| Below is a list of articles with the most recent ones listed first. |
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The Hype and Noise about DVD by MDofPC |
Topic: DVD |
| Originally, DVD stood for Digital Video Disc. Then, in recognition of that fact that the silver platters could also be used to store audio and computer data, it became Digital Versatile Disc. As that’s pretty clumsy, it’s now evolved to the stage where DVD doesn’t really stand for anything |
| Published: Friday 01 May, 2009 |
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DVD - part 1 by MDofPC |
Topic: DVD |
| After a lifespan of ten years, during which time the capacity of hard disks increased a hundred-fold, the CD-ROM finally got the facelift it required to take it into the next century when a standard for DVD, initially called digital video disc but eventually known as digital versatile disc, was fina... |
| Published: Saturday 28 April, 2007 |
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DVD - part 10 by MDofPC |
Topic: DVD |
| It's interesting to note that the first optical storage medium made available to the public was the now-familiar audio CD. Since then, the fields of digital audio and digital data have been intertwined in a symbiotic relationship, with one industry making use of the other's technology to their mutua... |
| Published: Saturday 28 April, 2007 |
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DVD - part 11 by MDofPC |
Topic: DVD |
| There are five recordable versions of DVD: DVD-R for General, DVD-R for Authoring, DVD-RAM, DVD-RW, and, DVD+RW. All writable DVD formats include a set of specifications that define a media's physical traits and characteristics. |
| Published: Saturday 28 April, 2007 |
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DVD - part 12 by MDofPC |
Topic: DVD |
| Similar in concept to CD-R, DVD-R (or, DVD-Recordable) is a write-once medium that can contain any type of information normally stored on mass produced DVD discs - video, audio, images, data files, multimedia programs, and so on. |
| Published: Saturday 28 April, 2007 |
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DVD - part 13 by MDofPC |
Topic: DVD |
| Rewritable DVD-ROM drives, or DVD-RAM, employs phase-change technology with some MO features mixed in rather than the pure optical technology of CD and DVD discs and has its roots in the PD optical disc system. |
| Published: Saturday 28 April, 2007 |
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DVD - part 14 by MDofPC |
Topic: DVD |
| Formerly known as DVD-R/W - and also briefly as DVD-ER - DVD-RW is Pioneer's evolutionary development of existing CD-RW/DVD-R technology that became available at the end of 1999. From the outset, the overriding design objective was to produce a format that merged effortlessly with the existing DVD e... |
| Published: Saturday 28 April, 2007 |
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DVD - part 15 by MDofPC |
Topic: DVD |
| Consistent with the bickering that had dogged DVD since its inception, the DVD-RAM specification was a compromise between two different proposals by the principal protagonists - the Hitachi, Matsushita Electric and Toshiba grouping and the Sony/Philips alliance - but with primary reliance on that pu... |
| Published: Saturday 28 April, 2007 |
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DVD - part 16 by MDofPC |
Topic: DVD |
| The first DVD+RW drives had no capability to write to write-once DVD media. However, in early 2002 Verbatim became the first media maker to offer DVD+RW technology in both the ReWritable and Write-once formats. |
| Published: Saturday 28 April, 2007 |
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DVD - part 17 by MDofPC |
Topic: DVD |
| By the late-1990s the blue laser represented the best chance that optical storage technology had for achieving a significant increase in capacity over the coming decade. The laser is critical to development because the wavelength of the drive's laser light limits the size of the pit that can be read... |
| Published: Saturday 28 April, 2007 |
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