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Warner Bros., which used to release movies in both formats prior to June 1, 2007, often used the same encode (with VC-1 codec) for both Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD, with identical results. In contrast, Paramount used different encodings: initially MPEG-2 for early Blu-ray Disc releases, VC-1 for early HD DVD releases, and eventually AVC for both ...
An optical disc is designed to support one of three recording types: read-only (such as CD and CD-ROM), recordable (write-once, like CD-R), or re-recordable (rewritable, like CD-RW). Write-once optical discs commonly have an organic dye (may also be a ( phthalocyanine ) azo dye , mainly used by Verbatim , or an oxonol dye, used by Fujifilm [ 4 ...
For comparison with analogue media, the pitch of the spiral of a 240-groove-per-inch long-playing record and a Laserdisc are 106 μm (66 times the CD track pitch) and 4.6 μm (2.9 times), respectively. The tip of a 0.7-mil stylus has a diameter of 18 μm (11 times that of the CD laser spot). Data is from , , and .
DVD+RW: rewriteable DVD defined by DVD+RW Alliance; DVD-RAM rewriteable, capable of random write access, not generally format-compatible with DVD; Blu-ray Disc: DVD successor, capable of high-definition video [1] BD-R: WORM Blu-ray Disc by the Blu-ray Disc Association; BD-RE: rewriteable BD; HD DVD: failed HD format defined by the DVD Forum [2]
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Writing a DVD at 1× (1 385 000 bytes per second) [5] is approximately 9 times faster than writing a CD at 1× (153 600 bytes per second). [6] However, the actual speeds depend on the type of data being written to the disc. [6] For Blu-ray discs, 1× speed is defined as 36 megabits per second (Mbit/s), which is equal to 4.5 megabytes per second ...
Download as PDF; Printable version ... Size comparison: a 12 cm DVD+RW and a 19 cm pencil ... at 18× or 20×, have 18 or 20 times that speed. For CD drives, 1× ...
CD-i Bridge [18] - a bridge format between CD-ROM XA and the Green Book CD-i, which is the base format for Video CDs, Super Video CDs and Photo CDs. VCD ( Video ) – a standard jointly developed and published by JVC, Matsushita, Philips and Sony.