| Disc Diameter: | 120mm (5 inches) |
| Disc Thickness: | 1.2mm (0.6mm thick disc x 2) |
| Memory Capacity: | |
| Single-sided Discs: | |
| DVD-5 (single layer) | 4.7 Gbytes |
| DVD-9 (double layer) | 8.5 Gbytes |
| Double-sided Discs: | |
| DVD-10 (single layer) | 9.4 Gbytes |
| DVD-18 (double layer) | 17.0 Gbytes |
| Track Pitch: | 0.74 micrometer |
| Wave Length of Laser Diode: | 650/635 nanometer |
| Numerical Aperture (N/A): | 0.6 |
| Error Correction: | Reed Solomon Product Code (RS-PC) |
| Signal Modulation: | 8 - 16 |
| Data Transfer Rate: | Variable speed date transfer at an average rate of 4.69 megabits/ second for image and sound |
| Image Compression: | MPEG-2 digital image compression |
| Audio: | Dolby AC-3 (5.1 ch), LPCM for NTSC and MPEG Audio, LPCM for PAL/SECAM (A maximum of 8 audio channels and 32 subtitle channels can be stored) |
| Running Time (movies): | 133 min./side (At an average data rate of 4.69 megabits/ second for image and sound, including 3 audio channels and 4 sub-title channels) |
| File Management Structure: | Micro UDF and/or ISO-9660 |