Posted by Citizen Bob on 12/17/06 14:49

On 16 Dec 2006 16:05:23 -0800, "AndrewD" <andrew_duerden@excite.com>
wrote:

>Can someone explain to me why I can only record around one hours worth
>of TV on my Sony DVD recorder on the highest quality setting? I can
>buy a DVD box set of a TV series (24 for example) on which they manage
>to fit 4 episodes in high quality dolby 5.1 surround sound.

>Why can I not fit the same amount of data onto a normal recordable DVD?

You can if you use the same resolution, which is 2-hour.

The 1-hour setting is higher than standard DVD.

The MPEG-2 chips in the newest DVDRs do a fantastic job even at
6-hour. You can convince yourself of that by making a series of test
recordings and checking them with GSpot. For example on one of my
DVDRs I can get 720x480 at 1000 Kb/s from 6-hour resolution. That's
good enough for a 19" viewscreen and not bad for even a 62" DLP.


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