dvd-r over 4.3gig, is this poss - read in

[SneakyG]

help, i just got a dvd with three films on one from the market, teh quality of the films is not too good but what shocked me is that when i look at the size it is over 6.00 gb, my question is how? what disc's do they use when they copy films?

[Baldrick]

You mean commercial dvds? They can fit up to about ~8 GB on one side. http://www.dvddemystified.com/dvdfaq.html#3.3

DVDrs only support the dvd-5 format.

[SneakyG]

how would they get a cormercial dvd? teh dvd was a hanibal trilogy, it had silence of the lambs, hannibal and red dragon on it so it cant be a comercial dvd, red dragon was blatently a vcd rip

[snowmoon]

Just because it's not legitimate or legal does not mean they are not commercially produced.

[Myth(GJ)]

Its me again.

Is the DVD silver on the read side. DVD silvers can hold up to 18Gb (so I'm told). They are a favorite of pirates in Hong Kong. You send a movie of to a factory that will burn your movie to a DVD Silver. Provided you are buying about 100 copies of each. You then distribute this to pirates all over the world and make your money that way.

I used to import some of these from a guy in Sweden.

G.J.