99 Minutes CDs?

[HeLLRaZoR]

I've read different places on the net that it is possible to burn up to 99 Minutes of data onto a CD as long as your burner and CD will allow it. If it's true, where can I purchase 99 Minutes CDs? Also, I have a Yamaha 2200E 20x10x40...will it be able to burn on those CDs?

[gooki]

www.cdmediaworld.com for more info on 99minute cdr's

www.blankcd.co.nz to purchase 99minute cdr's.

[canadian_fbi]

i'm curious... what sorts of results have people had with these? assuming that your drive is able to burn them... have they been reliable? i was thinking of buying a few to test and see if they'd work with my cd-r drive... but if people have used them and say they're crap, why bother.

[HeLLRaZoR]

Thanks for your help. It's 27.50$ for a 10 pack. What a rip off! I can get 50 80Min. cds for 30$, or 100 for 50$. So it's not worth it at all, not until the price comes down anyway.

[gooki]

By the way $27.50 in new zealand dollars which at the current exchange rate comes out to be $11.85USSD - still not cheap.

reliablility is fine, only problems i had was not all drives can read them. (i was using an LG 808b to write them).

[canadian_fbi]

this site has some 90/99 minute cd-rs at a reasonable price:

http://www.yesbuy.net/9099mincdrsi.html

shipping is a lot though... i put in an order for 25 and the shipping charge was almost as much as the cd-rs themselves. i was going to just buy 10 to test, but the shipping was so much on those i figured i'd better buy 25 because it'd save a ton of money if they work.

[caliburn]

99 minutes is all well and good but will your player support playback of all 99 minutes?

Be certain before spending the dough.

[movmasty]

yes, do tests and report here pls ;)

btw, seems that the counter in CD standard is from 00 to 99
so is impossible to go over 99 minutes....
unless you dont make a minute of 99 seconds......

[canadian_fbi]

Originally posted by caliburn
Be certain before spending the dough.
unfortunately i have to spend the dough before i can test and be certain. :) i think my cd-r drive is one alleged to support 90 minute burns, which is the kind of cd-r i got. 99 minutes seems a bit riskier in my opinion. but i certainly will fill the full capacity of the cd and test both writing and reading from the whole thing before i trust any permanent rips to the cds. just think of the extra quality or time you could fit on those extra 90 mb though... i'm hoping they work fine :)

[movmasty]

extra quality ? look at this......

extra quality (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=21612)

[canadian_fbi]

well... relatively speaking, of course :)

i know plenty of people watch divx movies on regular tvs... but has anyone ever tried to watch one on an hdtv? because i think the lines of resolution of most divx movies exceed what one would normally be able to send to a regular tv, but for an hdtv (especially a big 51" widescreen one like my girlfriend's dad has), i would think it would be an interesting challenge. of course, if i ever had a 51" widescreen hdtv, i'm probably not going to have to depend on my divx copies so much :)

[Sven Bent]

Originally posted by movmasty
yes, do tests and report here pls ;)

btw, seems that the counter in CD standard is from 00 to 99
so is impossible to go over 99 minutes....
unless you dont make a minute of 99 seconds......


actuall the internal counter on he cd kan only count to 80 minustes

90 m cd are showen as 10mins cd's
99 misn cd are shown as 19mins cd's

to get the full 99 mins you have to overburn

[movmasty]

my friend....
80 has two digits....
99 has two digits....

where you can write 80,you can write 99.

100 has three digits....

[LotionBoy]

The thing I don't understand about the counter is that it's in some form, a binary number (has to be). So it should max out at 64 or 128. puzzling . . .

LotionBoy

[movmasty]

CD time stamps are two digits (binary coded decimal, in case you were wondering), so exceeding 99 minutes isn't possible. You could, in theory, declare there to be 99 seconds in a minute and 99 sectors per second, but that would break just about everything that tried to read one. The limits of the specifications are being pushed at 80 minutes and even harder at 90, so don't expect much more out of CD-R. Some knowledgeable individuals have stated that the longest possible CD-R is 79 minutes, 59 seconds, 74 blocks long, because of the way that the last possible start time of the lead-out is encoded, but that doesn't seem to bear up in practice

http://www.cdrfaq.org/faq03.html#S3-8-2

@LotionBoy
But really in NYC write english in that way :confused:

[aleksander]

Well.Som of my numbers..
I can go up to 777MB (funny size BTW). My cd-writer (Yamaha 8x8x24) cannot read them (can burn them but cannot read). My DVD can play them just fine without any problems (LG 12x).
Had to test for the whole day to find this size....
Oh...and I buy in my hometown's computer store 800MB CDs for 60 cents (well...to be more precise - it is another currency, but it is equivalent of it)...

aleksander

[LotionBoy]

Originally posted by movmasty

@LotionBoy
But really in NYC write english in that way :confused: [/B]

dude, I leave out a comma and you jump on my English?

should have read:
The thing I don't understand about the counter is that it's, in some form, a binary number

thanks for the link though

LotionBoy

[movmasty]

,yes,the comma,