"For some time now CD writing has been the media of choice for people wanting to do all kinds of things, from making, ahem, backup copies of software, to storing important documents for safe keeping. But as hard drives get bigger so does the amount people want to store and suddenly even a 99-minute or 840MB CD is looking slightly restrictive. DVD writers aren’t new by any means, but it’s only been in the last few months that they have really become affordable and confusion over the different standards has started to settle down."