Jon Posted November 30, 2004 Report Share Posted November 30, 2004 Hi Guys, Do any of you know a good cheap source of the dual layer recordable DVD media, currently can't find them below £20 for 5. Cheers, Jon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snail Posted November 30, 2004 Report Share Posted November 30, 2004 I've been looking, but agree you cant get them below about £4 each at the mo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomk Posted November 30, 2004 Report Share Posted November 30, 2004 £20 for 5 is not bad, i only can get 10 for 38 quid! dont worry give it 6 months and they should be cheap enough, anyways 4.7 gig are only 6 quid for 25 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruiser647 Posted November 30, 2004 Report Share Posted November 30, 2004 You do realise they are only WRITE once media. No RW as yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Posted November 30, 2004 Author Report Share Posted November 30, 2004 Cheers guys, I realise they are write once but prefer to use the dual layer disks for perfect backup copies with no reduction in quality due to downsampling and re-encoding Jon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_B Posted November 30, 2004 Report Share Posted November 30, 2004 [ QUOTE ] I realise they are write once but prefer to use the dual layer disks for perfect backup copies with no reduction in quality due to downsampling and re-encoding [/ QUOTE ] Isn't DL 8.5GB, or am I behind the times? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Posted November 30, 2004 Author Report Share Posted November 30, 2004 [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] I realise they are write once but prefer to use the dual layer disks for perfect backup copies with no reduction in quality due to downsampling and re-encoding [/ QUOTE ] Isn't DL 8.5GB, or am I behind the times? [/ QUOTE ] Yep, you are totally correct, however all the sites advertise 9GB!!?? Jon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_B Posted November 30, 2004 Report Share Posted November 30, 2004 [ QUOTE ] Yep, you are totally correct, however all the sites advertise 9GB!!?? [/ QUOTE ] A cynical person might say to con you into thinking you can straight copy a pre-pressed DVD? However, 8.5GB means far less compression is required than 4.7GB does! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Posted December 1, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 1, 2004 [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] Yep, you are totally correct, however all the sites advertise 9GB!!?? [/ QUOTE ] A cynical person might say to con you into thinking you can straight copy a pre-pressed DVD? However, 8.5GB means far less compression is required than 4.7GB does! [/ QUOTE ] Not straight copy Cough dvd shrink cough and delete any language soundtracks you don't need. Jon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_B Posted December 1, 2004 Report Share Posted December 1, 2004 [ QUOTE ] Not straight copy Cough dvd shrink cough and delete any language soundtracks you don't need. [/ QUOTE ] Oh indeed, but obviously on a 9GB recordable, you could do a straight copy, once you got round the CSS encryption issue (*cough* DVD Decrypter *cough*). I like DVD Shrink. For a laugh I once tried to see if I could fit The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring: Special Extended Edition (special extended name, more like, I prefer to call it LOTR:TFOTR:SEE ) onto a single 4.7GB DVD (the film itself is two 9GB DVDs) and make it anywhere near watchable. With a bit of tinkering with the compression settings, I managed to do it, but with the opening credits chopped right off to the first opening scene, only slightly better than SVCD quality on the main movie (although I turned the quality up for the action bits), Dolby surround (not 5.1 or DTS) sound and the end credits chopped after the main actors and as a series of stills rather than rolling. I was impressed. I wonder if DVD Shrink does support or soon will support 8.5GB discs? Should obviate the need to remove heavyweight soundtracks like DTS, or alternate languages and subtitles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snail Posted December 1, 2004 Report Share Posted December 1, 2004 [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] Not straight copy Cough dvd shrink cough and delete any language soundtracks you don't need. [/ QUOTE ] Oh indeed, but obviously on a 9GB recordable, you could do a straight copy, once you got round the CSS encryption issue (*cough* DVD Decrypter *cough*). I like DVD Shrink. For a laugh I once tried to see if I could fit The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring: Special Extended Edition (special extended name, more like, I prefer to call it LOTR:TFOTR:SEE ) onto a single 4.7GB DVD (the film itself is two 9GB DVDs) and make it anywhere near watchable. With a bit of tinkering with the compression settings, I managed to do it, but with the opening credits chopped right off to the first opening scene, only slightly better than SVCD quality on the main movie (although I turned the quality up for the action bits), Dolby surround (not 5.1 or DTS) sound and the end credits chopped after the main actors and as a series of stills rather than rolling. I was impressed. I wonder if DVD Shrink does support or soon will support 8.5GB discs? Should obviate the need to remove heavyweight soundtracks like DTS, or alternate languages and subtitles. [/ QUOTE ] I've yet to find a film that fully fills a 9GB disk. I thought LOTR was only something like 8.2GB anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apreading Posted December 1, 2004 Report Share Posted December 1, 2004 fairly sure there is an option in the latest version of DVDshrink to change the disc size to allow dual layer discs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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