DVD CHARACTERISTICS
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DVD player is the ticket of your home theater. Every technical index of this machine is far more superior to any
previous audio-visual equipment. This completely new digital technology has compressed the audio visual
effect of cinema into 12cm diameter disc which is the same in dimension as the CD disc. Especially the Dolby
digital output can provide prominent digital surround effect. It can also be compatible with the existing CD,
CD-R and CD-RW (It can not be compatible with some CD-RW discs).
Compare DVD disc with other discs:

DVD LD SVCD VCD CD

Encode
method Digital/MPEG Analog Digital Digital/
MPEG Digital
Capacity 650MB 650MB 650MB
133
minutes
242
minutes
266
minutes
484
minutes
Playing Time
Single-side
60 minutes
double-side
120 minutes
45 minutes 74 minutes 74 minutes
12cm/8cm 12cm/8cm
Disc diameter 30cm/20cm 12cm 12cm
Horizontal
resolution More than 500 lines No more than
430 lines
No more than
350 lines
No more than
250 lines
Multiple kinds
Picture
proportion One kind One kind One kind
Subtitle 32 kinds 16 kinds
at most
4 kinds
at most
4 kinds
at most
4 kinds
2 kinds 2 kinds
Language 8 kinds
Sound quality 48KHz, 96KHz/
6, 20, 24bit
44.1KHz/
16bit
44.1KHz/
16bit
44.1KHz/
16bit
44.1KHz/
16bit
Single-
side
single-
layer
4.7G
Double
-side
single
-layer
8.5G
Single-
side
double-
layer
9.4G
Double-
side
double-
layer
17G

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