Some say DVD stands for Digital Versatile Disc. Others say DVD stands for Digital Video Disc. RAM stands for Random Access Memory. Random access allows users to instantly access any location on the disc, repeat sections on the disc, and pause for as long as necessary. Sector headers are embossed in the disc during manufacture.

DVD-RAM has the best recording features but it is not compatible with most DVD-ROM drives and DVD-Video players...

There are three recordable versions of DVD-ROM: DVD-R, DVD-RAM, and DVD-RW. DVD-R can record data once (sequentally only), while DVD-RAM and DVD-RW can be rewritten hundreds of thousands of times. Final versions of the DVD-R and DVD-RAM specifications were published in August 1997 (see 6.1). DVD-RW will be finalized by the end of 1998. These recordable media are not currently usable for home video recording (see 1.14), though home DVD-RAM recorders will eventually become available.

The transfer rate for DVD-RAM media is determined by the media specification. The transfer rate for a 2.6 GB disc (side) is 695 KB/sec.

Type 1 DVD-RAM media is in a sealed cartridge; the disc cannot be removed from the cartridge. (Type 2 DVD-RAM media, sold in a cartridge, allows the disc to be removed.)

When a Widescreen movie is transferred to home video, the black bars at the top and bottom of the picture are usually encoded along with the movie. But when a film is anamorphically transferred, the picture is squeezed to fit into a 4:3 frame, and then unsqueezed by your DVD player. This way, instead of lines of resolution being used on the letterbox area during the encoding process, the unsqueezed picture uses the full resolution of the entire screen because the player generates the black bars.

We configure systems with "virtual RAM" sizes ranging from 32 Megabytes to about 490 Megabytes (this is the limit in "non hi-mem" mode for User-mode-linux).

The DVD title will be the title of your movie. It will appear everywhere the phrase "DVD Title Here" is stated on either the Standard or Enhanced DVD themes.

There were several episodes that aired in Season 2 that, were it not for the fact that we only have 42 minutes and 30 seconds of air time, would have been longer. And they were good longer - some of them were even better longer. There were also some moments in episodes that we had to delete because of the rules of Broadcast Standards and Practices. Nothing too racy but perhaps more racy than what is usually shown on television.

DVD-RAM uses Zone Constant Linear Velocity (also known as Z-CLV) for reading. It divides the disc into several districts and arranges in a spiral way. Each district contains several sectors. Each sector has its own physical address. Therefore, it uses the same "Data Random Storage" as HDD, which also provides burning repetition. Its burning principle is similar to CD-R / RW, which uses Constant Linear Velocity (also known as CLV). A DVD-R can only be burned once.

Phase change material is the recording medium in DVD-RAM discs. The molecules of phase change material can take on two distinct states: amorphous or crystalline. Before recording, the phase change material is in its crystalline state. During recording, the laser quickly heats and then cools the material causing it to become amorphous at the data mark area. When the disc is erased, a lower-powered laser is used to return the surface material to its crystalline state.

Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc. Digital Versatile Disc - Recordable. DVD is a high density optical disc capable of recording high quality pictures and sound. ** Your player must support DVD-R to play our DVDs. There are differences between the DVD-R media we use and the DVD Videos used for commercial movies. A DVD-R disc is a one-time recordable DVD disc. The DVD-R is the only reasonable disc media to use when creating individual or one-off DVD products.

No. You will need to supply either a DVD-R master or for pressed DVDs we also accept a correctly formatted DLT tape.

Well apparently it has to do with something called gene expression, which refers to the pattern in which genes are switched on and off. And gene expression has a major effect on your body's biological processes. Each cell in your body contains a 'power-factory' that produces energy, called the mitochondria.