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MAM DVD-R Specifications, Performance
 

MAM DVD-R : The Best Performing DVD-R


DVD-R general specifications

Parameter
DVD-R General Specifications
Storage capacity
4,7 GB
Disc Diameter
120 mm
Disc Thickness
1,2 mm
Substrate
Polycarbonate
Recording Material
Organic dye
Reflective Layer
Silver
Recording Wavelength
650 nm
Reading Wavelength
650 nm (635 nm)

 

MAM DVD-R 

 

Parameter
MAM
Book D Specifications
Reflectivity
50%
45 to85%
Optimum recording power
10mW
6 to12 mW
l 14/l 14H
0,65
>0,60
l 31/l 14
0,25
>0,15
Jitter
7,5%
< 8%
PI Error
< 100
< 280

 

MAM DVD-R Specifications for General Purpose silver [ 43KB]
MAM DVD-R Specifications for General Purpose gold[ 43KB]
MAM DVD+R Specifications for General Purpose double layer [ 43KB]


Performance of MAM DVD-R



MAM Media Durability


Our two closest competitors' discs reach the failure

point of 220 at 40 hours and 250 hours


The paramaters of CD & DVD

Parameter
DVD
CD
Disc diameter
120mm
120mm
Disc thickness
1.2mm
1.2mm
Disc structure
Two bonded 0.6 mm substrates
Single substrate
Laser wavelength
650
780nm (infrared)
Numerical aperture
0.60
0.45
Track pitch
0.74m
1.6m
Shortest pit/land length
0.4m
0.83m
Data layers
1 or 2
1
Data Capacity
Single layer 4.7 GB

Double layer 8.5 GB
Approx. 680 MB
Reference user data rate
1.108 GBps nominal
Mode1: 153.6KBps

Mode2: 176.4KBps
Data bit rate
Max. total of combined audio and video=

9.8 Mbps

Max. sum of Elementary streams + system overhead

=11.08 Mbps (1X DVD)
1.44Mbps (video,audio)

1X vitesse CD)
Video compression
MPEG-2
MPEG-1
Sound Tracks
Mandatory (NTSC): 2-channel linear PCR

and/or 2-channel Dolby Digital (AC-3).

Optional: up to 8 streams of data available
2 Channel-MPEG
Subtitles
Up to 32 Languages
Open caption only
Error Correction

Frame rate
Reed Solomon Product Code

25 Hz frames per sec

Aspect ratio
4:3, 16:9
 
Audio
Dolby AC-3 sampling rate 48 Khz
 
Video buffer size
1.85 Mb (MPEG-2)

328 Kb (MPEG-1)
 

 



 

Difference between CD and DVD


Looking at the pictures, you can see the fundamental differences between a CD and a DVD.
This is a comparison between a standard CD and a single layer DVD.

Because the "pits" are smaller and closer together, DVD has a higher density so it can include more data.  These physical differences account for most of the capacity increase, although improved error correction and slightly larger usable surface area make up the rest.  The difference in density between CD and (single sided) DVD is approximately 7.2   (4.7/.650) .