Media only recognised as 4.3Gb

Discussion in 'DVD players' started by liquick, Oct 10, 2002.

  1. liquick

    liquick Guest

    for some reason Media of 4.7 is only recognised as 4.3 using A04 with any type of software-any clues? its with all makes of media

    running xp pro
     
    liquick, Oct 10, 2002
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  2. dRD

    dRD I hate titles Staff Member

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    "Japanese" GBs, just like HDDs. Have you ever bought 20GB HDD that actually stores 20GB? I haven't. Math is this:

    they say "4.7GB", but they actually mean "4.7 billion bytes", which is incorrect, since kilobyte is NOT 1000 bytes, but 1024 bytes instead. So, real 4.7GB would mean 4.7 x 1024 = 4812.8MB. But the thing what they mean -- 4,700,000,000 bytes -- is actually just 4.36GB.
     
    dRD, Oct 11, 2002
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  3. liquick

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    thanks fot the info-the bastards!!! :)
     
    liquick, Oct 12, 2002
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  4. jnihil

    jnihil Moderator Staff Member

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    The evil of marketing... the same people probably thought of price tags like $99.99.
     
    jnihil, Oct 12, 2002
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