Sony RDR-GX7 Technical Notes page 4

History of Recordable DVD
DVD-R
DVD-RW
DVD+RW
DVD+R
DVD-RAM
Note: The issue dates of the documents listed above are from the original versions of the copyright owners. However, the DVD+RW 3.0 Gbyte and 6.0 Gbyte versions only are ISO/IEC 16969:1999.
4
1997 1998
07
Ver. 1.0
Single Side 3.95 Gbytes
07
Ver. 1.0
Single Side 2.6 Gbytes Single Side 4.7 Gbytes Double Side 9.4 Gbytes
At present, high speed, recordable discs are being
developed for each of these formats. In the near future,
these discs will become available and are expected to
improve data storage capabilities for computers.
1999 2000 2001
02 Ver. 2.0 for Authoring Single Side 4.7 Gbytes
05 Ver. 2.0 for General Single Side 4.7 Gbytes
11 03
Ver. 1.0 Ver. 1.1
Single Side 4.7 Gbytes
10 03
Single Side 3.0 Gbytes Ver. 1.0
Double Side 6.0 Gbytes Single Side 4.7 Gbytes
09
Ver. 2.0
2002 2003
01
Ver. 1.0
Single Side 4.7 Gbytes