Here comes DVD.(recordable/rewritable digital video disk formats)

Tape-Disc Business, September, 1999

Recordable/rewritable DVD formats moving slowly but surely ahead.

The four DVD recordable/rewritable formats DVD-R, DVD-RAM, DVD-RW and Video Recording - continue to move forward with increased capacities.

The recordable/rewritable formats supported by the DVD Forum are moving slowly but surely ahead, according to updates on each of the formats - DVD-R, DVD-RAM, DVD-RW and Video Recording - at last month's U.S. DVD Forum Conference in Palm Springs, CA. Each are a work in progress. The DVD-R Version 1.0 specification, for example, was completed in July 1997, but a higher capacity Version 2.0 specification is now in the works.

Here is an update of each of the recordable/rewritable DVD specifications.

DVD-R - The write-once format is...

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