Computer industry's wish list
Movie entertainment is by no means the only field that the DVD standard addresses. DVD also targets computer applications at a time when use of computers isbroadening from business use to home use.
For the development of DVD, technical experts in computer industry voiced the following desires.
- Compatibility between TV and PC
- Backward compatibility with CDs (to protect peoples' assets)
- Forward compatibility with future read/write and write-once discs
- Single file system for all kinds of discs
- No mandatory container such as caddy or cartridge
- Reliable data storage and retrieval
- High online capacity
- High performance for sequential and non-sequential data
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