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Double Sided DVD?
I've just got half way through 'A Time To Kill', which I bought a few days ago as I've never seen it all the way through.
Anyway, half way in and it just stops. So, here I am wondering what to do and contemplating taking it back tomorrow. Then I notice, on the scene selection it says 'side a'. So I turn the disc over and put it back in and what do you know, there is the rest of my film.
It is only like 2 hours 20 minutes and I've got DVDs with 5 and 6 hours on each one.
Is it just me or is a double sided disc sort of random lol?
Anyway, half way in and it just stops. So, here I am wondering what to do and contemplating taking it back tomorrow. Then I notice, on the scene selection it says 'side a'. So I turn the disc over and put it back in and what do you know, there is the rest of my film.
It is only like 2 hours 20 minutes and I've got DVDs with 5 and 6 hours on each one.
Is it just me or is a double sided disc sort of random lol?
Its the same for the movie IT
They probably didn't want to pay extra to make it dual layer... So instead just made it double sided... Cheap so-and-so-s...
But even then it wouldn't need 2 sides? It's only 2 hours and a half. hmmm.. Are there extras on it or something?
But even then it wouldn't need 2 sides? It's only 2 hours and a half. hmmm.. Are there extras on it or something?
hmm seems strange. I have the friends series on dvd, they are double sided, 4 episode per side, but the episodes are only 20 mins each, i think its save on production costs thus increase profit
affinity89
I've just got half way through 'A Time To Kill', which I bought a few days ago as I've never seen it all the way through.
Anyway, half way in and it just stops. So, here I am wondering what to do and contemplating taking it back tomorrow. Then I notice, on the scene selection it says 'side a'. So I turn the disc over and put it back in and what do you know, there is the rest of my film.
It is only like 2 hours 20 minutes and I've got DVDs with 5 and 6 hours on each one.
Is it just me or is a double sided disc sort of random lol?
Anyway, half way in and it just stops. So, here I am wondering what to do and contemplating taking it back tomorrow. Then I notice, on the scene selection it says 'side a'. So I turn the disc over and put it back in and what do you know, there is the rest of my film.
It is only like 2 hours 20 minutes and I've got DVDs with 5 and 6 hours on each one.
Is it just me or is a double sided disc sort of random lol?
Just guessing here, but it could be down to the file size. If the picture's of really high quality (compared to some other films), maybe it wouldn't all fit on that side, so they broke it off at a logical point rather than when that side of the DVD was full.
I guess so.
The extras just consists of the film trailer I think.
No doubt I will forget everytime I watch the thing though and go into panic mode when it shuts off half way through lol.
=D
The extras just consists of the film trailer I think.
No doubt I will forget everytime I watch the thing though and go into panic mode when it shuts off half way through lol.
=D
qubog
Never bought Friends or ER eh? Get out less OP 
Haha. I actually own Friends but they are not double sided - just lots of discs to take up space I don't have.
=D
depends which friends you own, i have the series box set, 3 discs per box, all are double sided
There's no way in Hell you have a store-bought DVD that's 5-6 hours on one side, but yes, if you compile your own, you can fit that much on (albeit at a much lower bitrate than pre-recorded discs).
But yes, this practise was very common with the first batch of DVDs - there's a terrible DVD of Goodfellas that's still sold in HMV and the like, where you have to swap sides. There are a few DVDs that make semi-smart use of the double-sides, though - A Bug's Life and some of the Superman DVDs have 4:3 full frame and 16:9 widescreen on different sides, although to be honest, it's pretty redunant when most TVs can crop/stretch the picture anyway.
But yes, this practise was very common with the first batch of DVDs - there's a terrible DVD of Goodfellas that's still sold in HMV and the like, where you have to swap sides. There are a few DVDs that make semi-smart use of the double-sides, though - A Bug's Life and some of the Superman DVDs have 4:3 full frame and 16:9 widescreen on different sides, although to be honest, it's pretty redunant when most TVs can crop/stretch the picture anyway.
Yes, seems to be the case for cheaper discs. My copies of both Goodfellas and The Complete Tom and Jerry volumes are double-sided.
I think they were the first generation of DVD's before dual layer DVD's, they may still do it to cut cost.
me too! the one with wide-screen on one side and normal on the other??
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