# 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.


  1. Compatibility between TV and PC
  2. Backward compatibility with CDs (to protect peoples' assets)
  3. Forward compatibility with future read/write and write-once discs
  4. Single file system for all kinds of discs
  5. No mandatory container such as caddy or cartridge
  6. Reliable data storage and retrieval
  7. High online capacity
  8. High performance for sequential and non-sequential data