[USMA:36971] 8 cm Mini DVD.

[Remek Kocz]

I shopped around for mini DVD's today.  It looks like there is a good contingent of manufacturers who are not afraid to put the dimensions (8 cm) of the discs on their covers.  Memorex and Panasonic take the lead here: they place the 8 cm right on the front.  The more timid companies, like Fuji and Sony, don't refer to any measurements.  More than 20 years ago, when the 3.5 inch floppy showed up, the US marketing machine wouldn't even hear of using centimeters, ramming the inches down the world's throats.  So, the 9 cm floppy had to become a 3.5" floppy even though it wasn't.  Glad to see that things have changed.  Maybe all future digital media will be marketed in centimeters.