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DVD stands for Digital Versatile Disc and was introduced to Switzerland in 1997. It is a disc of synthetic material (4.7 GB) which looks like a CD. Thanks to its higher storage, however, it contains high-quality movie material and multi-channel audio information on the movie. (Dolby Digital/DTS as an option). A DVD can contain up to eight different language versions and 32 subtitles to one single movie. DVD players can play standard Audio-CDs, Video-CDs and often also JPEG- and MP3-CDs. PAL-DVDs offer a resolution of 720x576 pixel (SD resolution). Newer devices with a HDMI output can scale a DVD picture up to a HTDV resolution.
Thanks to the DVD, the consumer electronics market strongly grew at the end of the 90ies and received new impulses. The Blu-ray Disc (Sony, Philips, Panasonic, Pioneer) and the HD-DVD (Toshiba) are considered the follow-up formats of the DVD. The DVD is also suitable as a memory medium. There are three formats competing with each other: the DVD+R/RW (Sony, Philips), the DVD-R/RW (Pioneer) and the DVD-RAM (Panasonic). In the meantime, there are combiplayers which can write and read the DVD-R/RW as well as the DVD+R/RW. The blank DVDs cost about the same
 DVD player and recorder in the price comparison
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