DVD (Digital Versatile Disc) is a CD-sized but more capacious disk (from 4.7 GB up to 17.1 GB) used to record and store video and audio recordings, multimedia and games. Like CD, DVD comes in several predefined formats:

• DVD-Video, inaugurated in the U.S. in 1997, has become the most popular of all DVD formats since it demonstrated it was a perfect medium for video content distribution. A single CD-sized disk can hold a movie feature with top quality picture and surround sound,
• DVD-ROM is gradually replacing the CD-ROM format and provides a new data storage medium for the computer industry, featuring much larger data storage capacity. PCs offered today are equipped with DVD-ROM drives in place of CD-ROM drives installed until recently. Also the most recent game consoles such as PS2 or X-Box use this format for presentation of even more sophisticated and realistic games,
• The specification of DVD-Audio was released in 2000. Soon, the format will become a standard for top quality surround audio with added features.

The important features of the DVD format are as follows:

• Backward compatibility with the existing CD media,
• Physical dimensions of a single CD with one exception: a DVD is made of two 0.6 mm thick adhesive-bonded disks,
• Various structural options: single-layer, double-layer and one-sided or two-sided disk,
• Maximum capacity of 4.7 GB per layer and 8.5 GB per side,
• All formats use the same UDF file system,
• Analog and digital copying protection inherent in the format.

Since 1998, when TAKT signed all the necessary license agreements, we have been manufacturing DVDs in all formats.
We offer the following services:

• DVD-Video authoring and premastering, including audio and video encoding or conversion, addition of subtitles, menus or navigation controls and transfer to DLT tapes,
• Replication of the following disk formats: DVD-5 (4.7 GB one-sided disk), DVD-10 (9.4 GB two-sided disk), DVD-9 (8.5 GB two-layer disk). We need one master for the DVD-5 format and two masters for each of the latter formats. We carefully test all our disks for quality, as required under the licensing agreements with Philips, Toshiba and DVD FLLC,
• We print DVDs in the same way as CDs with the exception of DVD-10's that are printable only on the narrow ring around the center hole.