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To: Peter V who wrote (42440)	6/25/1999 6:04:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Respond to of 50808

Yes the lasers can "look through" the first layer. Here's a good resource............................... Capacities of DVD: For reference, a CD-ROM holds about 650 megabytes, which is 0.64 gigabytes or 0.68 billion bytes. In the list below, SS/DS means single-/double-sided, SL/DL/ML means single-/dual-/mixed-layer (where mixed means single layer on one side, double layer on the other side), gig means gigabytes (2^30), G means billions of bytes (10^9). (See note about giga vs. billion in section 7.2.) DVD-5 (12cm, SS/SL): 4.38 gig (4.7 G) of data, over 2 hours of video DVD-9 (12cm, SS/DL): 7.95 gig (8.5 G), about 4 hours DVD-10 (12cm, DS/SL): 8.75 gig (9.4 G), about 4.5 hours DVD-14 (12cm, DS/ML): 12.33 gig (13.24 G), about 6.5 hours DVD-18 (12cm, DS/DL): 15.90 gig (17 G), over 8 hours DVD-1 (8cm, SS/SL): 1.36 gig (1.4 G), about half an hour DVD-2 (8cm, SS/DL): 2.48 gig (2.7 G), about 1.3 hours DVD-3 (8cm, DS/SL): 2.72 gig (2.9 G), about 1.4 hours DVD-4 (8cm, DS/DL): 4.95 gig (5.3 G), about 2.5 hours DVD-R (12cm, SS/SL): 3.68 gig (3.95 G) DVD-R (12cm, DS/SL): 7.38 gig (7.9 G) DVD-R (8cm, SS/SL): 1.15 gig (1.23 G) DVD-R (8cm, DS/SL): 2.29 gig (2.46 G) DVD-RAM (12cm, SS/SL): 2.40 gig (2.58 G) DVD-RAM (12cm, DS/SL): 4.80 gig (5.16 G) dvdresource.com