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Once you've searched information about DVD on the Internet, you must have found that there are some DVD jargons you don't know what it means. If you are still troubled by the DVD glossary, then you'd better have a look at the following article. Once you've browsed this page, you may find the explanation on some commonly used DVD glossaries right here.

DVD Glossary Explanations

Here we just give out the explanation of DVD and the DVD glossary on DVD disc types.

Explanation on DVD

DVD stands for Digital Video Disc which is also known as Digital Versatile Disc. It is a kind of high density optical disc which crosses the audio, audiovisual and multimedia area. It always refers to as a home entertainment video disc. The horizontal resolution of DVD discs can be up to 530 lines or more. DVD emphasizes in its common characteristics: wide range of application, overall functions and unparalleled excellent quality.

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DVD Glossary Explanation on DVD Disc Types

DVD-ROM: A high-capacity DVD read-only format for computer. This kind of DVD disc format developed a method of storing data and file system on DVD discs.

DVD-Video: It ensured the video encoding of the film on DVD. It is now the most commonly used application of DVD. That's the reason why some people know DVD as Digital Video Disc.

DVD-Audio: DVD audio disc, which takes 24bit/192kHz as the standard in 1.0 version. There are some other music DVD discs which are produced based on the DVD-Video disc. However, they are not the same thing with the DVD-Audio. DVD-Audio lay down the high-quality audio storage format on DVD. DVD Audio can be up to eight channels, sampling frequency up to 96KHz. When it uses two channels, the sampling frequency can up to 192KHz, the sampling accuracy of 24bit so as to ensure the undistorted LPCM format recording.

DVD-R: As a member of DVD family, DVD-R is a kind of one-time recording (Write-once) and repeatedly reading DVD disc. This kind of disc has an initial capacity of 3.95 GB, which now has reached 4.7GB. And this DVD-R can be played on most DVD drives and DVD players.

DVD-RW: The disc is using phase change technology, which allows you to repeatedly erase and write data.

DVD+RW: A recordable and rewritable disc which takes the phase change technology used by CD-RW so as to read and write disk for many times. It is actually the combination of the DVD-R and DVD-RW.

DVD-RAM: A DVD format which enables you to read and write data on it without limited. It is also a computer specified DVD disc as well as DVD-ROM. Even this kind of discs feature in superior performance, it costs high.

DVD Related Glossary Explanations

CD: A digital music optical disc developed by Sony and Philips. It can 12cm diameters or 8cm diameter in size. The former is most commonly used which can provide 74 minutes of high quality music.

CD-ROM: A read-only CD which is used to store computer data.

VCD: It stands for the video discs which use the MPEG-1 compression technology. The image clarity of VCD is just as that of VHS tapes.

Ok, here are the explanations on each commonly used DVD Glossary. If you have interest in playing DVD on your Mac, you can just refer to the article how to play DVD on Mac. In the article, you may find some Mac DVD players.