What is the difference between High-Grade, Pro-Grade and Archival-Grade DVDs?
High-Grade and Pro-Grade are used to make the distinction between recordable DVD media that has a higher playback rate with stand-alone DVD players. If you’ll be playing back DVD video on various DVD players, Pro-Grade DVD media will achieve the best compatibility results (see above for stand-alone DVD player compatibility information). This doesn’t mean that High-Grade DVD media won’t playback in stand-alone DVD players, only that Pro-Grade media has a better compatibility rate with a higher percentage of players. Additionally, Pro-Grade DVD media are generally manufactured to a higher quality standard than are High-Grade DVD media. Again, this doesn’t mean that High-Grade DVD media are bad. For Pro-Grade DVD media, the highest playback compatibility with stand-alone DVD Players will come from, in general, Ritek and Prodisc. Archival-Grade is used to denote media that is to be considered the best that’s available, or the top-of-the-line, and will usually come from ‘name-brand’ manufac
