Hi, anyone know of a good place to get double-sided 9.4GB media? I got a stack of 50 Verbatims once on closeout and they're fantastic, but generally these discs are overpriced IMHO.
i'd have thought most or all DL media is 'overpriced' at the moment due to the fact it's so new. Which is why i'm not gonna buy any for a long, long time. At least with the Verb's you'll get top quality burns.
Creaky, I'm not talking about DL media, but the double-sided (i.e., no surface to write on) discs which have been around for a few years. They're inconvenient for many things, but nice for certain projects and if you're careful to store them correctly.
The correct term for these discs is DVD-10--often called "flippers".
DVD-10 means a two-sided DVD disc that hold single data layer on both sides. Effectively this means that DVD-10 is a dual-sided DVD-5 and can hold 8.75 gigabytes of data with 4.38 gigabytes on each side. Two-sided discs need to be flipped over in order to access the other data side.
I "googled" dvd-10 and flipper and found no results. In fact, only ones I have seen are movies rented from commercial outlets.
Maybe you can have better luck with your search engine than I or maybe another AD users knows a supplier.
Hi LABOY, yeah, those are the ones. I called them 9.4GB since that's what they're typically called as blanks at the typical online haunts (Supermediastore, etc.). I think the term flipper most often refers to commercially made dvd-video discs, not blanks. I've found Riteks at a few places but was hoping to do better than the best deal I've found so far: http://www.cdrdvdrmedia.com/ritek-dvd-r-dvdr-4x-blank-media-94-bu...
oh ok. I misread, and also didn't realise thse horrible things could actually be bought. Any retail flipper dvd i've copied (using the correct guides on copying flippers) has ended up with gaps/jumps in the resultant copy, which pi$$es me off!, but fair play to you if you want to locate those type of discs. :)
Creaky, they're not horrible if you'r just using them as you would two entirely separate 4.7GB discs (as opposed to whatever procedures are out there for copying the rare flipper disc). Example: create your own Xvids of both seasons 1 and 2 of Deadwood and put one season on each side. I've got one little wallet full of nothing but stuff like this. Easy on storage and you never lose the second disc. You've got to handle them very carefully but I think they're great if you don't have kids around.
i just honestly didn't know you could buy them; fair enough if you have a use for such things, that's great; i used to hate turning 'em over whilst watching them, back when i used to rent them back in the first days of dvd's :)
Yeah, I can imagine. Of course, IF dual-layer discs ever come down in price these things will have not even a small market anymore, they'll have none at all :)
