hi, I’m new to DVD recording due to me buying a DVD recorder the other day, my player is capable of recording 14 hours continually of Video, but where do I get the DVD+R or DVD-R discs from capable of recording 14 hours?


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Alistair

I suppose a dual layer blank disc recorded at lowest quality may be able to fit 14 hours of material on it - a single layer disc can record up to eight hours on some DVDRs. But it seems a very wasteful thing to do - blank single layer DVDs cost 10p each, to fit 14 hours at highest quality on them would only cost £1.40. Which is a lot more than a single dual layer blank disc would cost, and would be in a much more watchable quality also.

at the moment, I’ve got dvd+r discs which can only record 120mins of Video, I’m not wanting to record 14 hours of video straight on every disc, I just want to know where can I get discs that will record 8 hours of video on them even

No you haven't. You've got discs that you can record 120 mins of video on at one particular quality setting (probably SP). But you can fit less than that on there if you record at a higher quality, and you can fit a lot more on there if you record at a lower quality. The disc itself doesn't determine how much you can fit on it - the quality of the recording determines how much you can fit on it.

Most DVD recorders can fit either six or eight hours of video on a single disc (what you call a 120 min disc) at lowest quality - I'm not sure what the Sony's lowest quality is like. I had a Panasonic DVDR that could fit 8 hours on a single disc at lowest quality. I've now got an LG DVDR that can only fit 6 hours on a single disc at lowest quality. But obviously LG lowest quality recordings are at a higher quality than Panasonic lowest quality recordings.

How do you work out how many hours you can fit on a DVD, is it the higher the quality, more you can fit on a DVD+R?

Fairly obviously it's the complete opposite - the higher the quality, the less you can fit on - your DVD recorder probably tells you how much will fit in each format.

Usually the top quality will only fit one hour or so.

The user manual for RDR-HXD 970, available from the Sony website has, on page 71 a table showing recording times against quality for a standard DVD. Below it is a list of times for a dvd DL

On the Sonys' it's half an hour - which is probably better quality than the original broadcast

Lowest quality is six hours.

Mine is getting on a bit now so the ranges may have changed since then.