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- initialism Digital Versatile Disc
recordable . A form of digital media that is similar to a CD, but has far denser storage and thus greater capacity. It can only be written to once, but it can be read from an indefinite number of times.
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Examples
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Because the disc is a DVD-R and not a factory-pressed commercial DVD, it has a bluish tint on the side with the data.
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After my hard drive crashed, I noticed I had two blank DVD-R spindles to back-up to organize my different back-ups in addition to the new external HD.
From The Tips Box: Business Hours, CD Organising, Fresh Snacking | Lifehacker Australia 2010
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Actually Season 3 is also available on DVD, currently a 2-disk DVD-R set from Amazon, and will eventually (fairly soon probably) be released as a single disk true DVD.
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And I do lots and lots of digitizing and multi-format backups (CD-R, DVD-R, external drive, etc.)
Advisor: What should I do with my high school CD collection? Boing Boing 2010
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It features the following speeds: 4x for DVD+R DL, 4x for DVD-R DL, 8x for both single layer DVD±R, 8x for single layer DVD+RW, 6x for single layer DVD-RW, 5x for DVD-RAM, and 24x/16x for CD-R/RW.
Midnight Sideshow | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009
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Hopefully now that we have our new PC with a DVD-R I can set up a regular schedule.
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You can erase recordings from the hard disk and/or dub them onto a DVD-R or - RW.
DVD RECORDER 2008
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With these machines you can record either directly to a DVD-R or - RW or to the hard disk.
DVD RECORDER 2008
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After my hard drive crashed, I noticed I had two blank DVD-R spindles to back-up to organize my different back-ups in addition to the new external HD.
From The Tips Box: Business Hours, CD Organising, Fresh Snacking | Lifehacker Australia 2010
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With typical bad timing, I bought/watched a poor quality sourced-from-VHS DVD-R of this one last weekend.
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