Source : Digitimes Even though DVD engravers have been able to burn double-layer DVDs for many years, the very high price of the virgin media prevented significant sales.
Since the beginning of the year, the manufacturers have made a large effort, and have managed to produce these disks at $1 each, which has clearly restarted the sales, all at least in the countries where the royalty on the private copy is not too high.
It is necessary to remember that in France such a disk is taxed at 2 HT due to this royalty, which acts as a brake on the purchase.
It is a great pity that in an age where all numerical cameras have sensors having millions of pixels so that often a number of photographs greater than 10 becomes a sizable storage item. Their storage (and backup to avoid loss) is taxed a number of times.
[translation by crispin]
