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post #1 of 9
2/27/03 at 11:37am
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I was wondering if anyone knew if the DVD-R drives that apple is shipping will support the higher density dvd-r dics, like tha 9 gb ones that are out on the market.
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post #2 of 9
2/27/03 at 8:31pm
there are 9.4 GB DVD-R discs on the market?!

superdrive wont support them as they would be dual layered
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post #3 of 9
2/27/03 at 9:43pm
No I believe they are double-sided and as such I would and will expect them to work.
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post #4 of 9
2/27/03 at 9:47pm
Double-sided will work. Dual layered will not. But I don't think there are any dual layered DVD-Rs because I don't think there are any recorders that support dual layers.

There are extremely few commercial DVDs that support dual layers as well. Why do I have to switch discs in the middle of Fellowship of the Ring? That's bull. They could easily have put it on a dual-layered disc, or at least have done it for the deluxe edition with the bookends.

Cheap media companies once again making things harder for the consumer.
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post #5 of 9
2/27/03 at 10:49pm
[quote]Originally posted by tonton:
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There are extremely few commercial DVDs that support dual layers as well. Why do I have to switch discs in the middle of Fellowship of the Ring? That's bull. They could easily have put it on a dual-layered disc, or at least have done it for the deluxe edition with the bookends.
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Almost every commercial dvd I have ever bought (quite a few) is dual layer. You can tell because of the layer change pause about half way through. I know that all Fellowship of the Ring movie discs are dual layer, including the extended version. I understand that one dual layer disc can hold about 3 hours of high quality video. Fellowship (extended) was longer and required the disc change. Nothing they could do about it.

This is also one reason why it is not easy to copy dvds. A commercial dvd holds more info than can fit on a dvd-r.
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post #6 of 9
3/3/03 at 9:11pm
Consumer-grade DVD blanks can't burn dual-layers due to reflectivity issues (ie consumer-grade DVDrs, as with comsumer-grade CDrs, are less reflective than the factory-stamped ones. This is why some devices can't read CDrs or DVDrs). They also lack the area where the encryption info would be burned so that you can't do a direct bit-for-bit copy. If you were able to do a bit-for-bit copy, the MPAA couldn't come after you for violating the DMCA. The only way to copy a DVD now is to crack the CSS and then copy it thereby violating the DMCA.
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post #7 of 9
3/3/03 at 10:07pm
[quote] There are extremely few commercial DVDs that support dual layers as well. Why do I have to switch discs in the middle of Fellowship of the Ring? That's bull. They could easily have put it on a dual-layered disc, or at least have done it for the deluxe edition with the <hr></blockquote>

I have to agree. I've seen only a few non-layered DVDs out of many rentals.
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post #8 of 9
3/3/03 at 10:12pm
Double-sided (I've seen these for a few years now): <a href="http://dealmac.com/articles/48181.html" target="_blank">http://dealmac.com/articles/48181.html</a>

Also saw this today, really cool: mini DVD-R! <a href="http://dealmac.com/artclick.html?48322,67010" target="_blank">http://dealmac.com/artclick.html?48322,67010</a>

Of course my PowerBook can't use these because retarded Apple's retarded sloat loaders are form over function. Though I hear there's an adapter that makes the smaller size pointless. Oh well, I have a SuperDrive go me. I just need some DVD-R now!

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"I was really curious how they had managed such fine granularity of alienation." addabox
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post #9 of 9
3/4/03 at 10:09am
Sony is coming out with a 23-gigabyte DVD recorder. That's about 4 times as much as current DVDs.

<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/03/04/blue.dvd.reut/index.html" target="_blank">Linkage.</a>
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