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To go Dual Layer or Stay Single Layer

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I’ve been putting Upscales of Deep Space Nine and Voyager on Blu-ray. I am almost done with Deep Space Nine, and I put them on Dual Layer discs, and I get 4-5 episodes per disc, 3hrs and 45 minutes with an average of 20mb/s bitrate. Each Season comes out to 6 discs. not too shabby.

Here is the issue, each Dual Layer Blu-ray Disc averages at $1.70 per disc. No matter what brand I look at, they are around $1.70 a disc. Single Layer discs average out at 40 cents a disc, get a similar bitrate with 2-3 episodes.

Is it worth going with dual layers for Box sets aside from reducing disc swapping? Going Single layer would only increase disc count to 9 discs a season rather than 6. What are some of the benefits of doing dual layer?

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I guess it also depends on what size of ‘box set’ you want? How it looks on your shelf or display along with other media etc?

I’m not up to date on the case covers - though there used to a good range of cases what could hold 6 discs - yet not so much option when it came to 9-disc cases.

^ If possible get a case with a [USB flash drive ‘tab’ in it](A Star Wars USB Drive - Box, Case, Tape, Tin, Frame, Figure & Cover Thread…](https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/A-Star-Wars-USB-Drive-_Box-Case-Tape-Tin-Frame-Figure-and-Cover_-Thread/id/53879) - I found them to be most useful over the years when storing content together (especially if any of the discs fail over time).
 

Please post up your finished ‘box set’ when complete - would be cool to see.

Good luck with it, mate. 👍
 

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