Posted by Smarty on 12/26/33 11:29

Justin,

These disks would definitely be a problem for the changers on the market
since none of them do double sided playing automatically. I've also found
that manually finding and flipping a single disk in the carousel is a big
pain, more so on the Sony than on the Pioneer. The 300 disk Pioneer 727 has
reasonable spacing from disk to disk, whereas the Sony changers squeeze 400
DVDs into the carousel in an extremely tight fit.

You could always rip both sides and remaster those disks to a single sided
double layer disk at lower bitrate. Not a great solution, but one which
would overcome the need to flip the disk. I had to do this with one of my
favorite movies (Robert DiNiro's Goodfellows) and a few other DVDs which
split the movie from front to back of the DVD.

Smarty




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> Top post fixed
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>> "Justin" <nospam@insightbb.com> wrote in message
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>>>>> gary.hendricks.user@gmail.com wrote on [16 Oct 2005 02:52:55 -0700]:
>>>>>> Well, one such unit that playes 300 DVDs is the Pioneer DV-F727
>>>>>> 301-Disc DVD Changer.
>>>>>
>>>>> Does it play both sides?
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Smarty wrote on [Sun, 16 Oct 2005 14:03:20 -0400]:
>>>> No it does not.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Then, what's the point?
>>
>>
> Smarty wrote on [Mon, 17 Oct 2005 00:18:08 -0400]:
>> Neither the Pioneer 727 or the Sony 400 DVD changers can automatically
>> play
>> double sided DVDs. Since double sided disks represent a very small
>> percentage of the commercial releases, and since many double sided disks
>> are
>> merely movies with one format 4:3 on one side and 16:9 widescreen on the
>> other, the manufacturers of these jukeboxes believe (correctly) that the
>> costs of adding dual sided playing would be unnecessary and overly
>> complex
>> and expensive.
>
> Yeah, except a lot of recent TV releases are double sided, with episodes
> on both sides.

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