P.3 Media Formats
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## P.3 Media Formats

### P.3.1 DVD

#### P.3.1.1 DVD Physical Format

The physical format of DVD media shall comply with one of the following applicable definitions:

- DVD Specifications for Recordable Disc (DVD-R for General) : Part 1 - Physical Specifications Version 2.0

- DVD Specifications for Recordable Disc (DVD-R for Authoring) : Part 1 - Physical Specifications Version 2.0

- DVD Specifications for Read-Only Disc (DVD-ROM) : Part 1 - Physical Specifications Version 1.13

- DVD Specifications for Re-Recordable (DVD-RW) : Part 1 - Physical Specifications Version 1.1

- DVD+RW Physical Specifications, Version 1.1

- DVD+R Physical Specifications, Version 1.1

##### P.3.1.1.1 DVD Sector Format

The sector format of DVD media shall comply with one of the following applicable definitions:

- DVD Specifications for Recordable Disc (DVD-R for General) : Part 2 - File System Specifications Version 2.0

- DVD Specifications for Recordable Disc (DVD-R for Authoring) : Part 2 - File System Specifications Version 2.0

- DVD Specifications for Read-Only Disc (DVD-ROM) : Part 2 - File System Specifications Version 1.13

- DVD Specifications for Re-Recordable Disc (DVD-RW) : Part 2 - File System Specifications Version 1.0

- DVD+RW Defect Management & Physical Formatting Specification, Version 1.0

No restrictions are placed on the use of disc-at-once, track-at-once, multi-session or packet-written format if applicable to the physical media type, other than that any session should be finalized at the conclusion of writing the media in order to make it readable.

#### P.3.1.2 DVD Logical Format

There are no requirements, restrictions, options or extensions to the logical format that are specific to this media type, beyond those specified in Section P.2.

#### P.3.1.3 DVD Physical Media

The physical medium shall be the 120 mm DVD-R medium as defined in one of the following:

- DVD Specifications for Recordable Disc (DVD-R for General) : Part 1 - Physical Specifications Version 2.0

- DVD Specifications for Recordable Disc (DVD-R for Authoring) : Part 1 - Physical Specifications Version 2.0

- DVD Specifications for Read-Only Disc (DVD-ROM) : Part 1 - Physical Specifications Version 1.13

- DVD Specifications for Re-Recordable (DVD-RW) : Part 1 - Physical Specifications Version 1.1

- DVD+RW Physical Specifications, Version 1.1

- DVD+R Physical Specifications, Version 1.1

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