Hey! I bought these blank DVD+R discs that hold 2 hours worth of movie in Short Play; and 4 hours in EP. I'm just wondering how I make full use of the 4 hours? Is there anything special that I need to do, or should it just automatically work? Thanks
Hi Smiles21, All DVD5 discs are capable of doing that. To get the EP mode, you would have to select that mode as your recording speed when recording a movie in a stand alone recorder. It should have something like record speed/mode or something like that. My panasonic DVDR has the following settings for a DVD5 disc. 1. XP High Quality - 1 hr 2. SP standard play(normal) 2 hrs 3. LP Long Play - 4 hrs 4. EP Extra Long Play - 8 hrs The only difference is the bit rate they are recorded at. Picture quality starts dropping off once you go beyond 2 hrs. The EP one looks really bad, almost vhs tape type bad. Ive used the LP mode on B&W old movies, and it seems fine. So, it would depend on what machine you were using, and how it records/changes recording speed. On a PC, to get 4 standard hours of movie on to a 2 hr size normal DVD5, you would have to shrink those movies to fit. Hours is not the best way to measure if a movie will fit on a DVD5. The size of the movie in GB is what will let you know if you need to shrink or not. Hope that helps.
