just starting to become mainstream offerings. Packing 8.5GB of data onto one disc means that an entire uncompressed DVD video can fit on one DVD+R Dual Layer media. Backing up your hard drive using an imaging program will take ½ the DVD media to accomplish. Dual Layer really does make a compelling argument for making your next drive purchase soon.
All of this Dual Layer DVD discussion sounds rather impacting now, doesn’t it? There is only one "fly in the ointment," and that is the cost and availability of Dual Layer media. At this time, DVD+R media is hovering around $10.00 US per unit. Judging by past media releases, this should drop to approximately half of the price in a short time. No 4x DVD-R Dual Layer media was available at the time of publication, but it is expected in sometime in January. Our 2.4x DVD+R DL media purchase was made locally, so at the very least availability of dual layer media is improving.