Chapter 1

148 Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About DVD
Spruce was acquired in July 2001 by Apple. The ACX-5100 encoder will
continue to be sold by dealers.
• ACX- 5100 (formerly from CagEnt). Professional Dolby Digital realtime,
5.1-channel encoder. Windows NT.
• ACX-2000 (formerly from CagEnt). Professional Dolby Digital realtime,
2-channel encoder. Windows NT.
• Zapex (www.zapex.com)
• ZP-100. Real-time PCI encoder for 2- or 5.1-channel Dolby Digital
and MPEG Layer 2. Windows NT.
Other Production Tools
• Alcohol Software (www.alcohol-software.com)
• Alcohol 52%. Emulate CDs and DVDs without physical disc. Windows.
$28.
• Alcohol 68%. Copy CDs and DVDs. Windows. $30.
• Alcohol 120%. Combination of Alcohol 52% and Alcohol 68%. Windows.
$50.
• ASINT (www.asintgroup.com)
• Industrial DVD players, touchscreens, and DVD kiosk products.
• BCD Associates (www.bcdusa.com)
• DVD controllers for custom installations.
• Cambridge Multimedia (www.cmgroup.co.uk)
• Touchscreens and other custom interfaces for industrial DVD
players.
• Computer Prompting & Captioning Co. (www.cpcweb.com)
• CPC-DVD. Closed Caption production system. DOS. $6,000.
• DCA (Doug Carson & Associates, www.dcainc.com)
• MIS (Mastering Interface System). Mastering interface system for
DVD and CD. Windows NT.
• ITS (Image Transfer System). Transfer and convert DVD and CD
images.
• DVS� (Data Verification System). Checks DVD and CD images.
Includes Interra Surveyor to check for DVD-Video spec compliance.
Can transfer between discs and tape. Windows NT.