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Optical media types
- Compact disc (CD): CD-DA, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, 5.1 Music Disc, Super Audio CD (SACD), Photo CD, CD Video (CDV), Video CD (VCD), Super Video CD (SVCD), CD+G, CD-Text, CD-ROM XA, CD-i, MIL-CD, Mini CD
- Digital Versatile Disc (DVD): DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-R DL, DVD+R DL, DVD-R DS, DVD+R DS, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, DVD-RAM, DVD-D, DVD-A, DVD-Video, HVD, Flexplay, EcoDisc, MiniDVD
- Blu-ray Disc (BD): BD-R & BD-RE, Blu-ray 3D, Mini Blu-ray Disc, 4K Blu-ray (Ultra HD Blu-ray)
- M-DISC
- Universal Media Disc (UMD)
- Enhanced Versatile Disc (EVD)
- Forward Versatile Disc (FVD)
- Holographic Versatile Disc (HVD)
- China Blue High-definition Disc (CBHD)
- HD DVD: HD DVD-R, HD DVD-RW, HD DVD-RAM
- High-Definition Versatile Multilayer Disc (HD VMD)
- VCDHD
- GD-ROM
- Personal Video Disc (PVD)
- MiniDisc (MD): MD Data, MD Data2
- Hi-MD
- LaserDisc (LD): LD-ROM, LV-ROM
- Video Single Disc (VSD)
- Magneto-optical discs
- Ultra Density Optical (UDO)
- 3D optical data storage
- Stacked Volumetric Optical Disk (SVOD)
- Fluorescent Multilayer Disc
- Hyper CD-ROM
- Nintendo optical disc (NOD)
- Archival Disc (AD)
- Professional Disc
- DataPlay
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Capacity |
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| Physical size | Nominal capacity in GB
(10 bytes) | Typical capacity in GiB
(2 bytes) |
| 12 cm, single sided | 8.5 | 7.96 |
| 12 cm, double sided | 17.1 | 15.91 |
| 8 cm, single sided | 2.65 | 2.47 |
| 8 cm, double sided | 5.3 | 4.94 |
DVD-R DL has compatibility issues with legacy DVD-ROM drives known as pickup head overrun.
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