What is a DVD-ROM?

Answer by  mmonshausen (114)

DVD-ROM stands for DVD-ReadOnlyMemory and means that you are not able to alter its content. You are not able to add some data or delete the saved data using a dvd writer. In contrast there are DVD-Rs and DVD-RWs which allow you to write new data to an DVD once (DVD-R) or multiple times (DVD-RW).

Answer by  thorsdecree (409)

DVD-ROM stands for Digital Video Disc - Read Only Memory. It is a DVD that can only be written once. Once a DVD-ROM is burned, it cannot be rewritten. It is a very common DVD format usually used for video or archiving files. For example, DVD movies and Windows installer disks are both DVD-ROM format disks.

Answer by  trigonometry (668)

It is a DVD used to store digital data for a computer. That means, instead of storing audio and video information, the DVD contains a filesystem and arbitrary files that can be read by a computer. The fact that it is a ROM means that you can only read from the medium but not modify or write data on it.

Answer by  Sjanten (5)

DVD-ROM is a optical storage media, mainly used for video and data storage. The most common ones are 12 cm in diameter, and can normally contain 4.7 GB of data.