Extreme DVD Problems ? HELP

To save money, ER could be reduced to a comic book like HPR. This round, the joke is on the subscribers. Come renewal time, we'll see who gets the last laugh.

Phil Stein

Phil Stein

Is ER following in HPRs footsteps?

Bob Kaplow NAR # 18L TRA # "Impeach the TRA BoD" >>> To reply, remove the TRABoD!

Natch. Refusing paid ads, failing schedules, poor content, whatever.

Promising MORE while delivering LESS (typical fraud or pyramid scheme).

for the quick and dirty, see

- iz

Bob Kaplow wrote:

Phil Stein wrote;

It's not the file format of the ER disc that's causing folks difficulty, but the physical properties of the disc.

Commercial store-bought DVD-Video discs are created by a stamping machine: the little pits that contain the digital information are physically pressed into a sheet of metal, then encased in a plastic disc. It's easy for early DVD players to read this information.

The various burnable DVD media don't have the digital data stamped into a metal layer. Rather, they utilize a dye layer, the reflectivity of which changes when the data is burned in by a laser. The differing reflectivity between the metal layer of a commercial DVD and the dye layer of a burnable disc is what's at play here.

More recent DVD set-top players have been tweaked to play the burnable media. Either way, the DVD-Video format is MPEG-2 (although a whole host a data types can be burned onto a DVD disc).

James

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Bob,

DVD-R is the dvd video format in writable from by a pc on a ink based disk. ussually purple. it's based on the original dvd-5 (5gig) read only format and can store only about 2 hours of video and audio. Back in the day, if a movie was lonfer then 2 hours, you had to "flip the disk" or it came on two.

most disks you get today at the video store are dvd-9 (9 gig) so you can't do direct disk to disk copy to the dvd-r disks and have a movie fit without rocket science done on the files. or any 12 year old can show you how to do it I seemed to have found out, he he.. more DCMA at work.

DVD+R newer infighing formats to make the format wars generate sales and profits for disk makers and hardware and generally confuse normal consumers who don't have a clue. like beta-vhs. DVD+R and some newer formats have some kind of DCMA going for them.

I've stayed with DVD-R for now to stay compatible with the most players. That may change again in about a year or so.

/ArtU

Year's up!