.: DVD Media
All that you need about DVD+R / DVD-R / DVD+RW DVD-RW / DVD-RAM /HD DVD
andBlue Ray

Which DVD Media or format I need to use? You can find that question all over Internet forums. DVDs since 1994 are the new era to play movies and now storage data, called Digital Versatile Discs, but one problem that we can find at the moment of use our DVD burners, players, recorders or DVD-ROMs, its all the types of DVD media on market.

DVD Media or simple DVDs are able to hold video, data, multimedia, games and audio applications. The high quality of video and audio has helped DVD Video to grow very fast that other consumer electronics formats around the world.

DVD±R, DVD±RW and DVD-RAM are the most popular DVD media formats and they are different between them, also has many applications on DVD burners, players, recorders and DVD-ROMs. They are recordable and re-writable formats that now being extensively used on PCs for computer backup, DVD movies playback, storage data, and in stadlone products such as video recorders and camcorders.

In about 10 years DVD media change very fast, like capacity of storage, which means that you can hold more time of video and data. Also now we can find DVDs Dual Layer formats and become more and more accessible like the new HD-DVD and Blu-Ray formats.

DVD-R, DVD-RW and DVD-RAM are supported by the DVD Forum. The DVD-R discs use a similar technology as CD-Rs but with a different dye and smaller geometries. Before this DVD format had a capacity of 3.95 GB but current versions offer 4.7 GB with a Dual Layer (DL) version (DVD-R DL) offering 8.5GB per disc.

DVD+R discs are not supported by DVD Forum, but are very similar to DVD-R media. They are developed by Philips and Sony as an extension of the DVD+RW format supported by DVD+RW Alliance.

The DVD-RW and DVD+R are similar to the DVD Media that we talking before, but this formats are the two official re-writable DVD Media. The first one offer 4.7GB capacity per side and they are designed to be compatible with existing players and drivers, and are able to recordable over 1000 time.

In other way the DVD+RW is a rewritable forma introduced on 2001 by the DVD+RW Alliance. This DVD media has a capacity of 4.7 GB and do not need a cartridge like DVD-RAMs, and they offer 1000 re-writers.

No we offer on details reviews and information about the variety of DVD Media that you can find on market today:

HD-DVD, High-density Digital Versatile Disc
HD-DVD is set to take over in the coming years as the most popular form of disc. Similar to the quality used in major movies but with the ease and affordability you need.

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