DVD Burning limit..

[RichieF]

Hi friends.., sorry if wrong section..
Why i can't to burning DVD movie to full disc..(4,7 GB)..?
And only limit to...about 4,3xx GB.
Thanx..

[ROF]

For the same reason why a 20GB hard drive won't store a full 20GB worth of user data.

[guns1inger]

HDD manufacturers and DVD disc manufacturers count a GB as 1000mb, which brings you up short when measured against actual data. Bummer, aye ?

[offline]

Manufacturers often quote the unformatted capacity and 1000 bytes= a megabyte; whereas in real life, computers "count" a megabyte as 1024 bytes (which adds up) and some disc capacity is taken up in formating/writing and in file slack space.

moving you to a more suitable forum

[cpotoso]

This is a common problem, which is why most scientific societies these days are proposing that the kilo, mega, giga, tera be used only for 10^3, 10^6, etc. For the 2^10 they propose the kibi, for 2^20 the mebi, etc, as alternatives. So many megabytes (or should I say, mebibytes) would be saved if these ideas would be used...