Saturday 26 March 2011

DVD-R Or Other Types Of DVDs, What type You Should Purchase

By John Mackenzie


DVD, the shortened term of Digital Versatile Disk is extremely popular today when it comes to convenient movie and data storage. Big names in Electronics business Philips, Sony and Toshiba introduced it in 1995. And shortly it replaced the CD and VHS technology as it is capable to store up more than seven times the data that can be contained in a CD. Since 1995, many variations of DVD have been developed. But the 2 major variations are DVD-R and DVD+R. But additional models are arriving like HD-DVD and Blue Ray DVD.

When purchasing you can often get puzzled about what to purchase DVD-R, DVD+R or other types. There are a couple of things which you should consider before purchasing one.

To start with, check your DVD player or burner to find out what categories of DVD it supports. Some just supports DVD-R and some just supports DVD+R and some are good for DVD-R and other types of DVDs as well.

DVD+R and DVD-R type DVDs can only be burned just once. Both have the capacity of 4.7 Gigabytes. But, DVD forum (The consortium of all software and hardware companies related with DVDs) supports the DVD-R category and it's also supported by the majority of the players and burners.

In case you wish to use the DVD several times for data storage, you should buy a rewritable disk. DVD-RAM, DVD+RW and DVD-RW are capable of recording and erasing data multiple times.

New technology like Blue Ray DVDs and HD-DVD are arriving that can store large sum of data (HD 30 gigabytes and blue ray 50 gigabytes). But, most of the people seem to be happy with the current storage capacity of the DVD+R and DVD-R types and those are yet to build their reputation in the market.

All types of DVDs can store data for you but all are not supported by the DVD burners and players. Therefore, before you purchase a DVD, check the manual of the DVD burner or player or contact the vendor to know what types are supported.




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