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Thread ID: 106706 2010-01-19 23:33:00 Whats going on in commercial DVDs? John W (523) PC World Chat
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850114 2010-01-20 02:53:00 They may be dual layer. There may be tiny text on the edge of the disc which says "this is a dual layer disc, there may be a slight pause in playback when transitioning layers."

Even if it was dual layer it couldn't contain the files referred to in the original post. Read Metla again.
PaulD (232)
850115 2010-01-20 06:17:00 A commercial DVD may have a lot of titles, but only a few working~~~ so most of the titles maybe nothing just a title! bunyun (15579)
850116 2010-01-20 06:18:00 Or maybe your commercial DVD is the latest DVD with new copy protection technology~~~ hehe bunyun (15579)
850117 2010-01-20 20:54:00 The DVD will just be using an "illegal" table of contents or dummy files. If you try a direct copy, the files obviously won't fit on a normal DVD/CD.

There are various programs around that will happily ignore these and allow you to backup the dvd.

These methods have been around for ages on CDs as well.
autechre (266)
850118 2010-01-21 01:50:00 :D autechre just "expanded" on what Metla has been saying for the last 13 posts :p

Anyway, yes, a DVD-9 can *still* only hold 7.95GB
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