What is DVD?

DVD (Digital Versatile Disk) is the new type of CD that everyone in the Computer and Multimedia Industry is talking about, even though DVD players and DVD disks have just been introduced on the consumer market and are not widely used yet.

DVD storage capacity (17 Gbyte) is much higher than CD-ROM (600 Mbyte) and DVD can deliver the data at a higher rate than CD-ROM. With the help of MPEG and Dolby compression technologies, a DVD disk can hold hours of high quality Audio-Visual contents. DVD is predicted to be the unavoidable replacement for the old VCR technology. DVD is seen as the ideal replacement support for interactive multimedia applications currently based on the CD-ROM technology.