PC Peripherals Exactly what are DVD5, DVD6, DVD9 etc etc??

[Params7]

Just got myself I/O DVD burner, so i'm new to DVD burning stuff.....i do know about DVD-/+R/RW but what kind of disks are DVD5 or DVD7 etc? what do these numbers in the end mean?

 

[zhopudey]

dvd5 I think would be our normal dvd with 4.7 billion bytes capacity (4.3GB)

dvd9 is the dual-layer dvd with 8.4 billion bytes capacity.

no idea about dvd6

 

[Crazy_Eddy]

http://www.mediaheaven.co.uk/dvd-formats.htm

AFAIK, I've heard of only DVD5 and DVD9.. the site mentions DVD10 as well. But I doubt there's DVD6, DVD7 etc

 

[Shripad]

there are DVD6/7+/8 . This is more of a hardware standard. i mean player standard.