Re: OT: DVD formats

[Bruno Buys <bruno.grupos@gmail.com>]

Curt Howland wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
>
> Just a quick question. I finally got a dual-layer DVD writer, and made 
> up a huge collection of home movies to play on the DVD player. I 
> burned a DVD-R DL disk as a video DVD, and it worked _perfectly_ in 
> the commodity DVD player that's connected to my TV.
>
> However, when I try to play that same DVD on my laptop, which does not 
> have a dual-layer DVD _burner_ but has had no problems reading the 
> 8+GB normal movie DVDs, it cannot read the disk. 
>
> Is this normal?
>
> Also, DVD-R DL disks are darned hard to find. the +R DL disks are 
> everywhere, but my player only plays DVD-R 4.5GB disks so I 
> deliberately went looking for the -R DL just in case it wouldn't read 
> +R of either density. How very strange all of this is.
>
> Curt-
>   
How many test disks you burned? Maybe you tested your latop's dvd drive 
with one bad luck media. I have the same feeling, dvd's are strange. I 
bumped all sort of incompatibilities, already. Even with single 4.4 gb 
disks. Since I bought my first dvd burner, I couldn't even come up with 
an empirical strategy of what works and what not.
Did you see these docs? Maybe they can shed some light.

http://www.digitalfaq.com/media/dvdmedia.htm
http://www.digitalfaq.com/media/dvdformats.htm