Those are the figures I was thinking of ... I was just off a bit on the result ... DVD 2.4X is about CD-R 21.6X.
> -----Original Message----- > From: [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 2:06 PM > To: Lucans, Gunars > Subject: [filmscanners] Re: OT: DVD formats > > > Hi, > > On 2 Sep 2003 at 13:44, Lucans, Gunars wrote: > > > Note that 2.4x for DVD is not the same as 2.4x for CD-R and > is quite a > > bit faster (although I can't find a reference just now, it's more on > > the order of 30x for cd-r). > > This topic is coming up lately. Could be the price breaks, so people > are thinking about it. So am I. Here's something I lifted from > another list. > > "The difference between CDR speeds and DVD speeds is for CDR > speeds each 1x = 150KB sec for DVDs each 1x = 1353KB sec. > > So 4x would be for CDs (4X150 = 600KB sec) and 4x for DVDs > (4x1353 = 5,412KB sec or 5.4MBps) > > So recording DVD is much faster than CDR recording since DVD > drives have a higher storage capacity of 4.7 GB single-sided as > opposed to CDR 600 - 800MB single-sided and need a much higher > bandwidth for packet writing." > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > -------------------------- > Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with > 'unsubscribe filmscanners' > or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the > message title or body > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
