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beem237
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_ 		15. March 2003 @ 20:58 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I just just wondering if anyone knows why you can only make an exact duplicate of a dvd only if its under 4.36 Gigs? I was always under the impression it would work as long as it was under 4.7. If anyone could give me some insight that would be great.

Kudos,

Ty Roc
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_ 		15. March 2003 @ 23:14 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
4.7 is "Japanese gigs". Just like if you buy normally a "100GB" HDD, the actual space you get is somewhere around 90GB.

As everybody knows, in reality kilos -> megs -> gigs goes like this:

1kB = 1,024B
1MB = 1,024kB
1GB = 1,024MB

But the "Japanese gigs" use 1,000 as a multiplier instead. So, "advertised 4.7GB" is in reality 4,700,000,000bytes, which, in real terms is 4.36GB.
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