"Dutch company Philips Electronics says it has developed a new technology with Japan's Mitsubishi Kagaku Media that nearly doubles the storage capacity of data on recordable DVD discs."
#4. "RE: Phillips to Increase DVD Capacity" In response to Wakko (Reply # 2)
>Wow theoretics released years ago said Double sided Double >density format for DVDs would be able to hold up to >17.6GB... > >Still wonder where the heck that technology is....
It was 6 or more years ago, and they do exist. The reason they have gone away from them is because research showed that people would rather pay more to have 2 DVD's provided they had lables on them.
My Stargate DVD is DVD9 on both sides, one for 4:3 and one for 1 .