DVD Burners
DVD's have evolved throughout the years, find out which DVD burner
will work for you.
by Kevin Healy
March 01, 2007
The DVD (Digital Video Disc) was first released in Japan in
1998, and its been close to a decade since then and the price of
DVD players and DVD writers has dropped dramatically, and are now
finally affordable to the average consumer.
With the evolution of technology we have now spawned a variety
of DVD formats to choose from. The music and movie industry have
a great quality technology to use at there disposal, and so do you,
with a now affordable DVD burner for your home computer.
A major problem that has plagued man for a long time is being able
to properly archive large amounts of data. With DVD's and their
large storage capacities, have allowed for very easy archiving of
massive amounts of data, in a very condensed size. There are bigger
solutions available like archiving data on hard drives for information
that is too large to fit on a DVD, but for the most part digital
video discs are great to store your photos, music, and video collections
on.
DVD Formats
There are a number of different types of DVD formats to watch out
for, DVD's hold either 4.7 GB or 9 GB depending on on whether it
is a single or double sided DVD, and the newest technology "HD
DVD" which can hold up to 30 GB. As far as the formats go Sony,
Phillips, and Hewlett Packard use DVD+R or DVD+RW, and Apple, Panasonic,
Toshiba, Hitachi, Samsung and Sharp use DVD-R or DVD-RW. If labeled
with just an "R" than the disc can only be recorded once. If labeled
"RW" the disc is re-writeable.
DVD's in the Music Industry
The music industry has benefited from DVD's by offering customers
with music videos from their favorite artists, and better quality
sound. Although these DVD's can still be copied it is more difficult
to share the files from them over the net because of the large file
sizes. So keep-up with the technology boom and get your hands on a
DVD burner, they are affordable, worth every penny and more.
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