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...expanded storage capacity will allow for an entire film to fit on one audio CD-sized disk with subtitles in more than 30 languages, resizable viewing areas and multiple camera angles...
...achieve this expanded storage capacity, DVD takes advantage of advances that allow more data to be written to a smaller area of the disk...
With the addition of a second layer, the disks will hold 8.5 gigabytes. A double-sided, double-layered disk will store 17 gigabytes of data...
...with CD-ROM disks, DVD disks will first take the form of read-only devices (DVD-ROM). However, manufacturers are already working on a rewritable version of the disk (DVD-RAM) that will allow you to store and erase data from the disk just as with current floppy and hard disks. As a result, CDs would become a more attractive data backup option and there would be consolidation of multi-disk packages, such as electronic encyclopedias and phone directories...
...utilizes a new video compression method called MPEG-2. In addition, DVD uses AC-3 audio coding--the same coding used by Dolby Sound--to offer significant enhancements in audio, such as the inclusion of different language tracks on one disk...