You've buttered the popcorn. You've burned your latest home movie to DVD and you've chained your friends and family to the couch.

You’ve buttered the popcorn. You’ve burned your latest home movie to DVD and you’ve chained your friends and family to the couch. Now it’s time for them to sit back, relax, and enjoy your latest ma— wait a minute, whats wrong with this thing!?
You try turning the DVD player on and off, now you try cleaning the disk. Your even ready to blame it on the remote control, but wait a minute… Before you pull your computer into your living room for your world premier viewing, let the hostages go, because you and I need to have a little chat.
Did you burn that DVD on your computer? [nod]
Did you play it on your computer? [nod]
Did you print a pretty label for it? [nod with big grin]
Did you put that label on the disk? [nod]
That’s the problem, never do that again.
CDs hold about 700 megabytes on them
They are stored in little data pits as ones and zeros all around the disk in circles like a record
A laser moves up and down the CD as the CD spins.
A DVD holds 4.7 gigabytes, and that’s over 6 and a half times more information.
Wait a minute! These disks are the same size.
That means that the data pits on the DVD are smaller and the laser needs to be more accurate to read them
The nice printed label you made may actually throw the disk off balance when the disk spins.
Now on a CD, that’s okay, a little wobble is fine.
But on a DVD, the laser may not find the information it needs to play back your video correctly.
Now you know why your video won’t play back, but does that mean you cant have pretty covers on your disk? Yes
No, of course not, there are all kinds of solutions from special burners to DVD printers.
We’ll put some product suggestions in the links below, and save some popcorn for us
A DVD holds 7.7 billion gigabytes
And save some popcorn for us
[Camera Guy] Tiger
Too much
Transcribed by: Arjol K.
Make your homemade DVDs pretty
Here are some DVD printers and labeling devices that won’t interfere with playback.
Ink printers vary in cost and options, but can print in full color. Make sure it comes with colored ink (some don’t) and you will need special printable DVD-R discs.
You can also “burn” images onto a disk using a Lightscribe burner. These discs are gold colored and the burned text or images are black – so you can’t print in color. You will also need Lightscribe DVD-R discs.
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3 Comments
PhantomofConey
Listen close at 1:54. Camera Guy Speaks!Allan
lol..."yeah, that's the problem" (what NO technical assistance employee is allowed to say).Meandering
How about blue-ray. They hold even more information. Who would have thought that a pretty label would mess ...