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DVD-ROM Drive Technology

 

DVD stands for Digital Versatile Disc, an audio/video/data 

standard based on high-density next-generation optical 

discs. Through the build-to-order (BTO) program, Apple 

Computer offers a DVD-ROM drive (part number 661-

1513) and decoder card (part number 661-2071) that 

together are capable of playing DVD-ROM discs. 

 

  DVD discs are much more prone to damage than 

CD-ROM discs. Any type of scratch or other abuse may 

result in a disc that is unreadable.

 

The DVD Forum designed several standards for disc 

manufacture ranging from a single-sided, single-layer disc 

with 4.7 Gigabytes of data to a double-sided, double-layer