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   From: gossg@gossg.org   
      
   SFTV_troy  wrote:   
      
   >You're wrong.  The DVD standard specifies 2 layers per side - no   
   >more.  Therefore the only way to get a 17 gig DVD is to make it a   
   >"flippie" i.e. a double-sided disc.   
      
   I rented a flippie "Princess Bride" once.  It had the widescreen on   
   one side and the 4:3 on the other, with the only label being a   
   fine-print thing around the hole.  That's the only flippie DVD I've   
   ever seen.   
      
   I presume that if the movie guys actually used these, we'd see players   
   with multiple read heads.  DSDD floppy disks didn't need to be   
   flipped.  But the players never built double-sided because the studios   
   never used double sided, so the studios put the "extra materials"   
   stuff onto a second disk, so the players never put in the second   
   head...  If either of them had used double sided, then the other would   
   have caught up.   
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   Tomorrow is today already.   
   Greg Goss, 1989-01-27   
      
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