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Miscellaneous 191 • Music Video Distributors (distributor) • N2K Music • Navarre (distributor) • NET TEN (distributor) • Nettwerk Productions • New Horizons Home Video • New Line (Warner) • New Video Group • New Vision • New York Entertainment • NuTech Digital (adult) • October Films (Universal) • Opera World • Orion Pictures (MGM, some older DVD titles distributed by Image and Criterion) • Overseas Filmgroup (distributor, partner with Image) • Pacific Digital • Palm Pictures • Panasonic Interactive Media (defunct) • Panorama • Paramount Home Video (owned by Viacom) • Parasol • Passport Video • Phantom Video • Picture This Home Video • Pioneer Entertainment (distributor) • Platinum • Playboy Home Video • PM Entertainment • Polygram (Philips partner) • Pony Canyon (Japan) • PPI Entertainment • Private Media Group (adult) • Pro7 Home Entertainment (Germany) • Program Power • Real Entertainment • Red Distribution (distributor) • Renegade
192 Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About DVD • Republic Pictures (defunct, distributed by Artisan) • Rhino Home Video • Roadshow Entertainment (Australia) • Roan Group • Rykodisc • Samsung Entertainment Group • Shanachie • Showtime • Simitar Entertainment • Sierra Vista Entertainment (Innovacom) • Silver Screen • SlingShot (acquired Lumivision titles) • Sony Music Entertainment • Sony Pictures (Columbia, Epic, Sony Music, Sony Wonder, TriStar) • Sony Wonder (kids) • Steeplechase • Sterling Home Entertainment • Super Digital Media • SyCoNet.com (distributor, anime) • Synapse Films • Tai Seng • Technicolor (distributor and replicator) • Tempe Entertainment • Thakral (distributor; Hong Kong, China) • Toho (Japan) • Tone Home Video • Toshiba EMI • Touchstone (Disney) • Trimark Pictures • Troma Entertainment • Turner Home Entertainment • Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment • Unapix Entertainment • United American • United Artists (MGM) • Universal Studios Home Video (owned by Seagram) • USA • U.S. Laser
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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know
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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know
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DEDICATION This book is dedicated t
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For more information about this tit
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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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tion Issues?” for CSS info). Newe
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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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mance are positive, although if you
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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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players, 10-bit video players, or p
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scheduled to arrive in time for Chr
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“Will I Have Problems Connecting
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Periodic alignment of the pickup he
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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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• Gladiator Stunning surround aud
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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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The interesting thing many people d
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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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DVD Technical Details 97 TVs. Some
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DVD Technical Details 99 tion is no
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nels down to two, DVD-Audio include
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DVD Technical Details 103 MPEG-1 an
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DVD Technical Details 105 sound may
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oadcast TV audio, digital PCM audio
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ing are accomplished: Different PGC
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NOTE: 2-3 pulldown is the same term
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TABLE 3-2 HD-DVD Proposals Chapter
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Can I Play DVD Movies on My Compute
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decoder in order to play a DVD. Mos
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DVDs and Computers 119 log overlay,
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TABLE 4-1 DVD and CD speed ratings
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of them succeeds or if they end up
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DVDs and Computers 125 in addition
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NOTE: The original Apple SuperDrive
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mat, which held 3 billion bytes (2.
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Why Can’t I Play Movies Copied to
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One solution is the VideoLAN projec
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cumvention. On January 24, 16-year
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The .IFO files contain menus and ot
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Chapter 5 DVD Production DVD produc
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Page 162 and 163: • Dolby (www.dolby.com) • DP569
Page 164 and 165: • INMS (Integrated Network Master
Page 166 and 167: • Apple (www.apple.com) • DVD S
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Page 170 and 171: • Sonic Solutions (www.sonic.com)
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Page 174 and 175: DVD Production 159 • [A] Cut & Co
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Page 182 and 183: • [R] Sonopress (www.sonopress.de
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Page 190 and 191: Beware of e-mail and ads touting DV
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Page 194 and 195: Chapter 6 Miscellaneous Who Invente
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Page 200 and 201: Miscellaneous 185 • NAD: DVD-Vide
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Page 204 and 205: Miscellaneous 189 • Delos Interna
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Page 210 and 211: Miscellaneous 195 • Hyundai: DVD
Page 212 and 213: • Verbatim Australia (ActiveMedia
Page 214 and 215: • Multimedia 2000 (aka M-2K, form
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Page 218 and 219: • Sony Music Direct • Stardust
Page 220 and 221: • Region Free DVD www.regionfreed
Page 222 and 223: March 2003 There are now at least 5
Page 224 and 225: Notation and Units Chapter 7 Leftov
Page 226 and 227: Martin Leese Dana Parker Eric Smith
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Page 230 and 231: DVD-RW, 126-127 DVD�R, 128-129 DV
Page 232 and 233: DVD Audio Recording (DVD AR), 1 DVD
Page 234 and 235: InterVideo, 119 invention of DVD, 1
Page 236 and 237: Pioneer, 7, 14, 26, 27, 29, 42, 65,
Page 238 and 239: second generation DVD, 38-39 secure
Page 240 and 241: video encoding tools, 143-147 Video
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