Aye, I was under the impression a DVD would top out at 17.4GB, but I could be wrong, that information is a year old or so. But I've never even considered a now-a-day burner, NOT being able to burn a video disc totally turned me off to the 4.7GB burners... They are down to about $100 here in Washington. It would be nice, for storage purposes, but with the price of 120GB SATA drives down so low it doesn't seem cost-effective...?