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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know
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DEDICATION This book is dedicated t
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Contents ix Chapter 2 DVD’s Relat
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Contents xi Where Can I Get DVD Tra
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Preface In 1996, when those of us i
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What Is DVD? Chapter 1 General DVD
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• Up to 32 subtitle/karaoke track
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General DVD 5 change) and informati
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General DVD 7 movie studios were de
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General DVD 9 and compatibility wit
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General DVD 11 does not include adu
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How Can I Find DVDs with Specific F
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General DVD 15 • Toshiba (1996) 1
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• 400 DVD-Video titles in Europe
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General DVD 19 Seven regions (also
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hardware and software must include
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General DVD 25 High-Bandwidth Digit
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watermarking technique used by Divx
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Mobile Fidelity Labs, Pioneer, Sony
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General DVD 33 NTSC) signal. The pl
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data rate; in many cases, the video
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pressure to completely fill all the
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scheduled to arrive in time for Chr
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“Will I Have Problems Connecting
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concerns. Panasonic also released a
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One problem is that many TVs with p
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TABLE 1-1 DVD Problems Title Player
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Title Player Problem Solution Gener
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Title Player Problem Solution Gener
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chains refuse to carry discs with u
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What’s the Difference Between Clo
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Will DVD Replace VCR? Chapter 2 DVD
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DVD’s Relationship to Other Produ
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format. MPEG-4 files, however, can
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What Are the Outputs of a DVD Playe
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• Digital audio with 1 to 5.1 cha
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DVD Technical Details 85 mV peak, a
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Audio Hookup The following audio ho
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the stereo connectors, so three sep
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DVD-R 1.0 (12 cm, SS/SL) 3.68 gig (
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DVD Technical Details 93 Dolby Digi
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A disc can also have up to 32 subpi
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March 2003 There are now at least 5
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Notation and Units Chapter 7 Leftov
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Martin Leese Dana Parker Eric Smith
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DVD-RW, 126-127 DVD�R, 128-129 DV
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DVD Audio Recording (DVD AR), 1 DVD
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video encoding tools, 143-147 Video
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