Full capacity?

[EdwardMartinIII]

I have an IBM DVD-RAM drive from a few years back. I can burn ordinary DVD-R disks, no problem (well, I have Win 98, which means I have a 2G file size limit problem, but that'll go away when I upgrade to a new box).

Now, I can spent more money and buy myself these 9.8G disks and supposedly, my DVD-RAM can burn 'em.

What I want to know -- if you guys know -- is can I make a very long playing DVD out of all this? Can I basically put, like, three features on a DVD that I can play on my console DVD player?

Cheers,


Edward

"Cut a hole in the door. Hang a flap. Criminy, why didn't I think of this earlier?!" -- inventor of the cat door

 

[WizyWyg]

DVD-Ram? The cluncky DVD-type discs in its own case?

Do you have a "set-top" DVD-Ram player?

 

[EdwardMartinIII]

The DVD-RAM I've seen has been cartridged disks, yes. I don't know about clunky, per se. Are there reliability issues?

My console player only plays bare disks, so if DVD-RAM disks only come in the cartridges, then that pretty much answers my question.

Cheers,


Edward

"Cut a hole in the door. Hang a flap. Criminy, why didn't I think of this earlier?!" -- inventor of the cat door

 

[WizyWyg]

Yeah, it does. DVD-Ram requires a Set-top DVD-Ram player, which is why that format quickly died out ( ie ala DiVx discs). Very clunky. You'd only be able to play those disc in/on your ocmputer.

THOUGH Panasonic does still produce a DVD_Ram player comboed with their DVD_R recorder. Though Im assuming that too will be going the way of the do-do.