Everything About DVD-R And Other Types Of DVDs
April 2nd, 2011 | Author: admin
DVD or Digital Versatile Disk is now the preferred movie and data storage unit. Big names in Electronics business Philips, Sony and Toshiba introduced it in 1995. And quickly it replaced the CD and VHS technology as it is capable to save more than seven times the data that may be stored in a CD. There are several variations of DVD. Mostly what we see at present are DVD-R and DVD+R types. However, some other types with additional storage capacity like HD-DVD and Blue Ray DVD are arriving in the market.
When purchasing you may often get confused about what to purchase DVD-R or other types of DVDs. There are a number of criteria which you will have to consider before purchasing one.
First of all, you should check what categories of DVD your DVD burner or player can run. Some DVD players and burners only support DVD-R types whereas some supports DVD+R. In addition there are some players which support multiple types of DVDs.
DVD-R and DVD+R type DVDs can only be burned one time. Both have the capacity of 4.7 Gigabytes. But, DVD-R is supported by most of the players and in addition is supported by DVD forum (The group of all hardware and software providers related with DVDs).
In case you need to use DVD as temporary data storing unit, you can purchase rewritable ones. A few DVD types that might be burned multiple times are DVD-RW, DVD+RW and DVD-RAM.
New DVDs with large data storing capacity are coming in to the market and currently available types are Blue Ray DVDs and HD-DVD (Blue ray 50 gigabytes and HD 30 gigabytes). But are yet to build their reputation in the market as most of the people are happy with the current -R and +R formats.
All kinds of DVDs can store data for you but all are not supported by the DVD burners and players. So, before you purchase a DVD, read the manual of your DVD burner or player or get in touch with the vendor to know what types are supported.
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