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cds too small for burning needs
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Posted by: he4rts

anyone know where i can buy bigger cds?with more room than the reg burnable cd?

Posted by: ekÆsine

the max is 800MB (or more if overburning) for a recordable CD. If you need more try using a DVD burner

Posted by: he4rts

thanks :muah:

Posted by: Spartan 1394

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by ekÆsine [/i]
[B]the max is 800MB (or more if overburning) for a recordable CD. If you need more try using a DVD burner [/B][/QUOTE]
While that is true for most CD burners, the Plextor Premium can burn up to 1GB onto a 700MB cd. But like you said, DVD is the way to go.

[URL=http://www.plextor.com/english/products/Premium.html]Sexy Plexy[/URL]

Posted by: blackmamba

I'm using Nero to burn movies to CD, no DVD burner here. Many of the movies I receive are about 690-700MB, but Nero shows that the file is way too large to burn to CD(the graph is way over 800mb). I can't figure out what to do as far as burning goes and I don't want to diminish the quality too much, any suggestions?

Posted by: intercodes

[I][QUOTE]I'm using Nero to burn movies to CD, no DVD burner here. Many of the movies I receive are about 690-700MB, but Nero shows that the file is way too large to burn to CD(the graph is way over 800mb). I can't figure out what to do as far as burning goes and I don't want to diminish the quality too much, any suggestions?[/QUOTE]

The cd capacity is 700 Mb or [COLOR=red] 80 minutes [/COLOR] .as far as the data fits into any of the 2 categories, you can safely burn stuff

[QUOTE]While that is true for most CD burners, the Plextor Premium can burn up to 1GB onto a 700MB cd.[/QUOTE]

What the!!!!. Have anyone tried that? Never heard of such a thing? what is it...a new technology or what? can you share some info?

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Posted by: macrosoftlindow

try compressing the movie file to fit it on the disc.

Posted by: Spartan 1394

[quote]What the!!!!. Have anyone tried that? Never heard of such a thing? what is it...a new technology or what? can you share some info? [/quote]
[URL=http://www.plextor.com/english/products/Premium.html]Sexy Plexy[/URL]

Posted by: intercodes

[QUOTE] allows high capacity storage of up to 1 GB on a 700 MB disc. With this advanced feature, you can increase the maximum writing capacity up to 40%*[/QUOTE]

Thats amazing. Have anyone actually tried burning 1 GB to 700 Cd-R? . And what about the cd-r? are they speciaaly designed or the same old one's ..

Posted by: Simon

no point compressing a movie its already dont zipping it will save maybe 10-15mb

Zimon

Posted by: EricB

that is the overburn (I think that's what it is called) technology, that fries cd/ dvd burner.

it is not worth the troulble

Posted by: beedubaya

I think its time our society move beyond CDs for data. Before long, CDs will be as obsolete for data as 3 1/2 inch floppies. UT2004 has i think 6 CDs. I would imagine that next years games will have even more. Its time that DVD becomes the standard for data storage.

Posted by: ekÆsine

UT2004 comes in a DVD version doesn't it?

Posted by: sunsider

yep. going dvd is the way. dvd burners should be standard issue with pc's lol, just as floppy drives used to be.

Posted by: southernlady

You still need floppy drives for some things...don't get rid of them yet. Liz

Posted by: Simon

wat do u use floppys for?

Zimon

Posted by: southernlady

You need them for updating your bios, for some benchmarking programs. And if you are transfering very small files, floppies make sense esp if you happen to be transfering to an older computer at one end. Liz

Posted by: grego

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by blackmamba [/i]
[B]I'm using Nero to burn movies to CD, no DVD burner here. Many of the movies I receive are about 690-700MB, but Nero shows that the file is way too large to burn to CD(the graph is way over 800mb). I can't figure out what to do as far as burning goes and I don't want to diminish the quality too much, any suggestions? [/B][/QUOTE]

I assume you're talking about burning V-CDs with Nero. The reason for your dilemna is that Nero is transcoding your files (to V-CD format) before it burns them. So, if your files were only 600mb, they might transcode to 700mb and fit on the disc.