Has any of you been brave enough to stick one these thick disks into the player? I have had to take apart a slot loaded player before, because a thick disk got stuck in it. I would not be looking forward doing the same to my changer in the TL.

dee
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Anyone besides me not have a clue what he is asking?

 

That's why questions like these need to be posted in BT/Navi/Audio/Video where there are people more likely to understand this kind of stuff.

Anyway, I didn't know dual discs were thicker, I just thought they had stuff on both sides or had two layers of stuff on one side, so you can see how much I know about this.

 

I know that if you put a label on a CD after you burn it, you may run into clearance issues. The paper used for labels is pretty thick.
Maybe that is what he is talking about.

 

Dual Discs are just a tiny bit thicker than a standard CD or DVD, but extensive testing has shown very few problems, and by personal experience, I can tell you that all the Dual Discs that I have tested (10 so far) work great in the TL. ric

 

I have never heard of these. Are they a new type of music format? If so, what are the pros/cons to them if any?

 

Sorry should have posted in the right sub forum. Dual disc is 25% thicker than regular CDs. The spec for single CDs and DVDs is 1.2 mm while dual disk is 1.5 mm. I had problems with some slot loaded home players with extra thick disk. The paper is a different issue. The paper causes the rollers to slip that is why it will not eject. ;-). BTW Dual disc, is just a marketing gimmic in my mind it is a sub-standard cd layer stuck to the backl of a DVD disk. The DVD can be video or audio. Technically it is a real bad idea but i am afraid this is the direction the music industry is going as far as DVD-A is concerned. The more elegant solution is what the SACD people did with hibryd SACDs, where there is a transparent CD layer in front of the DVD layer. Depending of the focus depth the laser can read the CD or the DVD layer.

dee
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My concern wasn't that the dualdisc wouldn't fit but rather that they would make it a DVD format to put some video content and not DVD-Audio which would make it useless in our players. I'm glad to know that ricwilson has tried some and they work. I didn't even know that 10 were released yet. That is a bit of a relief.

 

Hi All,

If you've wanted to try DualDisc but can't find it in the stores, here is a good start - 45 titles released by Silverline:

DualDisc: http://www.dvdlauncher.com/search.php?browse=artist

DVD-Audio: http://www.silverlinerecords.com/catalog_main.asp

Enjoy, ric