Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2441 mails)

[Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>]

James,

On Wednesday 01 June 2005 04:59, James Knott wrote:
> Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
> > On Tue, May 31, Ken Schneider wrote:
> >>>The hardware isn't faulty - Distributing Linux on a media set that
> >>>requires brand new hardware is a little bit of a flakey idea, in
> >>> my opinion.
> >
> > If your drive cannot read duallayer DVDs, your hardware is faulty.
> > Every video DVD out there is DL.
>
> Not quite.  I've seen some double sided disks.  Normally, they have
> wide screen format on one side and standard on the other.

That's one option, but not the only way they're used. I have discs with 
two feature-length movies, one on each side and others with a single 
4:3 format with different episodes on each side as well as some with 
different screen formats of the same work on each side.

I'm sure there's both economics and some marketing to it. If the vendor 
chooses dual-sided, they cannot put a label on the disc(s), e.g.

Nonetheless, the standard calls for single-sided, double-sided, 
dual-layer and double-sided, dual-layer combined.

Hardware that cannot handle any of these is not compliant with the 
standard.


Randall Schulz