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Sirrick
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_ 		21. January 2003 @ 16:23 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
hi why nero limited the size dvd to 4500MB, and not to 4,7G, becauso 4,7G to be equal more than 5000MB

anyone have an idea??????

thanks
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malum
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_ 		21. January 2003 @ 23:38 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Is this like a brain teasing puzzle where we have to fill in the missing words to make sense of your post?

A DVD-R can only hold 4.37GB of data. The rest is lost in overhead.

Why Nero runs up to 4.5GB is a mystery to me, but if you fill it to that limit you may have problems
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delpierre
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_ 		23. January 2003 @ 03:49 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Is overburning completely impossible?
I once had to substract 30 seconds of music at the end, because I slightly exceeded the limit (4 MB !!!)

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jean delpierre
vurbal
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_ 		23. January 2003 @ 05:10 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
The difference between the 4.7 GB advertised and the 4.37 GB actual space on a DVD has nothing to do with overhead. It's caused by what I like to call new computer math.

4.7 GB actually refers to 4.7 Billion Bytes. The problem is that 1 GB is actually 1,073,741,824 Bytes (KB=1024, MB=1024*1024, GB=1024*1024*1024). If you do the math that means that a DVD actually holds a little more than 4.37 GB.
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malum
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_ 		23. January 2003 @ 05:18 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I stand corrected. I wasn't sure when I wrote it to be honest.

I'll get my coat
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vurbal
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_ 		23. January 2003 @ 06:24 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I understand malum. Most people aren't aware of this particular marketing trick. Either way 4500 MB doesn't make any sense to me either, but I use DVD Decryptor to burn my movies so I'm not that familiar with using Nero (except for CD's).
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