17 Gig not true as far as I am concerned. There either 4 or 8 gig. The 8 gig are double sided and your burner needs to support those. Also they are quite expensive. I myself use the 4 gig ones. It works out to around 4.4 gig actually.
*********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 11/8/2007 at 5:13 AM Sarah wrote: >I don't know where my recording prof got this info but he said that DVDs can hold about 17 gb of data? i don't remember reading >that anywhare and that sounds a bit big for one disk, even dool layer DVDs. > >SA&G > >The holidays are upon us. visit http://shop.marrie.org for great bargains! >----- Original Message ----- >From: "albert griffith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "'PC Audio Discussion List'" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> >Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 2:36 AM >Subject: RE: MP3's DVD's and Bit Rates. > > >You can record on those disks just like you can on traditional compact >disks. The disks most people, like me, have access to hold around five gigs >of data. They come in writable and rewritable types. You need a different >kind of drive to read and write to them but they're not terribly expensive. >I believe the latest disks, blue ray, hold fifty gigs but I'm not sure of >this. I have a pack of the disks I first mentioned but I haven't used any >of them yet. I will be shortly, however, because I'm ripping 650 disks to >my hard drive and plan to use these as more or less permanent storage. > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >On Behalf Of Gary Wood >Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 11:15 PM >To: PC audio discussion list. >Subject: MP3's DVD's and Bit Rates. > >Hi All! We've discussed file sizes of MP3's vs. WAV. Now, what is the file >size of a DVD, especially DVD audio? You can get more on a DVD than you can >on a CD. As great as DVD's sound, is the file size smaller, or is it a more >compressed format? > >Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... >http://www.pc-audio.org > >To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... >http://www.pc-audio.org > >To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... >http://www.pc-audio.org > >To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] djc's Jukebox: http://paulmerrell.net:9212 (96K) http://paulmerrell.net:9660 (96K) http://ultrastreams.us:9660 (128K) Saturday Evenings 9 to midnight Eastern. My Journal http://livejournal.com/users/djc1 email Or Msn: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I C Q Number Is: 4781694 Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
