What Is A DVD?

Snake River Books is the leader in high technology fly fishing and fly tying media. DVD is the new generation of optical disc storage technology. DVD is essentially a bigger, faster CD that can hold cinema-like video, better-than-CD audio, still photos, and computer data. DVD aims to encompass home entertainment, computers, and business information with a single digital format. It has replaced laserdisc, is well on the way to replacing videotape and video game cartridges, and could eventually replace audio CD and CD-ROM. DVD has widespread support from all major electronics companies, all major computer hardware companies and all major movie and music studios. With this unprecedented support, DVD became the most successful consumer electronics product of all time in less than three years of its introduction. In 2003, six years after introduction, there were over 250 million DVD playback devices worldwide, counting DVD players, DVD PCs, and DVD game consoles. This was more than half ...  more

DVD is an optical disc storage technology. DVD is bigger and faster than CD (and CD ROM) and its data storage can hold cinema quality audio and video, images, and computer file data. DVD encompasses home entertainment, computers, and business information in a single digital format. DVD has replaced laserdisc and should eventually replace videotape, audio CD and CD-ROM.  more

DVD (also known as "Digital Versatile Disc") is an optical disc storage media format that can be used for data storage, including movies with high video and sound quality. DVDs resemble Compact Discs because their diameter is the same (120 mm or 4.72 inches, or occasionally 80 mm or 3.15 inches), but they are encoded in a different format and at a much higher density.  more

A DVD is a disc that, like a CD, can store data. A CD holds 700 megabytes of data, and a DVD holds 4.7 gigabytes... about 6X more storage capacity. When storing your images on a DVD, we are only storing the JPEG or TIFF files on the disc.  more

DVD stands for Digital Video Disc Or Digital Versatile Disc. A DVD is an optical disc encoded with video and/or data and has the same appearance and dimensions of a CD but holds from 7 to 26 times more information.  more

A DVD is very similar to a CD, but it has a much larger data capacity. A standard DVD holds about seven times more data than a CD does. This huge capacity means that a DVD has enough room to store a full-length, MPEG-2-encoded movie, as well as a lot of other information. Here are the typical contents of a DVD movie: - Up to 133 minutes of high-resolution video - Soundtrack with up to eight languages using 5.  more

DVD is the abbreviation for Digital Versatile Disc. A DVD is an optical disc which is molded from polycarbonate and has one or more layers of information. This is accomplished by molding two separate discs and bonding them together to create one disc. In addition, one or more reflective coatings are deposited which allow the player to read back the multiple layers of information. Because the data is compressed, it has a much greater storage capacity than a standard compact disc. DVD’s are also Read-only which means that the data has been recorded onto them; they can only be read or played and are not capable of recording.  more