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History
Specifications
DVD drives and players
Overview
Key facts & relationships
High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.
- Capacity
- 4.7 GB (1 side, 1 layer) · 8.5 GB (1 side, 2 layers) · 9.4 GB (2 sides, 1 layer) · 17.08 GB (2 sides, 2 layers)
- Developed by
- Sony · Panasonic · Philips · Toshiba
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 120 mm (4.7 in) · Thickness: 1.2 mm (0.047 in)
- Extended from
- LaserDisc Compact disc
- Extended to
- DVD+RW · DVD-RAM · HD DVD · Blu-ray
- Media type
- Optical disc
Topics to explore
A structured outline of related entities, concepts and subtopics. Open any item to build a new map centered on it.Browse the full topic structure. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.
Overview
- Digital Digital media
- Optical disc
- Data storage
- Japan
- Digital data
- DVD players DVD player
- Compact discs Compact disc
- GB Gigabyte
- Molding machines Injection molding machine
- Recordable DVD
- DVD-R
- DVD+R
- DVD recorder Optical disc drive
- DVD-RW
- DVD+RW
- DVD-RAM
- DVD-Video
- DVD-Audio
- AVCHD
- High definition High-definition video
- Camcorders Camcorder
Etymology
History
- CD Video
- Video CD
- Compact Disc
- Philips
- Sony
- CD-i
- Time Warner
- Matsushita Electric
- Hitachi Hitachi, Ltd.
- Mitsubishi Electric
- Pioneer Pioneer Corporation
- Thomson Thomson SA
- JVC
- Ad hoc
- Compaq
- Hewlett-Packard
- Lou Gerstner
- EFMPlus
- Kees Schouhamer Immink
- GiB Gibibyte
- Optical Storage Technology Association
- Universal Disk Format
- Samsung
- Music video
- Warner Home Video
- Warner Bros.
- MGM Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- New Line New Line Cinema
- Twister Twister (1996 film)
- Street date
Specifications
- DVD-VR
- Birefringence
- ISO International Organization for Standardization
- European Computer Manufacturers Association
- DVD+RW Alliance
- DVD+RW DL
- Non-disclosure agreement
- National Diet Library
- LaserDisc
- Keep cases Keep case
- Toy Story
- Data buffers Data buffer
- Opposite Track Path
DVD recordable and rewritable
- CSS Content Scramble System
- DVD-R DL
- DVD+R DL
- Mitsubishi Kagaku Media
Capacity
DVD drives and players
- KB Kilobyte
- KiB Kibibyte
- RPM Rotations per minute
- Constant angular velocity
- Constant linear velocity
- Partial constant angular velocity
- Zoned Constant Linear Velocity
- Dual layer DVD
- Data integrity
- Deteriorating media Disc rot
- Badblocks
DVD-Video
- 69th Academy Awards
- MPEG Moving Picture Experts Group
- Region codes DVD region code
- Macrovision Analog Protection System
- User operation prohibition
Successors and decline
- HD DVD
- Blu-ray Disc Blu-ray
- Format war
- 2006–2008 High-definition optical disc format war
- Video on demand
- Star Trek: The Original Series
- Star Trek: The Next Generation
- Ultra HD Blu-ray
- RedBox
Longevity
- NIST
- LoC Library of Congress
- Accelerated life testing
Advanced semantic analysis
Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.
Map overview Semantic statistics
Number of nodes, edges, triples, density and central hubs. Use it to gauge the size and connectivity of the map.DVD
How this topic connects Entity context
Quick relationship hints grouped by predicate. Useful for spotting recurring semantic connections around the current entity.See the strongest relationship patterns around the current topic before diving into the raw triples.
DVD
Top relations
Important terminology Word statistics
Frequent words and multi-word phrases across the lead, headings, infobox and body. Useful for terminology coverage.Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.
Important terminology
discs disc video data dvds format storage optical standard also digital gb read first using dual-layer computer dvd-r two blu-ray
Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DVD | Capacity | 4.7 GB (1 side, 1 layer) | 1.00 | infobox |
| DVD | Capacity | 8.5 GB (1 side, 2 layers) | 1.00 | infobox |
| DVD | Capacity | 9.4 GB (2 sides, 1 layer) | 1.00 | infobox |
| DVD | Capacity | 17.08 GB (2 sides, 2 layers) | 1.00 | infobox |
| DVD | Developed by | Sony | 1.00 | infobox |
| DVD | Developed by | Panasonic | 1.00 | infobox |
| DVD | Developed by | Philips | 1.00 | infobox |
| DVD | Developed by | Toshiba | 1.00 | infobox |
| DVD | Dimensions | Diameter: 120 mm (4.7 in) | 1.00 | infobox |
| DVD | Dimensions | Thickness: 1.2 mm (0.047 in) | 1.00 | infobox |
| DVD | Extended from | LaserDisc Compact disc | 1.00 | infobox |
| DVD | Extended to | DVD+RW | 1.00 | infobox |
| DVD | Extended to | DVD-RAM | 1.00 | infobox |
| DVD | Extended to | HD DVD | 1.00 | infobox |
| DVD | Extended to | Blu-ray | 1.00 | infobox |
| DVD | Media type | Optical disc | 1.00 | infobox |
| DVD | Read mechanism | 650 nm laser diode, 10.5 Mbit/s (1×) | 1.00 | infobox |
| DVD | Released | JP: November 1, 1996 (1996-11-01) | 1.00 | infobox |
| DVD | Released | Asia/CIS: January 1997 (1997-01) | 1.00 | infobox |
| DVD | Released | US: March 24, 1997 (1997-03-24) | 1.00 | infobox |
| DVD | Released | UK: June 1997 (1997-06) | 1.00 | infobox |
| DVD | Released | EU: March 1998 (1998-03) | 1.00 | infobox |
| DVD | Released | AUS/NZ: February 1999 (1999-02) | 1.00 | infobox |
| DVD | Standard | DVD Forum's DVD Books | 1.00 | infobox |
| DVD | Standard | DVD+RW Alliance specifications | 1.00 | infobox |
| DVD | Usage | Home video, Computer data storage | 1.00 | infobox |
| DVD | Weight | 16 g (0.56 oz) | 1.00 | infobox |
| DVD | Write mechanism | 650 nm laser diode, 10.5 Mbit/s (1×) | 1.00 | infobox |
Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods
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Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges
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