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   From: jimgysin@geemail.com   
      
   SFTV_troy sent the following on 1/5/2010 9:05 AM:   
   > On Jan 5, 2:56 am, Greg Goss  wrote:   
   >> SFTV_troy  wrote:   
   >>> Yep.  Unfortunately putting 4 hour-long shows per DVD has now become   
   >>> standard.  I don't think DVD was ever designed to handle that much   
   >>> video in such a small space (4.7 gig).   
   >> I thought that the DVD standard went up to 17 gig if you used all the   
   >> layers defined in the standard.   
   >   
   > Nope.  A dual layer disc holds 8.5 gig per side, and every show I've   
   > ever bought was single-sided.  The 2001 Trek TNG discs were single   
   > layer, so only half that.  They squeezed a lot of video (3.1 hours)   
   > into a very small space.   
      
   I am 99.99% certain that TNG disks do not cram four episodes onto a 4.7   
   Gb disks.  I'll check when I have a disk in hand, but I'm pretty sure   
   that I already know what the answer will be.   
      
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