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Date:      Wed, 06 Aug 1997 15:35:30 -0600
From:      "Michael K. Sanders" <msanders@aros.net>
To:        Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Cc:        garbanzo@hooked.net (Alex), msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, freebsd@atipa.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Status of USB, TX chipset, PIIX3, etc. 
Message-ID:  <199708062135.PAA29374@shell.aros.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 06 Aug 1997 11:23:27 PDT." <199708061823.LAA14457@phaeton.artisoft.com> 

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In message <199708061823.LAA14457@phaeton.artisoft.com>, Terry Lambert writes:
>
>DVD's require more hardware because they can hold a significantly
>larger amount of information.

What? 

>I believe you can burn a "short" DVD in a normal CD burner, and
>then pretend it's a DVD in oly 1/3 of the DVD drives out there.  8-(.

Sorry Terry, but in a word "No".

CD-Rs don't burn DVD, they burn CDs. You may be able to read that CD-R
disc in a DVD-ROM drive, but that doesn't make the disc DVD. 

DVD uses a shorter wavelength laser than CD. It is not possible to
read or write a DVD disc in a standard CD-ROM or CD-R drive.

:: Mike ::




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