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Metal_God

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28. December 2002 @ 00:48

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Hi All,
I am just about to purchase a DVD writer. However, I see that there are two kinds available, DVD-RW and DVD+RW. Do you have any recomendations as to which is the better buy? Also I wish to back up my DVD's, but will re-writable DVDs work in a standalone DVD player?
Thanks

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HomerJ

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28. December 2002 @ 01:56

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First point. do you have a standalone settop DVD player, because if you do, you need to find out if it can play DVD-r or DVD+r discs, then go forward.

It seems that about 80% of DVD standalone players can play DVD-r discs. I'm not sure of the figure for DVD+r.

Don't bother to much with the +/- RW type discs. Standalone players are quite fussy on these.

HomerJ

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omegaboy

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28. December 2002 @ 07:27

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DVD+R/+RW is to do something more with DVDrecording such as add, join Dvd clips on a DVD+R disc, but most of the DVDplayers don't support these DVD+R discs. But recently I saw a DVDRW drive from Sony that supports DVD-R/RW and +R/RW, 4X Write, 2X rewrite. Cost around 389 USD.

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Metal_God

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28. December 2002 @ 09:10

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Cheers Guys. I have a DVD player (stand alone). It seems to play pretty much everything having looked at the Website. Do you know if it is difficult to make a carbon copy of a DVD movie, extras and everything?

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HomerJ

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28. December 2002 @ 10:49

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Metal_God,

"Do you know if it is difficult to make a carbon copy of a DVD movie, extras and everything? "

Why do you ask such a difficult question ???

In DVDs simplest form (DVD-5) the answer is no, it's fairly straight forward. Rip the movie, use Ifoedit to make a small adjustment, and burn to blank DVD disc. However, very few movies are made on DVD-5 discs these days (about 15%)

ALL others are made on DVD-9 types which can hold upto 9.4GB of data.

Now our DVD-r discs can only hold 4.7GB, so there is a problem. Even just the movie itself (no extras or anything else) can be greater than 4.7GB. So how do we copy the movie.

Basically 1 of 2 ways.

Split the movie over 2 discs or ....

Re encode the movie at slightly lower quality and squeeze it onto a single disc. (when i say slightly lower quality, I can't spot the difference, so it's that slight).

So there you have it. Please don't ask me to explain in more detail, there are loads of guides out there.

It took me a couple of weeks to copy my first DVD. Loads of reading, writing down EXACTLY what I did each time, so when I eventually got it right, I was able to repeat the exercise.

Programs are getting better all the time, as are the DVD media discs.

Hope that helps.

HomerJ

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