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DVD
LD
Encode
method
Digital/MPEG
Analog
Capacity
133
minutes
242
minutes
266
minutes
484
minutes
Playing Time
Single-side
60 minutes
double-side
120 minutes
12cm
Disc diameter
30cm/20cm
Horizontal
resolution
More than 500 line
No more than
430 line
Multiple kinds
Picture
proportion
One kind
Subtitle
32 kinds
16 kinds
at most
Sound quality
48KHz, 96KHz/
6, 20, 24bit
44.1KHz/
16bit
Single-
side
single-
layer
4.7G
Double
-side
single
-layer
8.5G
Single-
side
double-
layer
9.4G
Double-
side
double-
layer
17G
Dics Protection and DVD Characteristics