Storage medium including a burst cutting area (BCA)

An information storage medium comprising:

• a burst cutting area (BCA) including two BCA-preamble fields, two BCA-data fields, two BCA-postamble fields and a BCA-concatenation field, each of the BCA-data fields including information data, an error detection code and an error correction code,
• wherein the information data of the BCA-data field is recorded on a unit of BCA record including BCA record ID field which is classified into two categories of authorized applications and notified applications, version number field including a major digit and a minor digit, data length field, and record data field,
• the information data of the BCA-data field includes a first BCA record HD DVD book type identifier, a second BCA record, a third BCA record, and a paddling area,
• the first BCA record includes BCA record ID, version number, data length, book type, disc type, and extended part version, and
• the information data of the two BCA-data fields are identical.