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• [A] Zuma Digital. Now part of Tape House Broadband (www.tapehousebroadband.com). What Testing/Verification Services and Tools Are Available? • AudioDev (www.audiodev.com, Sweden, USA, Hong Kong), �46 40 690 49 00. • CD Associates (www.cdassociates.com, CA). Testing equipment and software. (714) 733-8580. • ContentWise (www.contentwise.com, Rehovot, Israel), �972-8-940-8773. Second Sight software for checking compatibility of DVD titles on multiple players. • Hitachi (Japan). Testing services and test discs. Official DVD Forum verification lab. • Intellikey Labs (www.intellikeylabs.com, Burbank , CA), (818) 953-9116, fax (818) 953-9144. DVD Production 169 • Interra Digital Video Technologies (www.interra.tv/), Surveyor software, $6,000. DProbe, $10,000. • ITRI (www.oes.itri.org.tw, HsinChu, Taiwan). Testing services and test discs. Official DVD Verification Lab. 886-3-591-5066, fax 886-3-591-7531. • Matsushita (Japan). Testing services, test discs, and test equipment. Official DVD Verification Lab. �81-6-6905-4195, fax �81-6-6909-5027. • Matsushita/Panasonic (Japan). Panasonic LQ-VD300P emulator. Hardware player with Windows NT software. $15,000. • Philips (www.philips.com, Europe), DVD-Video Verifier software, $500. Official DVD Verification Center. • Pioneer (Japan). Testing services and test discs. Official DVD Verification Lab. �81-3-3495-5474, fax �81-3-3495-4301. • PMTC (Professional Multimedia Test Centre) (www.pmtctest.com/ new/upgrade_flash/upgrade_flash.html, Diepenbeek, Belgium), �32 11 303636. • Sonic Solutions (www.sonic.com, USA). DVD PrePlay software. Emulation and diagnosis tools for Windows. $5000. • Sony (Japan). Testing services and test discs. Official DVD Format Lab. �81-3-5448-2200, fax �81-3-5448-3061.
170 Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About DVD • Testronic Labs (www.testroniclaboratories.com/, Burbank, CA), (818) 845-3223, fax (818) 845-3236. • Toshiba (Japan). Testing services and test discs. Official DVD Verification Lab. �81-3-3457-2105, fax �81-3-5444-9202. • Victor (Japan). Testing services and test discs. Official DVD Verification Lab. �81-3-3289-2813, fax �81-45-450-1639. • WAMO (www.ivyhill-wms.com, USA). Testing services and test discs. Official DVD Forum verification lab. 1-570-383-3568, fax 1-570-383-7487. Also see “Other Production Tools” for tools to analyze and verify coded bitstreams, disc images, and DLTs. Can I Put DVD-Video Content on a CD-R or CD-RW? NOTE: This section refers to creating original DVD-Video content, not copying from DVD to CD. The latter is impractical, since it takes 7 to 14 CDs to hold one side of a DVD. Also, most DVD movies are encrypted so that the files can’t be copied without special software. There are many advantages to creating a DVD-Video volume using an inexpensive recordable CD rather than an expensive recordable DVD. The resulting “cDVD” (also called a “miniDVD”) is perfect for testing and for short video programs. Unfortunately, you can put DVD-Video files on CD-R or CD-RW media, or even on pressed CD-ROM media, but almost no settop player can play the disc. There are a number of reasons DVD-Video players can’t play DVD-Video content from CD media: 1. Checking for CD media is a fallback case after DVD checking for, at which point the players are no longer looking for DVD-Video content 2. It’s simpler and cheaper for players to spin CDs at 1x speed rather than the 9x speed required for DVD-Video content 3. Many players can’t read CD-R discs (see “Is CD-R compatible with DVD?” in <strong>Chapter</strong> 2, “DVD’s Relationship to Other Products and Technologies”).
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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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decoder in order to play a DVD. Mos
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