DVD recordable higher-capacity formats like Blu-ray and HD DVD. A double-layer DVD+RW specification was approved in March 2006 with a capacity of 8.5 GB. However, manufacturing support for these rewritable dual-layer discs did not materialize due to costs and expected competition from newer and higher-capacity formats like Blu-ray and HD DVD. DVD recordable DVD recordable and DVD rewritable are optical disc recording technologies. DVD optical disc formats that can be recorded by a DVD recorder, (written, “burned”), either write once or rewritable (write multiple times) format written by laser, as compared to DVD-ROM, which is technically mass-produced by pressing, primarily for the
Picture disc picture disc is "To Elvis: Love Still Burning", a collection of 11 Elvis Presley tribute songs by various artists, issued in May 1978. Both sides of the album (Fotoplay FSP-1001) picture Presley. On some picture discs, the images used were meant to create an optical illusion while the record was rotating on the turntable (as in the B side of Curved Air's "Airconditioning"), while others used the visual effect to add to the music — for example, the 1979 picture disc of Fischer-Z's "The Worker" featured a train which endlessly commuted around the turntable, reinforcing the song's message. Later picture