Media

Optical discs

These accommodate Professional Disc, Blu-ray Disc and DVD (including the baby 8 cm variant).

edit Professional Disc

Pros:

Reliable high-quality media in a careful cartridge

Fast abstracts alteration rate

An accustomed architecture in Electronic news-gathering (ENG) applications

Cons:

Expensive

Affected to vibration

Requires a appropriate disc reader

edit Blu-ray Disc

Pros:

Added affordable than Professional Disc

About reliable with scratch-protective coating

Fast abstracts alteration rate

Recorded disc can be played aback in a customer Blu-ray player

Discs can be acclimated as actual advancement media

Cons:

Expensive

Affected to vibration

Capacity of 8 cm alternative is bound to 7.5GB

edit DVD

Pros:

DVDs are accustomed to best consumers, appropriately advised user-friendly

Recordable DVDs are about cheap

Actual playback of recorded disc in about any DVD or Blu-ray player

Discs can be acclimated as actual advancement media, can be stored alone from a camcorder

Cons:

The constancy of recordable DVDs is argued to be abundant beneath than expected1

Rewritable DVDs amount added than write-once discs

DVDs accept to be "finalized" to be played aback on set-top players

DVDs with aerial analogue recordings cannot be played aback on approved DVD players

A single-sided single-layer 8 cm DVD can fit alone 1.4GB of data

DVDs are affected to vibration

8 cm DVDs cannot be acclimated in best slot-loading drives and may alike accident the drive