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• Sony Music Direct • Stardust DVD (Puerto Rico) • Starship Industries • SublimeDigital.com (players and drives) • SVS (UK, region 2) • Swinging Planet (UK, cult video; region 2) • TLA Video • Trans World Entertainment (TWEC) • Universe of Entertainment (Switzerland) • VideoCave • VideoLtd.com • Virgin Megastore • Xchangecity (trade DVDs with other members) • (Disclosure: Some of the links above include affiliate program information that may result in a commission to Jim.) Where Can I Buy Blank Recordable DVDs? Important note: With blank DVDs the adage “you get what you pay for” is usually true. Cheaper discs are more likely to produce errors when burning and are less compatible with players. • 800 CDR • Buy-DVD-R.com • CD-DVD-Supplies.com • CD-Recordable.com • J&R Electronics • Meritline.com • Memorex • Pro Tape Northwest • Shop4tech.com Where Can I Get More Information About DVD? A Few of the Top DVD Info Sites Miscellaneous 203 • Robert’s DVD Info (tons of links to news articles and other pages, but not updated for over a year) • DVDPhD www.dvdphd.com (DVD tech support)
204 Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About DVD • The Digital Bits www.thedigitalbits.com (top DVD news site) • DVDFile www.dvdfile.com (another good DVD news site) • DVD Review www.dvdreview.com (DVD news and production information) • DVDAnswers www.dvdanswers.com (general DVD info site) • Home Theater Forum www.hometheaterforum.com (general DVD discussions) • TheDVDPlayer www.thedvdplayer.com (immense collection of links to other DVD pages) • Chad Fogg’s DVD technical notes www.mpeg.org/�tristan/MPEG/DVD/ (from 1996) • Quantel Digital Fact Book (digital video info and glossary) www.quantel.com/dfb • DVD for not-so-Dummies, from Technicolor www.technicolor.com/services/DVD2000v1.pdf • DVD White Papers, from Sonic Solutions www.sonic.com/tech_whitepapers.html • Disctronics’ (Graham Sharpless’s) DVD Technology pages www.discusa.com/dvd/dvdmain.htm • Tristan’s MPEG Pointers and Resources www.mpeg.org • DVD discussion list. Send “subscribe DVD-L �your name�” to listserv@listserv.temple.edu • For details on YUV, RGB, YCbCr, etc., read Charles Poynton’s Color FAQ (or buy his book). DVD Utilities and Region-Free Information (See “What Are ‘Regional Codes,’ ‘Country Codes,’ or ‘Zone Locks’?” in <strong>Chapter</strong> 1 for more information about regions.) • DVD Infomatrix www.inmatrix.com (a wealth of information about DVD PCs) • MPEGX www.mpegx.com (PC utilities for video and audio, more) • DVDSoft.net www.dvdsoft.net (PC utilities, more) • Doom9 www.doom9.net (PC utilities for DVD backup) • Visual Domain www.visualdomain.net (PC utilities, including Drive Info) • DVDCity www.dvdcity.com/codefree/codefree-dvd-info.html (codefree DVD player FAQ) • Code Free DVD www.codefreedvd.com (region-free DVD players)
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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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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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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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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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DVDs and Computers 125 in addition
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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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What DVD-ROM Formatting Tools Are A
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• Dolby (www.dolby.com) • DP569
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Page 210 and 211: Miscellaneous 195 • Hyundai: DVD
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Page 238 and 239: second generation DVD, 38-39 secure
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