On Tue, 31 May 2005, Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org> wrote:-
On Tuesday 31 May 2005 1:46 pm, David Bolt wrote:
They aren't new style at all as the dual layered disc format was a part of the DVD specs from the start, and any DVD drive with the DVD logo should be able to easily read them. If the drive can't read them then it is faulty, either through not being compliant with the DVD spec, or because the hardware is broken. While the multi-layered format may have been part of the DVD spec from the start, many older DVD readers could not read the multi-layered DVD.
Then they are broken[0].
Neither my laptop nor my wife's desktop systems can read it, and I have encountered a number of other older systems that were unable to read it.
As it was a requirement that DVD drives should be able to read dual layered discs, you have broken hardware[0]. The same goes for the other DVD drives that have a difficulty in reading dual layered discs.
Just in case you haven't seen it, in the thread "remastering suse 9.3 DVD" William Gallafent posted about this fact[1]. Here's the link he included:
<URL:http://www.dvddemystified.com/dvdfaq.html#1.18>
[0] It might not be broken. The laser could be having a difficulty reading the disc because it needs to be cleaned. If the drive still fails to read them after cleaning, it's broken.
[1] If you have a difficulty in finding it, the message-ID is <200505311712.48841.william@gallaf.net> and it should be archived as message number 238016. The 1997 DVD specification called for a 4.7GB (DVD-5) data capacity however it did talk about dual layer (DVD-9). My point is that some
On Tue, 31 May 2005 22:16:10 +0100 David Bolt <fhfr-yva-r@davjam.org> wrote: older DVD ROM drives did not ever have the capability to read the dual layer DVDs. I'm not sure when DVDs with dual-layer capacity started tpo be included with PCS. Both of my DVD readers (my laptop and wife's computer) were build before 2000. -- Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9