[X4U] Why is my DVD Capacity so small?

[Nick Scalise]

I've found Taiyo Yuden disks to be very reliable and reasonably priced  
(in bulk).

http://www.digitalfaq.com/reviews/dvd-media.htm

I have tried the verbatim disks they recommend and my burner (PIONEER  
DVD-RW  DVR-108:) likes the Taiyo Yudens better.

YMMV.

On Feb 7, 2011, at 4:22 PM, John Erdman wrote:

> Progress but I don't know why.
>
> The first time I tried ImgBurn the creation of the disk image went  
> well, but when I went to write it to a new disk, the available space  
> on the new disk was only about 1.55 GB. The write aborted as I  
> reported earlier.
>
> I was trying to respond to a question about ow much space was  
> available. I couldn't remember exactly so I stuck another new disk  
> in the drive... And wonder of wonders, the data on this new disk  
> indicated that there was a full 4.7 GB of space available.  So I  
> tried burning it again.  Et voilå, next thing I knew, I got a  
> message that said  that my disk was written successfully.   And then  
> I rushed down to the DVD player on my TV, it proved to be a fully  
> functioning backup copy.  Perfect images and sound too.
>
> So maybe I'm having a Sony DVD disk problem like the one Dennis C  
> mentioned.   I guess next shopping trip I'll pick up a brand of disk  
> other than Sony for some experiments.
>
> Again, thanks to all for your help

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Nick Scalise
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