Blu Ray Jargon 101 – Disk Acronyms.txt

CDs
Audio CD – umbrella term covering many standards of playing back audio
CD-R – Compact Disk-Recordable – This is a CD that you can record on once, although you don’t have to record the whole thing at one time. You can read it multiple times, something called Write Once Read Many or WORM.
CD-RW – Compact Disk-ReWritable. It was also known as CD-E (Compact Disk-Erasable) during it’s development. You can write on this CD multiple times.
SACD – super audio CD – a special high-resolution, read-only optical audio disk format, not accepted by the mainstream market, but recordings and players continue to be made

DVDs
DVD-R (V mode only) – Record data once, and then it’s the same as a DVD-ROM.
DVD+R – Record data once, and then it’s the same as a DVD-ROM.
DVD-ROM – Read only, no record.
DVD+RW – Record and erase data multiple times
DVD-RW (V/VR mode) – Record and erase data multiple times
DVD-RAM – Record and erase data multiple times.
DVD-Video – properly formatted and structured video content
DVD-Audio – properly formatted and structured audio content

BDs
BD-ROM – blu ray disks, read only, no record.
BD-R – Record once and then it’s the same as a BD-ROM
BD-RE – Record and erase data multiple times

AVCHDs (format for the recording and playback of high definition video)
AVCHD = Advanced Video Codec High Definition
Used in tapeless camcorders, and allows recording high definition video onto disks, memory cards, memory sticks and hard drives. It is compatible with Blu Ray disk format and can be used to create and distribute high definition video.

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