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Flipper

In digital video world, a flipper refers to a specific type of DVD disc that has content on both sides of the disc.

As each DVD side can hold either 4.7GB or 8.5GB of data, there are three types of flippers available: DVD-10, DVD-14 and DVD-18 discs.

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