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Thread ID: 53708	2005-01-25 03:59:00	please, what is the difference between dvd formats	jazzbo (5750)	Press F1

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317797	2005-01-26 06:40:00	A Big thankyou to all you guys/gals (thanks Chill) this was helpful and opened my eyes in many ways. Jazzbo quote: you can pick your friends and you can pick your nose but you cant pick your friends nose. :dogeye:	jazzbo (5750)
317798	2005-01-26 06:58:00	Dual-Layered is basically where there is two layers to the Disc, so it effectively holds 8.5GB IIRC. There are major extentions to this however, such as Sony's Blu-Ray Disc which allows 25gb. Back in 1993 however there was a company called C3D which made "FMD Discs". These Fluorescent Multi-layered Discs have a much larger capacity of up to 450Gigs (GB) in some cases. This is far more than Sony's Blu-Ray 25Gigs. Basically Sony bought out C3D and "hid" the technology if you will until such a time when suited them. No point in having that sort of storage capacity come into the market and flood your share of DVD Drives etc after all. Read a bit about C3D here: www.design-ireland.net ...and you thought DVD was good ;)	Chilling_Silence (9)
317799	2005-01-26 07:00:00	"Ive also had a Toshiba/Samsung TS-H552 which cant stand the cheaper CMC, Princo & Laser discs, but just loves the slightly more expensive media." I've had the complete opposite experience with the same samsung drive in that it will digest anything and everything with no firmware upgrades. In fact I pulled from my backup and installed it my main drive because of that to replace my gigabyte dvd rw. Mind you I have had bad runs with some pieces of gear that others swear by so luck of the draw I suppose.	the highlander (245)
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