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sPlOrYgOn · **Re: DVD Capacity -** 16-08-2004

wrong.. it's actually the HDD company that is wrong.. well they were wrong until the last few years.. now windows is wrong..
IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) decided to change the confusion in people new to computers thinking that they lost a few megs..
a kilobyte was actually 1024 bytes
and a megabyte was 1024 kilobytes.. and so on..
but the HDD manufacturers instead counted a kilobyte as 1000 bytes and a Megabyte as 1000 kilobytes which is actually correct since kilo means 10^3 and Mega means 10^6..
so IEEE decides to stop the confusion and now they have renamed the 1024 bytes to kibibyte instead of kilobyte and 1024 kibibytes is now a Mebibyte and 1024 Mebibytes is now Gibibytes.
so now windows is wrong because they are still saying 1024 Megabytes is 1 Gigabyte which should now be Mebibyte and Gibibyte.
their abbreviations are:
kiB for kibiByte.
MiB for MebiByte.
GiB for GibiByte.
TiB for TebiByte.
PiB for PebiByte.
but I do not think this change is widely accepted.. I've only seen Bittorrent clients with this new labeling...

but I do not know why nero and alcohol count the number of Mebibytes differently..

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sPlOrYgOn <-- He did it. Status: Offline Posts: 1,558 Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Los Angeles, California, USA, North America, Earth, Solar System, Milky Way.	Re: DVD Capacity - 16-08-2004 wrong.. it's actually the HDD company that is wrong.. well they were wrong until the last few years.. now windows is wrong.. IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) decided to change the confusion in people new to computers thinking that they lost a few megs.. a kilobyte was actually 1024 bytes and a megabyte was 1024 kilobytes.. and so on.. but the HDD manufacturers instead counted a kilobyte as 1000 bytes and a Megabyte as 1000 kilobytes which is actually correct since kilo means 10^3 and Mega means 10^6.. so IEEE decides to stop the confusion and now they have renamed the 1024 bytes to kibibyte instead of kilobyte and 1024 kibibytes is now a Mebibyte and 1024 Mebibytes is now Gibibytes. so now windows is wrong because they are still saying 1024 Megabytes is 1 Gigabyte which should now be Mebibyte and Gibibyte. their abbreviations are: kiB for kibiByte. MiB for MebiByte. GiB for GibiByte. TiB for TebiByte. PiB for PebiByte. but I do not think this change is widely accepted.. I've only seen Bittorrent clients with this new labeling... but I do not know why nero and alcohol count the number of Mebibytes differently.. splorygon Last edited by sPlOrYgOn; 16-08-2004 at 00:46..