Archive of posts tagged DVD-RAM

In DVD’s Own Image: DVD-Recordable Technology and Promise

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This article was the first serious public look at the technical aspects of and market potential for DVD-Recordable (DVD-R). Some thirteen years later, it’s gratifying to see that DVD-R became, and indeed still remains, a beloved and universal means for enjoying, distributing, storing and archiving just about everything digital.

ECMA Publishes CD and DVD Lifetime Test Standard

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ECMA International announced that it has published a new standard that specifies an accelerated aging test method for estimating the lifetime of the retrievability of information stored on recordable and rewritable CD (CD-R/RW) and DVD (DVD±R/RW/RAM) discs.

Supercomputer Unravels Rewritable DVD Mysteries

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Forschungszentrum Jülich announced that in the current issue of the journal Nature Materials, researchers from Jülich, Finland and Japan provide insight into the read and write processes that place within the phase-change layer of a rewritable DVD.