Posted by STINGER on 12/31/06 16:46

lets try this...
he was asking why he could only get 1 hr (the highest setting) on a dvd
where a commercial dvd can get 4 hr. and the answer is because of dual layer
....
if his recorder supported dual layer he could get 4 hr (dvd quality ) as
well

rmember he said ...

> >>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.

i am assuming that the 1 hr setting is higher that dvd quality and the 2 hr
is dvd
quality and supposedly 3 or 4 up to 6 hr is lower than dvd quality. but that
is where
the rest of the answers dwelled into instead of his actual question ...

"Quanta" <none@none.NET> wrote in message
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> "Citizen Bob" <spam@uce.gov> wrote in message
> news:45855835.376795343@news-server.houston.rr.com...
> > 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.
>
>
> What DVDRs have these chips? I want one.
>
>

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