- DVD
- F/A/VDigital Video Disc or Digital Versatile Disc; an optical storage medium for data or video.————————VPDigital versatile disc. Can be used to store video and other kinds of data.————————HDDigital Versatile Disk, Disk of the size of a CD, but with a storage capacity of up to 17 Gbyte. The single layer one side DVD stores up to 4.7 Gbyte, more then eight time as much as on a CD. It is an ideal media for video and multi channel audio applications. The term DVD has become synonymous with DVD-Video, which holds MPEG-2 compressed video, multichannel audio, subtitles, menus, and other features onto a DVD disk for playback in industry standard players.————————PPAn optical disc format that consists of microscopic reflective pits that are scanned by a laser. The displacement of the laser beam allows the drive to work out if the pit represents a 1 or a 0 in binary code.————————WikiVAn acronym for "Digital Versatile Disk". It is the same size as a compact disc (CD). A single layer DVD has a storage capacity of 4.7gb and a dual layer disc has a capacity of 8.5gb.
Audio and video glossary. 2014.