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• 400 DVD-Video titles in Europe (135 movie and music titles) • 3,000 DVD-Video titles in the United States (2,000 movie and music titles) • 7.2 million DVD-Video discs purchased • 1999 • 4,019,000 DVD-Video players shipped in the United States (an installed base of 5,457,000) • Over 6,300 DVD-Video titles in the United States • About 26 million DVD-ROM drives worldwide • About 75 DVD-ROM titles available in the United States • 2000 General DVD 17 • 8.5 million DVD-Video players shipped in the United States (an installed base of 13,922,000) • About 46 million DVD-ROM drives worldwide • Over 10,000 DVD-Video titles available in the United States • Belgium: An installed base of 100 thousand • France: An installed base of 1.2 million • Germany: An installed base of 1.2 million • Italy: An installed base of 360 thousand • Netherlands: An installed base of 200 thousand • Spain: An installed base of 300 thousand • Sweden: An installed base of 120 thousand • Switzerland: An installed base of 250 thousand • UK: An installed base of 1 million • 2001 • 12.7 million DVD-Video players shipped in the United States (An installed base of 26,629,000) • Over 45 million DVD-ROM drives in the United States • Over 90 million DVD-ROM drives worldwide • UK: An installed base of 3 million
18 Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About DVD • 2002 • 17 million DVD-Video players shipped in the United States (an installed base of 43,718,000) • Over 75 million DVD-ROM drives in the United States • Over 140 million DVD-ROM drives worldwide For comparison, in 1997 about 700 million audio CD players and 160 million CD-ROM drives were in use worldwide. That same year 1.2 billion CD-ROMs were shipped worldwide with about 46,000 different titles available. About 80 million VCRs were owned in the United States (89 percent of households), with about 400 million worldwide, and 110,000 VCRs shipped in the first two years after their release. Nearly 16 million VCRs were shipped in 1998. In 2000, about 270 million TVs were owned in the United States, with 1.3 billion worldwide. When DVDs came out in 1997, under 3 million laserdisc players were being used in the United States. For the latest U.S. player sales statistics, see the CEA page at The Digital Bits. Other DVD statistics and forecasts can be found at IRMA, Media- Line, and Twice. Industry analyses and forecasts can be purchased from Adams Media Research, the British Video Association, Cahners In-stat, eBrain, IDC, Screen Digest, Understanding & Solutions, and others. What Are Regional Codes, Country Codes, or Zone Locks? Motion picture studios want to control the home release of movies in different countries because theater releases aren’t simultaneous (a movie may come out on video in the United States when it’s just hitting screens in Europe). Also, studios sell distribution rights to different foreign distributors in order to guarantee an exclusive market. Therefore, they required that the DVD standard include codes to prevent the playback of certain discs in certain geographical regions. Each player is given a code for the region in which it’s sold and will refuse to play discs that are not coded for its region. This means that a disc bought in one country may not play on a player bought in another country. Some people believe that region codes are an illegal restraint of trade, but no legal cases have established this. Regional codes are entirely optional for the disc maker to include. Discs without region locks will play on any player in any country. It’s not an encryption system; it’s just one byte of information on the disc that the player checks. Some studios originally announced that only their new releases would have regional codes, but so far almost all Hollywood releases play in only one region. Region codes are also a permanent part of the disc, and they won’t unlock after a period of time. Region codes don’t apply to DVD-Audio, DVD-ROM, or recordable DVDs.
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Page 10 and 11: Contents ix Chapter 2 DVD’s Relat
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Page 14 and 15: Preface In 1996, when those of us i
Page 16 and 17: What Is DVD? Chapter 1 General DVD
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Page 40 and 41: General DVD 25 High-Bandwidth Digit
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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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What DVD-ROM Formatting Tools Are A
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• Ability to create a bootable di
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• Media100 (www.media100.com) •
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• Dolby (www.dolby.com) • DP569
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• INMS (Integrated Network Master
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• Apple (www.apple.com) • DVD S
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• Microboards (www.microboards.co
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• Sonic Solutions (www.sonic.com)
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• [A] Abbey Road Interactive (www
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DVD Production 159 • [A] Cut & Co
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• [A] EagleVision (www.eaglevisio
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DVD Production 163 • [R] IPC Comm
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DVD Production 165 • [A] Oasis Te
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• [R] Sonopress (www.sonopress.de
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DVD Production 171 The only known p
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DVD Production 173 John Beale has w
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Beware of e-mail and ads touting DV
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DVD Production 177 imported into a
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Chapter 6 Miscellaneous Who Invente
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Matsushita, CNETT, and IRT for $25,
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• GPX/Yorx: DVD-Video players •
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Miscellaneous 185 • NAD: DVD-Vide
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• Thomson (RCA/G.E./Proscan/Fergu
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Miscellaneous 189 • Delos Interna
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Miscellaneous 191 • Music Video D
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• Valley Media (distributor) •
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Miscellaneous 195 • Hyundai: DVD
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• Verbatim Australia (ActiveMedia
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• Multimedia 2000 (aka M-2K, form
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• Disc and Picture Company (Austr
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• Sony Music Direct • Stardust
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• Region Free DVD www.regionfreed
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March 2003 There are now at least 5
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Notation and Units Chapter 7 Leftov
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Martin Leese Dana Parker Eric Smith
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Note: Boldface numbers indicate tab
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DVD-RW, 126-127 DVD�R, 128-129 DV
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DVD Audio Recording (DVD AR), 1 DVD
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InterVideo, 119 invention of DVD, 1
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Pioneer, 7, 14, 26, 27, 29, 42, 65,
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second generation DVD, 38-39 secure
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video encoding tools, 143-147 Video
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