My name is Jim Garner, and I work as a technology consultant with a firm specializing in document archiving, based out of Minnesota. For the 23 years of my careers I have seen many technological solutions come and go. But for the past some years the solution which has captured the eyes of everyone is DVD. It is easy to carry, store and use. And it offers great archiving characteristics, like great resilience against various means of disc damage e.g., scratches, fingerprints and many more.

DVD comes in various shapes and forms. It can be single sided or double sided to start with. Recordable DVDs were initially developed by HP, creating great ease for transport of large volume of data. Nowadays recordable DVDs are most frequently used for creating a consumer dvd copy of audio and video. Just like a CD, a DVD is also burned, however it uses a smaller wavelength laser diode light. With dvd writers available easily today, dvd burning is a time tested technology offering great storage volume as compared to CD.

This has resulted in a great surge in dvd copy software. Just as dvds, the software for dvd copying come in all shapes and sizes. Some are intended for specific kind of usage, e.g., creating video discs, while others are general purpose allowing any time of dvd to be created.