Hey, I appreciate all the attention but many of you are getting it all wrong. I'm not trying to save a buck. I'm just trying to upgrade to platinum. I thought gold would do what I want. I am a television producer and have many multipart programs I want to duplicate for my files. Gold was not working when I had 3 or 4 dual layer programs on a tape or disc. Platinum would do it, putting 2 or 3 programs on a disk and putting the rest on a second disc. I did this during the test drive. In fact, I got better service during the test drive than now. The web sales site said you could do this with gold. It does not work properly with multi-layet discs and even when they are not dual later when you play them on the dvd players, when you hit the launch mode to play your show, it goes no where. As far as internet service. I have a very fast dsl service. They report i'm absolutely sweaky clean, no one spamming me or whatever you call it, and NOTHING is being blocked. I'll just take the files to a studio and have them burn it. Seems the least stressful way to deal with this. Thanks