
DVD is short for digital versatile disc or digital video disc. It is a type of optical media used for storing optical data. Although it has the same size as a CD, its storage capacity is much more than a CD. So, it is widely used for storing and viewing movies and to distribute software programs as they are too large to fit on a CD. DVD was co-developed by Sony, Panasonic, Philips, and Toshiba in 1995.
Types of DVDs:
DVDs can be divided into three main categories which are as follows:
- DVD-ROM (Read-Only): These types of DVDs come with media already recorded on them, such as movie dvds. As the name suggests, data on these discs cannot be erased or added, so these discs are known as a read-only or non-writable DVD.
- DVD-R (Writable): It allows you to record or write information to the DVD. However, you can write information only once as it becomes a read-only DVD once it is full.
- DVD-RW (Rewritable or Erasable): This type of discs can be erased, written, or recorded multiple times.