MiniDVD (other)
MiniDVD or 8 cm DVD (also "3 inch DVD") is a DVD disc with a reduced diameter of . It has been most commonly used in camcorders due to its compact size. The most common MiniDVDs are single layered and hold 1.4 Gigabyte, GB of data, but there are variants that can offer up to 5.2 GB of storage space, through a combination of dual layers and dual sides. 8 cm DVDs were originally used for music videos and as such became known as DVD single, similarly to how 8 cm optical discs were previously used for music single (music), singles on compact discs (i.e. CD single and miniCD). However the MiniDVD format has been mostly used as recordable discs in DVD-based camcorders during the 2000s; a single layer disc can record up to 30 minutes of standard definition video. A number of movies and TV shows have also been released on the format in the mid-2000s, usually targeting children using low-cost small players. Nintendo used a Nintendo GameCube Game Disc, very similar disc-ba ...
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