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Dual Layer DVD - is it worth it?
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sanchez
2005-06-15 11:33:05 UTC
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Hi,
The dual Layer DVDs which have about 8 GB capacity are about 300 times as
expensive as 4.7 GB species. Wonder when the price for these will become
affordable to make it worth my while to do any illegal copies of movies :)

on another note ...
I was burning a DVD from video clips using ULead Video Studio 8. For some
reason it got the capasity wrong. I was using a -R variety with 4.7 GB and
it considered it as 4.4 GB and kept warning me regarding insufficient
capacity. Anyway the DVD cut ok.
Sanchez
GraB
2005-06-15 12:05:05 UTC
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Post by sanchez
Hi,
The dual Layer DVDs which have about 8 GB capacity are about 300 times as
expensive as 4.7 GB species. Wonder when the price for these will become
affordable to make it worth my while to do any illegal copies of movies :)
Dual layer has proven to be problematic so the uptake has been slow so
the price won't be coming down for ages. There are other ways of
fitting a movie to a single layer disc that are quite satisfactory.
Post by sanchez
on another note ...
I was burning a DVD from video clips using ULead Video Studio 8. For some
reason it got the capasity wrong. I was using a -R variety with 4.7 GB and
it considered it as 4.4 GB and kept warning me regarding insufficient
capacity. Anyway the DVD cut ok.
Sanchez
One is the metric measure, the other is the binary measure (a Kilobyte
is not 1000 [metric] bytes - it is 1024 [binary] bytes).
mb
2005-06-15 14:12:46 UTC
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Post by GraB
Post by sanchez
Hi,
The dual Layer DVDs which have about 8 GB capacity are about 300 times as
expensive as 4.7 GB species. Wonder when the price for these will become
affordable to make it worth my while to do any illegal copies of movies :)
Dual layer has proven to be problematic so the uptake has been slow so
It sure is.
Post by GraB
the price won't be coming down for ages. There are other ways of
fitting a movie to a single layer disc that are quite satisfactory.
www.dvdshrink.org
Post by GraB
Post by sanchez
on another note ...
I was burning a DVD from video clips using ULead Video Studio 8. For some
reason it got the capasity wrong. I was using a -R variety with 4.7 GB and
it considered it as 4.4 GB and kept warning me regarding insufficient
capacity. Anyway the DVD cut ok.
Sanchez
One is the metric measure, the other is the binary measure (a Kilobyte
is not 1000 [metric] bytes - it is 1024 [binary] bytes).
Alpha
2005-06-19 22:42:58 UTC
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No. Less than 50% reliability with players.
Post by GraB
Post by sanchez
Hi,
The dual Layer DVDs which have about 8 GB capacity are about 300 times as
expensive as 4.7 GB species. Wonder when the price for these will become
affordable to make it worth my while to do any illegal copies of movies :)
Dual layer has proven to be problematic so the uptake has been slow so
the price won't be coming down for ages. There are other ways of
fitting a movie to a single layer disc that are quite satisfactory.
Post by sanchez
on another note ...
I was burning a DVD from video clips using ULead Video Studio 8. For some
reason it got the capasity wrong. I was using a -R variety with 4.7 GB and
it considered it as 4.4 GB and kept warning me regarding insufficient
capacity. Anyway the DVD cut ok.
Sanchez
One is the metric measure, the other is the binary measure (a Kilobyte
is not 1000 [metric] bytes - it is 1024 [binary] bytes).
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