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Why there are only 4.38GB at maximum capacity instead of 4.7 GB DVD stated?

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Why there are only 4.38GB at maximum capacity instead of 4.7 GB DVD stated?

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There is a industry inconsistence. The “4.7 GB” is actually 4.7 billion bytes. But on a computer, it takes 1,048,576 bytes or 1024 Kbytes, not merely 1000 KB, to make up a full MB.

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There is a industry inconsistence. The “4.7 GB” is actually 4.7 billion bytes.

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