Posted by Gordon Burditt on 10/29/05 18:25

>Thanks for your help so far. I am writing to Sharp as well. Went by Best
>Buy yesterday and this unit is still on the shelf there.
>Isn't there a law against this as well. Some sort of obsolescence thing?

I doubt it. I think it's perfectly possible that *NO* existing
DVD recorder/burner will record on 177x disks (which I doubt will
exist, even in prototype, for the next 5 years), even at 4x.
Your unit still records on *4x* disks at 4x, doesn't it?

Since the designers have at this point never heard of a 177x
disk, it's quite possible that their machines aren't designed
to handle it. And it may be that the designers of 177x disks
won't care about the incompatability. Can you record on a Blu-Ray
disk with an ordinary 4x DVD recorder available today?

Gordon L. Burditt

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