is this a new kind of DVD?

[nietsni3]

i am watching Butterfly effect rent from Blockbuster now. and when i chose "Director's cut", it said flip the DVD to the other side to access that feature. that means this DVD from blockbuster using double side? and yeah, both side of the DVD look "blank" (shiny, no label, no brand), just like those generic cheapo cd you may see in the store

 

[SynthDude2001]

This has been around for quite some time.

 

[NutBucket]

Uhm, my copy of Ronin from many years ago is like that. One side is widescreen, the other full screen.

 

[EvilYoda]

you're serious, huh. Yeah...it's been around...since DVDs have been on the market...

 

[CrackRabbit]

Yep, old stuff. My El Mariachi / Desperado DVD is like that.

 

[scorpmatt]

i have a copy Spaceballs that is wide on one side and full on the other.....now how come they dont sell these type of dvds in the stores so we can burn them?

 

[oogabooga]

^ what the guys above me said, i have many dvd's like that.

edit: i guess i didn't wig out when i saw it cause i'm used to laser disks (they were often double sided)

 

[Anubis]

my Brand New Conan DVD is like that has Conan the destroyer on 1 side and Conan the Barbarian on the other

both WS

 

[nietsni3]

so how come they dont sell this kind of DVD in the store? seems like the inventing of Double layer DVD was unneccessary then????

 

[Heifetz]

you want to flip the dvd during the middle of a movie?

 

[Zim Hosein]

Originally posted by: nietsni3
so how come they dont sell this kind of DVD in the store? seems like the inventing of Double layer DVD was unneccessary then????

:Q

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: nietsni3
so how come they dont sell this kind of DVD in the store? seems like the inventing of Double layer DVD was unneccessary then????

They do. You can also have double-sided double-layer discs, which is probably what the buttefly effect DVD was. I think it was Sony and Philips that introduced the two competing formats for higher capacity DVDs years ago, and obviously they both caught on. Usually double-sided DVDs are used to put the full screen and widescreen DVDs on the same disc.

 

[Ikonomi]

Originally posted by: scorpmatt
i have a copy Spaceballs that is wide on one side and full on the other.....now how come they dont sell these type of dvds in the stores so we can burn them?

Hehe, I thought of Spaceballs when I read the thread title.

But I didn't know they sold blank double sided DVD media. Cool.

 

[cucumber]

Originally posted by: scorpmatt
i have a copy Spaceballs that is wide on one side and full on the other.....now how come they dont sell these type of dvds in the stores so we can burn them?

If I remember right there were competing standards back when DVDs were about to come out One from Toshiba (and a few other companies I forget) and Sony+Philips (and more companies I forget....) Most DVDs are double layer but instead of two sides (toshiba style) they are one outer semi transparant layer, and an inner layer (sony philips style) Instead of fliping the disk or having two laser devices, the single laser just changes the focus from the first layer into the 2nd. Realy more a convinience than anything. Instead of forcing the viewer to flip the disk, or increase the cost of DVD players to include the ability to read both sides, they went for convinience and lower cost players.


Ths Sony style was the most popular and most DVDs are like this. There are the double sided ones too though, and especialy if a movie comes with several versions (wide vs standard screen, directors cuts, etc...) The dual layer (one sided) seems to be pretty much the standard though.

 

[imported_earthslash]

This has been around for a while, and when I first remember DVD's coming out, I saw this format more than I do now today.

 

[Jombo]

maybe you were too young, or too old when the first dvds came out. and it's more like, they couldn't do DS, so they had to physically double side it.. but Zim said it best..

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein

Originally posted by: nietsni3
so how come they dont sell this kind of DVD in the store? seems like the inventing of Double layer DVD was unneccessary then????

:Q

 

[0roo0roo]

very old. earliest dvds were double sided single layer. easier ot make then dual. some uber editions are double sided double layer. like with cinema paradiso. directors cut on one side, original cut on the other. single layer is not enough bitrate for many movies, early dvds were pretty lousy.

 

[Whisper]

Just to enlighten, the Rocky I dvd that I have is like this...widescreen on one side and formatted on the other.

 

[Adul]

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: nietsni3
so how come they dont sell this kind of DVD in the store? seems like the inventing of Double layer DVD was unneccessary then????

They do. You can also have double-sided double-layer discs, which is probably what the buttefly effect DVD was. I think it was Sony and Philips that introduced the two competing formats for higher capacity DVDs years ago, and obviously they both caught on. Usually double-sided DVDs are used to put the full screen and widescreen DVDs on the same disc.

its been part of the DVD spec since its ratification.