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Figure 13.3<br />

Media convergence<br />

in the digital age<br />

Chapter 13<br />

room televisions it’s shown on. Multilingual audio tracks and subtitles are<br />

nice, but it’s already possible to put four audio tracks on a laserdisc by using<br />

both channels of analog audio and both channels of digital audio. <strong>DVD</strong>’s<br />

menus and interactivity are an improvement over passive laserdiscs, but<br />

most educators would prefer to make the jump to computers and gain significantly<br />

more power and flexibility.<br />

Laserdisc players maintain advantages over <strong>DVD</strong> players, however. Any<br />

still picture or movie can be accessed almost instantly by entering a fivedigit<br />

frame number on the remote control or, easier yet, by scanning a

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