DVD

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Digital Video Disc or Digital Versatile Disc

• A plastic disc, like a CD, on which data can be written and read. DVDs are faster, can hold more information, and can support more data formats than CDs.^[1]

• An optically encoded removable disc similar to a CD, but with much higher capacity.

See also

• CD
• CD-R
• CD-ROM
• CD-RW
• Disc
• Diskette
• Disk
• DVD
• DVD-ROM
• Floppy disk
• Hard disk
• Hard drive
• Jaz disk
• Magnetic disk
• Magnetic storage media
• Media
• Optical disk
• Storage media
• WORM disk
• Zip disk

Footnotes

1. ^  American Document Management, Glossary of Terms, http://www.amdoc.com/glossary.shtml.