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DVD

Digital versatile disk, digital video disk Informatics An optical disk capable of storing ≥ 4 GB of audiovisual data. Cf CD.

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Record directly from your TV on to a DVD disc at the touch of a button with this unit ( the cheapest on the market with this function.

Best of both whirls

* The burner and media manufacturers will be able to double the capacity of the recordable DVD discs giving us 8.5GB of capacity on a single side (currently to get more than 4.7GB on a disc double-sided media was used)

DVD burners at ceatec: inside looking out

DVD discs are the same physical size as a CD-R, but can hold 4.7GB, or even 9.4GB, compared to the 700MB maximum that a CD-R holds.

Storage and promotion: there are more choices in optical drives. (Office Technology)

And those who do want the options can have them, since Divx players also play DVD discs.

DIVX AIMS TO THRIVE ON `LESS IS MORE'

Japan supplies 70-80% of blu-ray DVD discs used worldwide, with Sony the largest supplier of this kind.

Taiwanese disc makers to snap up orders for Blu-ray DVD after quake in Japan

But HD DVD discs cost less to produce, which meant higher profit margins.

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RECORD directly from your TV onto a DVD disc at the touch of a button with this unit -- the cheapest on the market with this function.

Testing: The best of both whirls

The direct-to-disc technology available in DVD MovieFactory 2 permits users to rapidly capture video on the fly from a TV, DVD player, VCR, DV camcorder, or other devices, and bum directly to a DVD disc, eliminating the need for hard drive storage.

Ulead Systems offers DVD editing software choices

Most of the extra material is featured on a second DVD disc, including two never-before-seen sequences involving Martin Luther King Jr.

Par pumps `Gump' DVD

The second is the DVD disc that is an emerging storage technology with considerable future potential for the long-term storage of electronic records because of its high storage capacity and high data-transfer rate.

Selecting Storage Media for Long-Term Access to Digital Records

Even better, a DVD disc has more space than your average video for what the makers call special features.

Wow Videos: It's time for a new kind of digital watch

DVD Copy Pro for Mac offers the comfort of copying both commercial encrypted DVDs and homemade DVDs directly into DVD disc or to DVD Folder, dvdmedia file or ISO file that can be played with Apple DVD Player.