Memorex Capacity

Capacity

• The capacity of a Memorex DVD-R is 4.7 GB. This will record approximately 120 minutes of standard format video and more with compressed format videos. It can record up to seven CDs worth of audio files and 4.7 GB of data.

Varieties

• Memorex DVD-Rs come in silver or in multicolor packs. Package sizes range from single disks to packages of 100 or more. Memorex DVD-Rs with ink jet printable surfaces let you print titles and designs directly on the disks with special disk ink jet printers.

Memorex

• The Memorex Corp. started out in 1961 producing computer tapes and expanded to become a supplier of IBM computer peripheral products. The company began producing consumer media in 1971 with its famous "Is it live or is it Memorex?" cassette tape commercials. Since then, the company has gone on to produce high quality CDs, DVDs, flash memory, computer accessories and other information storage media as well as disk drives and communications controllers.

What is Memorex DVD-R

A Memorex DVD-R is a recordable disk that can be written once by a computer or video recorder. Once a program or movie is recorded onto the disk, it cannot be removed or altered in any way. Memorex is a widely recognized brand name, producing audio and video tape, CDs and DVDs as well as other recording materials. Recordable DVDs hold a lot of information and often are used to back up important files on a computer.

Recording Media

• Memorexs DVD-R come in a variety of colors. All are recordable once by laser technology available in standard DVD burner drives on computers that support DVD-R/RW blank media, in DVD RAM recordable drives that only support write-once disks and in stand-alone DVD recorders. The disks have a dye layer underneath a reflective surface. The laser writing head on the DVD burner selectively darkens areas on the dye layer to create the digital pattern that the reading laser head scans.

Speed

• Memorex DVD-Rs record audio files at 16x normal playing speed and will record at slower speeds for video and HD video files that may be more complex to record. Higher speed recording can be prone to errors. Data files usually burn at higher speeds depending on the quality of the DVD burner.

History and Evolution of Memorex

Memorex began as a computer tape producer and expanded to become a major IBM plug compatible peripheral supplier. It is now a consumer electronics brand of Imation specializing in disk recordable media for CD and DVD drives, flash memory, computer accessories and other electronics.

Established in 1961 in Silicon Valley, Memorex started by selling computer tapes, then added other media such as disk packs. The company then expanded into disk drives and other peripheral equipment for IBM mainframes. During the 1970s and into the early 1980s Memorex was worldwide one of the largest independent suppliers of disk drives and communications controllers to users of IBM-compatible mainframes, as well as media for computer uses and consumers.

Memorex Mini-Disc

Memorex entered the consumer media business in 1971 first with its "shattering glass" advertisements and then with a series of famous television commercials featuring Ella Fitzgerald. In the commercials she would sing a note that shattered a glass while being recorded to a Memorex audio cassette. The tape was played back and the recording also broke the glass, asking "Is it live, or is it Memorex?"
In 1982 Memorex was bought by Burroughs. Over the next six years, Burroughs and its successor Unisys shut down, sold off or spun out the various parts of Memorex.
The computer media, communications and IBM end user sales and service organization were spun out as Memorex International. In 1988 Memorex acquired the Telex Corporation becoming Memorex Telex NV, a corporation based in the Netherlands, which survived as an entity until the middle 1990s.^[1] The company evolved into a provider of information technology solutions including the distribution and integration of data network and storage products and the provision of related services in 18 countries worldwide. As late as 2006, several pieces existed as subsidiaries of other companies, see e.g., Memorex Telex Japan Ltd^[2] a subsidiary of Kanematsu^[3] or Memorex Telex (UK) Ltd. a subsidiary of EDS Global Field Services.^[4]
Today, Memorex is an Imation brand for consumer electronics and accessories such as portable audio players, iPod accessories, flat panel TVs, Blu-ray Disc players, flash drives, CDs and DVDs.^[5] Few if any of these products are actually manufactured by Memorex or Imation; for example, CD-Rs are made by CMC Magnetics Corp of Taiwan, Ritek of Taiwan and Moser Baer of India. CD-Rs were formerly made by Daxon of Malaysia and Prodisc Technology of Taiwan.