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Characteristics: Part 3

DVD drives provide reliable data storage and retrieval with high online capacity and performance for sequential and non-sequential data. DVD-ROM drives and DVD-capable PCs are now common in the US, Europe, and Japan, allowing playback of DVD-Video discs as well as DVD-ROM applications through MPEG-2 decoders in hardware or software. DVD began as the Digital Video Disc but is now known as the Digital Versatile Disc, providing a family of optical disc formats for read-only, recordable, and rewritable media with features including large storage capacity and compatibility across regions.

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Characteristics: Part 3

DVD drives provide reliable data storage and retrieval with high online capacity and performance for sequential and non-sequential data. DVD-ROM drives and DVD-capable PCs are now common in the US, Europe, and Japan, allowing playback of DVD-Video discs as well as DVD-ROM applications through MPEG-2 decoders in hardware or software. DVD began as the Digital Video Disc but is now known as the Digital Versatile Disc, providing a family of optical disc formats for read-only, recordable, and rewritable media with features including large storage capacity and compatibility across regions.

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Characteristics: part 3

multimedia, games and other computer applications.

• Reliable data storage and retrieval

• High on-line capacity

• High performance for both sequential and non-sequential data types

DVD-ROM drives and PCs with DVD capability are now widespread in the USA, Europe and Japan. Generally
these will also include MPEG-2 decoders either in hardware or, for high end PCs, in software. They will then be
capable of playing DVD-Video discs as well as DVD-ROM applications.

DVD Features

DVD started as the Digital Video Disc but now means Digital Versatile Disc or just DVD. It is a multi-application
family of optical disc formats for read-only, recordable and re-writable applications. The main features of the
DVD formats are:

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