Muffleman

Hi all,

I've just borrowed a DVD-Rom that I wish to do a straight copy of. (It's actually a SatNav Europe DVD). But the data on the disc amounts to 5.42Gb, and blank DVD's are only 4.7Gb.

Can you get higher capacity blank DVD's ? And will I be able to write to them with my Sony DW-U14a DVD Writer ?

I'm a little worried as I've only got this DVD for tonight !

Cheers


Matt

ianmiller999

Don't know about the disks size but cant you copy the dvd to your harddrive first so that you can give the dvd back

Muffleman

Hi Ian,

Yeah I'm gonna do that - I just wanted to do a 'blind' 0:0 write rather than just copy files over.

Oh well.

Thanks


Matt

Haxzer

You can get many singel and double sided DVD's of many size's, check out www.lemonmedia.co.uk, they have some good info on here and you can also order, bit pricy though!

Rgds

Matt

snowcrash

no you cant get a larger sized dvd..

as the media isn't available ( doesn't exist yet) and burners don't support it if it was..

Muffleman

Oh, so any idea how this SatNav DVD has 5.2Gb on it ? Does seem strange !

Cheers



Matt

DJ Dunk

iTrader: (5)

. . . because it'll be an original pressed DVD9 (9Gb capacity).

Currently the only recordable DVD media is approx 4.5Gb capacity. Dual layer will be available soon.

Can't you remove anything from it to make it fit on a DVD-R ?

dsmith

Because doublesided (i.e. upt 9GB) DVD can be produced commercially and readers know how to read them - but writers and media are not yet available for home use....

Deano

Muffleman

Thanks lads, all is clear now !

AR*E !!!