About DVDs

 
What You Get

With a KeepsakePix DVD you get a custom-made DVD that will allow you to enjoy your home movies and/or photos on your own television screen.

Bonus introductory movie set to music and on-screen menus are optional.  Chapter menus are optional.

Each DVD movie arrives with a custom designed label unique to the contents of the movie.

Custom DVD Label

DVD Chapter Menu (if desired)

 

What is DVD?

You may have heard DVD stands for “digital video disc,” but to be accurate, it stands for “digital versatile disc.”

A DVD looks like a CD, but it holds any kind of digital file– audio files and still images, as well as video files. Movies are found on DVDs—not CDs.

All DVDs are not the same. There are a variety of DVDs — DVD-RAM, DVD-ROM, DVD+RW, DVD-RW, DVD-R and DVD-Audio. To make things even more confusing the various DVD types are not all cross-compatible. For instance, a DVD-RAM that plays fine on your computer will not necessarily play in the DVD-Video player in your living room.

Like a CD-RW, DVD+RW and DVD-RW are re-writable discs. The user can re-record over a previously recorded disc. DVD-RAM is also re-writeable.

On the other hand, DVD-R (recordable) is a write-once medium, and cannot be re-recorded.

Only DVD-R, DVD+RW and DVD-RW can play in a standard DVD-Video player. To confuse things even further, they will only play in some DVD players, not in all of them. Some DVD players, especially older ones, will not play back DVD-R discs. And some DVD players won’t play movies on DVD+R discs. Viewers may only be able to watch them on their desktop monitors.