This article is about 8 cm DVD discs. For other uses, see MiniDVD (disambiguation).

Conventional 12cm disc (left) compared to 8cm disc (right)

MiniDVD (Mini DVD or miniDVD) is a DVD disc having 8 cm in diameter.

The 8 cm optical disc format was originally used for music CD singles, hence the commonly used names CD single and miniCD. Similarly, the manufactured 8 cm DVD discs were originally used for music videos and as such became known as DVD single.

MiniDVD is known also as "3 inch DVD", referring to its approximate diameter in inches.

A MiniDVD can be played back in most DVD players that are tray loaded. The trays on players and DVD drives have an inner ring where the 8 cm disc in centered for loading in the player. Most slot loading players cannot use this format; one exception, however, is the Playstation 3, which officially supports 8 cm discs.

Recordable 8 cm discs are commonly used in DVD-based camcorders. Depending on variant, these discs can offer up to 5.2 GB of storage space.

The Blu-ray Disc format has a Mini-Blu-ray Disc format in development.

Nintendo used a disc-based format for their GameCube system, which was a variant of an 8 cm DVD. This format is also supported by the Nintendo Wii.

[edit] See also

• Blu-ray Disc
• CD Video
• DVD
• HD DVD
• Laserdisc
• Nintendo optical discs
• Universal Media Disc (UMD)
• Video CD (VCD)
• VideoNow

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[edit] External links

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• miniDVD definition on AfterDawn.com