Ok now we must differentiate between a dvd-r / dvd-rw and dvd-ram.
dvd-r/rw == expensive (over 5 grand)
discs written by dvd-r/rw can be read in ANY dvd-rom
unit..
dvd-ram == not as expensive (300 +)
discs cannot be read in any other dvd-rom unit, be it in
a
computer or standalone. ONLY readable in other dvd-ram
units.
"DVD-RAM is simply a storage device and does no encoding
or
decoding. Simplisticly, you could think of it as the
optical equivalent
of a removeable hard disk drive."
HTH
Andrew
----- Original Message -----
From: Justin Ryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Andrew A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, November 06, 1999 11:31 PM
Subject: Re: wired story on the DVD hack
> panasonic also has them - actually, they were the first, and the prices
> have gone down.. you can get a dvd-ram drive off of buycomp.com for $370
> or so, and that's SCSI - it does CD-R/RW and DVD-R/RW, comes w/ a dvd-ram
> media I think, which is worth ~$30
>
> -Justin
>
> On Sat, 6 Nov 1999, Andrew A wrote:
>
> > I hope you meant "EXpensive" instead of "INexpensive", unless of course
you
> > consider over 5 grand inexpensive.... Here's the ony two dvd-r and
dvd-rw
> > units i've seen for sale:
> >
> > http://www.pioneerusa.com/cd_dvd.html#dvdrec
> >
> > Just wanted to give an example.... yes they do exist!!
> > lol
> > Andrew
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Justin Ryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: Mark Hattarki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Cc: SIGLinux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Saturday, November 06, 1999 5:16 PM
> > Subject: Re: wired story on the DVD hack
> >
> >
> > > > Quick naive question: What was preventing you from just doing a
complete
> > > > raw copy of the DVD? Is there a portion of DVD-Rs that is not
writable
> > or
> > > > something? It seems like if there is a key on the DVD, and you copy
> > > > everything as is, the DVD player would not know the diff between
your
> > copy
> > > > and the original.
> > >
> > > This was also addressed in the article (because I thought the same
thing
> > > ;p) the current writeables are not big enough to handle a movie, by
about
> > > 1GB.. some time next year, they are planned to 'grow' - the guy who
wrote
> > > the article speculated that they will probably have to resolve the
piracy
> > > issue before then - good luck ;p
> > >
> > > DVD-R drives are, from what I hear, pretty inexpensive at this point..
I'm
> > > wondering if they work w/ apps like cdrecord, and just have a bigger
> > > filesystem or something like that.. maybe I'll look into it.. they
also
> > > have DVD-RAM drives, which are pretty smooth.. kinda like CD-RW but I
> > > think better.. hopefully this time around someone got the idea to just
> > > save space for the filesystem and not worry about the multisession
crap ;p
> > >
> > > -Justin
> > >
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