Digital Versatile Disc|Digital Versatile Disc]] recordable. A form of digital media that is similar to a CD, but has far denser storage and thus greater capacity. It can only be written to once, but it can be read from an indefinite number of times
A DVD-R is a DVD which is capable of recording sound and images, for example from another DVD or from the Internet. DVD-R is an abbreviation for `digital video disc recordable' or `digital versatile disc recordable'