What is DVD?

Friday, January 6th, 2012

DVD:

DVD means “digital versatile disc” or “digital video disc“. It is an optical storage disc mainly used for video, audio and computer date storage. With the same size as CD, most DVDs can store more than six times data and run much faster than CDs do. As well, DVD has high quality digital video, audio, picture and other sort information. Standard DVD use red light laser in the wavelength of 650 nm.

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DVD-ROM, means Read Only Memory, the data stored on it can only be read but not written. It is the basic format that data be held.

DVD-R and DVD+R, only can record data one time, the other functions are as DVD-ROM.

DVD-RW, DVD+RW and DVD-RAM, this variation can record, erase and written data many times.

Applications

DVD application formats include DVD-Video, DVD-Video Recording (DVD-VR), DVD+RW Video Recording (DVD+VR), DVD-Audio Recording (DVD-AR), DVD-Audio (DVD-A), and Super Audio CD (SACD). DVD-Video and DVD-Audio discs respectively refer to properly formatted and structured video and audio content. Other types of DVDs, including those with video content, may be referred to as DVD-Data discs. There are also special application formats designed for game consoles such as Sony PlayStation 2 and Microsoft Xbox.

DVD achieves computers, business and home entertainment with just a single digital format. Many CD-ROM applications, such as video tape, laser disc and many video game cartridge formats. DVD has widely supported from all major electronics companies, computer hardware companies, and movie and music studios. This unprecedented support makes DVD become the most successful consumer electronic product in history in only less than three years introduction. The years after DVD launch in the market, in 2007, there have been more than one billion DVD devices all of the world, like DVD PCs, DVD players, and DVD game consoles.

 

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Poor quality of DVD disc will affect the data inside it?

Wednesday, November 10th, 2010

Test Example:
Verbatim DVD-R plain global
Drive: PIONEER DVD-ROM DVD-128P
Firmware: 1.00
Disc: DVD-R (0 @ P!)
The chosen speed: 8 X
PI errors
Maximum: 251
Average : 87.61
Total: 1537116
PI failures

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Non-standard special DVD formats

Monday, October 11th, 2010

Besides standard DVD format, there are some noe-standard DVD formats, including: DVD-ISO, DVD-MP3, DVD-VCD, DVD-SVCD, miniDVD / cDVD.

DVD-ISO

is MPEG ,MPG, VOB files burned on a DVD without any DVD Authoring(making the vob,ifo files) but very few standalone DVD Players supports it because most Players verify DVD as DVD-Video only. Check our DVD Players list for compatibility.

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DVD General Knowledge

Wednesday, April 28th, 2010

DVD in English full name is Digital Video Disk, which uses MPEG2 compression technology to store images. Some people also say DVD is Digital Versatile Disk, is a digital versatile disc, which combines computer technology, optics and video recording technology as a whole, the purpose is to satisfy people’s large storage capacity needs, the demand for high-performance storage media. DVD disc not only has been widely used in audio / video field, but also leading publishing, broadcasting, communications, WWW and other industries. It was used widely, it can set to be seen in the five specifications:

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Features of DVD discs

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010

A, Large capacity (DVD Copy)
CD and DVD discs and VCD discs are very similar in diameter to 80 or 120mm, thickness 1.2mm, but in fact their very different. DVD can be divided into single layer, single-sided double-layer, double-sided single layer and double-double of four physical structure. Single-sided single layer DVD have a capacity of 4.7GB, while the double-double of the DVD capacity up to 17GB (about 26 times the CD).

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What is the Difference between D5/D9/D10/D18/DVD+R/DVD+RW and other DVD discs?

Sunday, March 28th, 2010

Question has been asked about what is the difference between DVD-5 and DVD-9, DVD+R and DVD RW, etc. Generally speaking, there are 4 different DVD Disc in market now. The most commonly used Disc to save video movies is D9 and D5. And the size of them can be kind of confusing for users.

DVD-5 (Single Side Single Layer)
D5 holds around 4 700 000 000 bytes and that is 4.37 computer GB where 1 kbyte is 1024 bytes* . DVD+R/DVD+RW and DVD-R/DVD-RW support this format. This is the most common DVD Media, often called 4.7 GB Media. A DVD-5 disc will hold nominally 133 minutes of high quality MPEG-2 encoded video, together with three surround-sound audio channels and four subtitle channels. (Without video compression one DVD-5 disc would hold only about 3 minutes of video).

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Ultra DVD Introduce

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

About UltraDVD

UltraDVD is a powerful and very easy to use DVD player software. It can play DVD, VCD or MPEG/MPG movies and almost all video or audio multimedia files.

UltraDVD is the only one that support digital zoom your DVD movie with 1/8 small zoom window in the world! It’s extremely easy to use but powerful enough for experts.

And it is also a MPEG/AVI/VCD/VIDEO/AUDIO/MPG player software. Just click one button to play your movie and you can set the size of playing window – full screen or a small window just as your like. It will monitor your DVD or CDROM drive and will automatically play a movie on the disc.