Just for the hell of it, I loaded up the Xbox 360 HD DVD drive on my MacBook with Vista beta installed to check out the sizes of my HD DVDs.
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Complete list so far of disc sizes reported in this thread:
12 Monkeys: 21.9 GiB - 23 532 732 416 bytes
2 Fast 2 Furious: 21.2 GiB - 22 857 646 080 bytes
The Adventures Of Robin Hood: 27.2 GB - 29 238 362 112 bytes
Apollo 13: 27.6 GiB - 29 643 898 880 bytes
Batman Begins: 24.8 GiB - 26 637 697 024 bytes
Blazing Saddles: 25.4 GiB - 27 279 753 216 bytes
Caddyshack: 19.7 GiB - 19 315 032 064 bytes
Casablanca: 22.4 GiB - 24 411 897 856 bytes
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: 26.6 GiB - 28 594 405 376 bytes
Chronicles of Riddick: 26.3 GiB - 28 246 081 536
Constantine: 21.9 GiB - 23 585 423 360 bytes
Corpse Bride: 19.0 GiB - 20 497 760 256 bytes
The Dirty Dozen: 27.6 GiB - 29 692 461 056 bytes
End Of Days: 27.7 GiB - 29 766 647 808 bytes
Excalibur: 19.2 GiB - 20 639 776 768 bytes
Fast Times At Ridgemont High: 12.6 GiB - 13 579 911 168 bytes
The Fast And The Furious: 27.5 GiB - 29 612 965 888 bytes
Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas: 22.6 GiB - 24 271 781 888 bytes
The Frighteners: 25.7GiB - 27 640 059 904 bytes (Documentary 7.62 GiB, Main Feature 17.1 GiB)
The Fugitive: 18.2 GiB - 19 560 988 672 bytes
Grand Prix: 22.3 GiB - 23 962 320 896 bytes
Happy Feet: 14.8 GiB - 15 912 293 191 bytes
Happy Gilmore: 15.1 GiB - 16 233 070 592 bytes
The Italian Job: 24.1 GiB - 25 893 535 744 bytes
Jarhead: 24.7 GiB - 26 563 248 128 bytes.
King Kong: 27.4 GiB - 29 482 090 496 bytes
The Last Samurai: 27.3 GiB - 29 348 200 448 bytes
The Manchurian Candidate: 27.0 GiB - 29 061 021 696 bytes
Mission Impossible: III Disk 1: 26.7 GiB - 28 771 549 184 bytes
Mission Impossible: III Disk 2: 22.6 GiB - 24 372 641 792 bytes
Pitch Black: 21.3 GiB - 22 956 670 976 bytes
The Polar Express: 13.0 GiB - 14 009 499 648 bytes
Ray: 27.0 GiB - 29 091 430 400 bytes
Seabiscuit: 25.3 GiB - 27 192 066 048 bytes
The Searchers: 27.8 GiB - 29 869 342 720 bytes
Serenity: 19.6 GiB - 21 070 675 968 bytes
Spartacus: 27.6 GiB - 29 655 302 144 bytes
Swordfish: 18.4 GiB - 19 812 646 912 bytes
The Thing: 25.6 GiB - 27 549 171 712 bytes
Tomb Raider: 26.0 GiB - 27 938 652 160 bytes
Training Day: 22.5 GiB - 24 214 634 496 bytes
Troy: 22.6 GB - 24 311 234 560 bytes
U2 - Rattle & Hum: 17.2 GiB - 18 567 331 840 bytes
U-571: 23.2 GiB - 24 999 755 766 bytes
Under Siege: 17.4 GiB - 18 735 300 608 bytes
Unforgiven: 25.7 GiB - 27 656 454 144 bytes
Van Helsing: 25.4 GiB - 27 365 212 160 bytes
We Were Soldiers: 27.1 GiB - 29 150 216 192 bytes
The smallest is Fast Times At Ridgemont High (12.6 GiB).
The biggest is The Searchers (27.8 GiB).
There are only two HD15s on the list, those being Fast Times At Ridgemont High (12.6 GiB) and The Polar Express (13.0 GiB).
The longest movie is King Kong at 3 hours and 8 minutes (27.4 GiB).
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Note that 1 GiB = 1 Gibibyte, which is 1 073 741 824 bytes (1024 x 1024 x 1024). "Gibibyte" is the same as a "Gigabyte" on a hard disk. However, the convention is different for optical disks.
For example, a 4.7 GB DVD-R only holds 4.38 GiB on your hard disk. HD15 is 15 GB = 15 Gigabytes, which by convention for optical discs is 15 000 000 000 bytes or approximately 13.97 GiB.
ie. HD15 is actually less than 14 GiB, and HD30 is less than 28 GiB.
That is why Happy Feet (14.8 GiB) is on a dual-layer HD DVD.
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Complete list so far of disc sizes reported in this thread:
12 Monkeys: 21.9 GiB - 23 532 732 416 bytes
2 Fast 2 Furious: 21.2 GiB - 22 857 646 080 bytes
The Adventures Of Robin Hood: 27.2 GB - 29 238 362 112 bytes
Apollo 13: 27.6 GiB - 29 643 898 880 bytes
Batman Begins: 24.8 GiB - 26 637 697 024 bytes
Blazing Saddles: 25.4 GiB - 27 279 753 216 bytes
Caddyshack: 19.7 GiB - 19 315 032 064 bytes
Casablanca: 22.4 GiB - 24 411 897 856 bytes
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: 26.6 GiB - 28 594 405 376 bytes
Chronicles of Riddick: 26.3 GiB - 28 246 081 536
Constantine: 21.9 GiB - 23 585 423 360 bytes
Corpse Bride: 19.0 GiB - 20 497 760 256 bytes
The Dirty Dozen: 27.6 GiB - 29 692 461 056 bytes
End Of Days: 27.7 GiB - 29 766 647 808 bytes
Excalibur: 19.2 GiB - 20 639 776 768 bytes
Fast Times At Ridgemont High: 12.6 GiB - 13 579 911 168 bytes
The Fast And The Furious: 27.5 GiB - 29 612 965 888 bytes
Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas: 22.6 GiB - 24 271 781 888 bytes
The Frighteners: 25.7GiB - 27 640 059 904 bytes (Documentary 7.62 GiB, Main Feature 17.1 GiB)
The Fugitive: 18.2 GiB - 19 560 988 672 bytes
Grand Prix: 22.3 GiB - 23 962 320 896 bytes
Happy Feet: 14.8 GiB - 15 912 293 191 bytes
Happy Gilmore: 15.1 GiB - 16 233 070 592 bytes
The Italian Job: 24.1 GiB - 25 893 535 744 bytes
Jarhead: 24.7 GiB - 26 563 248 128 bytes.
King Kong: 27.4 GiB - 29 482 090 496 bytes
The Last Samurai: 27.3 GiB - 29 348 200 448 bytes
The Manchurian Candidate: 27.0 GiB - 29 061 021 696 bytes
Mission Impossible: III Disk 1: 26.7 GiB - 28 771 549 184 bytes
Mission Impossible: III Disk 2: 22.6 GiB - 24 372 641 792 bytes
Pitch Black: 21.3 GiB - 22 956 670 976 bytes
The Polar Express: 13.0 GiB - 14 009 499 648 bytes
Ray: 27.0 GiB - 29 091 430 400 bytes
Seabiscuit: 25.3 GiB - 27 192 066 048 bytes
The Searchers: 27.8 GiB - 29 869 342 720 bytes
Serenity: 19.6 GiB - 21 070 675 968 bytes
Spartacus: 27.6 GiB - 29 655 302 144 bytes
Swordfish: 18.4 GiB - 19 812 646 912 bytes
The Thing: 25.6 GiB - 27 549 171 712 bytes
Tomb Raider: 26.0 GiB - 27 938 652 160 bytes
Training Day: 22.5 GiB - 24 214 634 496 bytes
Troy: 22.6 GB - 24 311 234 560 bytes
U2 - Rattle & Hum: 17.2 GiB - 18 567 331 840 bytes
U-571: 23.2 GiB - 24 999 755 766 bytes
Under Siege: 17.4 GiB - 18 735 300 608 bytes
Unforgiven: 25.7 GiB - 27 656 454 144 bytes
Van Helsing: 25.4 GiB - 27 365 212 160 bytes
We Were Soldiers: 27.1 GiB - 29 150 216 192 bytes
The smallest is Fast Times At Ridgemont High (12.6 GiB).
The biggest is The Searchers (27.8 GiB).
There are only two HD15s on the list, those being Fast Times At Ridgemont High (12.6 GiB) and The Polar Express (13.0 GiB).
The longest movie is King Kong at 3 hours and 8 minutes (27.4 GiB).
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Note that 1 GiB = 1 Gibibyte, which is 1 073 741 824 bytes (1024 x 1024 x 1024). "Gibibyte" is the same as a "Gigabyte" on a hard disk. However, the convention is different for optical disks.
For example, a 4.7 GB DVD-R only holds 4.38 GiB on your hard disk. HD15 is 15 GB = 15 Gigabytes, which by convention for optical discs is 15 000 000 000 bytes or approximately 13.97 GiB.
ie. HD15 is actually less than 14 GiB, and HD30 is less than 28 GiB.
That is why Happy Feet (14.8 GiB) is on a dual-layer HD DVD.