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[1.31] What's a hybrid DVD?
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- A disc that works in both DVD-Video players
and DVD-ROM PCs. (More accurately called an enhanced DVD)
- A DVD-ROM disc that runs on Windows and Mac
OS computers. (More accurately called a cross-platform
DVD.)
- A DVD-ROM or DVD-Video disc that also contains
Web content for connecting to the Internet. (More accurately called
a WebDVD or Enhanced DVD.)
- A disc that contains both DVD-Video and DVD-Audio
content or SACD content. (More accurately called a universal
or AV DVD. The DVD-Audio standard allows this. The SACD
standard does not officially allow video, so it's unclear what
a given SACD player will do with a hybrid SACD+DVD-Video
disc.) Other variations of this hybrid would be a disc with both
DVD-Audio and SACD content, or a disc with all three formats.
- A disc with two layers, one that can be read
in DVD players and one that can be read in CD players. (More accurately
called a legacy or CD-compatible disc.) There are
at least three variations of this hybrid, although most aren't
commercially available:
- A 0.9- to 1.2-mm CD substrate bonded to
the back of a 0.6 mm DVD substrate. One side can be read by
CD players, the other side by DVD players. The resulting disc
is 0.6 mm thicker than a standard CD or DVD, which can cause
problems in players with tight tolerances, such as portables.
Sonopress, the first company to announce this type, calls
it DVDPlus. It's colloquially known as a fat disc. There's
a variation in which an 8-cm data area is embedded in a 12-cm
substrate so that a label can be printed on the outer ring.
- A 0.6-mm CD substrate bonded to a semitransparent
0.6 mm DVD substrate. Both layers are read from the same side,
with the CD player being required to read through the semitransparent
DVD layer, causing problems with some CD players. The trick
is to make the semitransparent layer "invisible" to 780-nm
CD lasers. This is the format used for hybrid SACDs.
- A 0.6-mm CD substrate, with a special refractive
coating that causes a 1.2 mm focal depth, bonded to the back
of a 0.6 mm DVD substrate. One side can be read by CD players,
the other side by DVD players.
- A 0.6-mm DVD substrate bonded to a CD+DVD
hybrid substrate (#2 in this subsection). This disc would
be readable by SACD and CD players on one side and by standard
DVD players on the other (since most standard DVD players
are confused by a hybrid disc with only a semitransparent
layer).
- A disc with two layers or two sections one containing
pressed (DVD-ROM) data and one containing rewritable (DVD-RAM
or other) media for recording. (More accurately called a DVD-PROM,
mixed-media, or rewritable sandwich disc.)
- A disc with two layers on one side and one layer
on the other. (More accurately called a DVD-14.)
- A disc with an embedded memory chip for storing
custom usage data and access codes. (More accurately called
a chipped DVD.)
- A disc that has a foreign language dubbed audio
track and also has subtitles in that language.
Did I miss any?
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