Will we ever see faster optical disc drives?

Is this acommercial choice(i.e.

optical drives cannot support higher writing and reading speeds)?

Will There Ever Be Faster DVD and CD Drives?

Well, which is it?

Are such drives impractical to market or impractical to build?

The Answers

SuperUser contributor PhonicUK offers up the following explanation:

It’s mostly a technical limitation.

However they were expensive and apparently had reliability problems as well.

you’re able to already burn a double layer DVD in a few minutes.

Looks like we’ll all just have to be happy burning our DL-DVDs in only a few minutes.