- published: 01 Mar 2016
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DVD is an optical disc storage format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions.
Pre-recorded DVDs are mass-produced using molding machines that physically stamp data onto the DVD. Such discs are known as DVD-ROM, because data can only be read and not written nor erased. Blank recordable DVD discs (DVD-R and DVD+R) can be recorded once using a DVD recorder and then function as a DVD-ROM. Rewritable DVDs (DVD-RW, DVD+RW, and DVD-RAM) can be recorded and erased multiple times.
DVDs are used in DVD-Video consumer digital video format and in DVD-Audio consumer digital audio format, as well as for authoring AVCHD discs. DVDs containing other types of information may be referred to as DVD data discs.
Before the advent of DVD, Video CD (VCD) became the first format for distributing digitally encoded films on standard 120 mm optical discs. (Its predecessor, CD Video, used analog video encoding.) VCD was on the market in 1993. In the same year, two new optical disc storage formats were being developed. One was the Multimedia Compact Disc (MMCD), backed by Philips and Sony, and the other was the Super Density (SD) disc, supported by Toshiba, Time Warner, Matsushita Electric, Hitachi, Mitsubishi Electric, Pioneer, Thomson, and JVC.
Could it be, is this the end?
I've seen it coming from a far and I welcome it like a friend.
A lost love, like a bright light.
The direction I'm lacking is leading me.
So far I haven't seen a reason to be.
I've lost count of the shackles that bind me.
I'm not alone, I don't that comforting.
One more time it's my turn to make amends.
I make my own rules.
I'm sure tomorrow I'll break them again,
its getting easy to excuse my mistakes.
I'll walk this line until my conscience abandons me.
Times when you tell me that you wish you could die
and then you give me shit for even trying to be a friend.
There's no question,
I'd take your place in the light and give this darkness to you.
So here we are again.
Our paths diverge but I'll see you in the end.
Here we are I can see the end.
The direction I'm lacking is leading me.
I'm so tired and shit, I'm beat.