DVD Introduction
In the 1980s, the introduction of CD Audio was huge development for the music industry. Towards the end of the last century saw the complete acceptance of CD-ROM in 2005 DVD's provide increased capacity.

Input Formats Accepted:
DLT III, DLT III XT and DLT IV.
DVD-R General Grade. (Acceptable Master Australian Replication)
DVD-R Authoring Grade.
DVD+R is not recommended

Restrictions for DVD 9 (Dual Layer): DVD 9s can only be accepted on DLT tapes or as Single Layer Part A and Part B - Phone and discuss your requirements.

DLT Tape players:
We accept DLT tapes, which have been recorded on Quantum DLT 2000, 2000 XT, 4000, 7000 and 8000.

 

 

 

CREATING DVD TITLES
The production process comprises of authoring, pre-mastering and manufacturing. Multimedia titles for DVD can be created using similar
tools to those used for CD-ROM titles such as Macromedia Director,
Flash, Java etc.

MANUFACTURING DVD DISCS

The manufacturing process is similar to that of CD-ROM where as a
glass stamper is formed in order to produce a nickel stamper which
in turn makes the DVD discs.
The final DVD disc can be a DVD-5, DVD-10 or DVD-9 depending on
the data size and whether a double-sided disc is acceptable. DVD-9
and DVD-10 discs will require two DLTs, one for each side/layer

	DVD-5	DVD-9	DVD-10
Diameter	120 mm	120 mm	120 mm
Thickness	1.2 mm	1.2 mm	1.2 mm
Number of sides	1	1	2
Number of layers	1	2	2
Diameter of center	15mm	15mm	15mm
Capacity	4.7 Gb	8.5 Gb	9.4 Gb
Storage (mins)	approx. 133	approx. 242	approx. 266