A Digital Video Disc is an medium, to store data on. It used lasers for reading and writing Data, just like a CD. The difference to a CD is, that while on CD there s only storage place for 700mb, on a DVD you can put 4.7GB of Data, or even, if it s double-layered, 9.4GB of Data. A DVD is the most popular medium for storing videos.

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