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 many years later. These were deluxe picture discs, priced much higher than ordinary records, and they sold in very small numbers. In the early 1930s the entire record industry was being devastated by a worldwide economic depression and the proliferation of the new medium of radio, which made a wide variety of music available free of charge. Picture discs of all kinds were among the casualties. With the Great Depression and World War II no longer around to interfere with such modest luxuries, the picture disc reemerged in 1946, when Tom Saffardy's Sav-Way Industries began issuing Vogue Records. Vogues were