Advantages: Twice as much space Disadvantages: Five times as expensive (doesn't add up) and reaaaallly slow
...familiar with computers know that Verbatim are pretty much it when it comes to manufacture and distribution. I use their discs in particular for backing up and moving around my music collection, which is fairly big. I usually use the standard 4.7Gb discs for this and will probably continue to be so for reasons you will find out. At first glance the 8.6Gb DL (meaning Dual Layer) discs have one big advantage: You guessed it, the size. So here's the ... ...needed to read the discs. Verbatim also markets an 8x version (very expensive) and there are 16x versions available (very, very expensive) but this would be the main flaw. If they were a lot faster it may be worth shelling out to upgrade your DVD player and paying five times as much for the discs but as it is …
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The display item is a ten pack spindle so you may want to invest in some individual boxes, and treat em nice; rewritables ...
LuckyDenverMinty 15.12.2008 (17.12.2008)
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