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shmokes:
You can pick them up much cheaper even. The NEC 3500a is a 16x burner that will burn dual layer discs and you can pick it up at www.newegg.com for about $70. It is an excellent drive, to boot. The Pioneer 108 is only slightly more expensive and boasts similar capabilities.
The blank discs, though, are prohibitively expensive at this point -- about $10 a piece. A year from now, though, and we'll be buying them in spindles just like we currently do with DVD-Rs and CD-Rs. And, yes, they do work exactly like you assume they do. No need for DVD shrink.
GodSend25:
To answer your question : BEcause retail dvds you rent at blockbuster at 9+ gigs and the recordable ones you get at bestbuy are only 4.5 gigs. So often times it necessary to remove extras and menus to get the movie to fit on a recordable dvd.
As mentioned though, dual layers are out which I believe will allow you to make a 1->1 copy directly, although I have yet to see the media available to purchase.
shmokes:
Oh...the dual layer media is out there now. But like I said, it's prohibitively expensive. It's already come down, though, since I last saw it. As low as about $7 per disc.
namzep:
You can currently get single layer discs for under $.50/each (if bought in decent bulk). Which are very cost effective (at the cost of some quality, usually not much).
DYNAGOD:
i just got the demo of 23 Copy DVD and made a few disks..
the program works flawlessly.
You can extract the feature only and remove all the extra language and audio tracks and make just about any movie fit on a single normal dvd-r.
i just copied the directors cut of chronicles of riddick and watched it. came out perfect. no artifacting or problems.