We are offering this advice as a guide only, these are not the absolute guidelines for storing your DVD's. Please check with your governing agency as to your specific needs.
DVD-ROM (Digital Versatile Disc Read-Only Memory) is not as popular as the CD-R above, but in coming years maybe the way for document storage. DVD-R is a write-once media on which you can record video, audio, images, and document image archives. DVD-R discs and CD-R discs have the same size. DVD-R technology, like CD-R technology, uses an organic dye as the recording medium that is permanently altered after exposure to the recording laser beam.
You can play a DVD-R disc on a DVD player. You can also play it on a computer equipped with a DVD-ROM drive, a DVD-compliant MPEG decoder card or decoder software and application software that emulates a video player's control functions.
The DVD-ROM specification supports disks with capacities of from 4.7GB to 17GB and access rates of 600 KBps to 1.3 MBps. One of the best features of DVD-ROM drives is that they are backward-compatible with CD-ROMs. This means that DVD-ROM players can play old CD-ROMs, CD-I disks, and video CDs, as well as new DVD-ROMs. Newer DVD players can also read CD-R disks and provides a perfect cross over for your CD-R archive and your NEW DVD-R document storage.
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