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| Registered: December 10, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 3,004 |
| | Posted: | | | | I'm not the one trying to redefine DVD to be any disc with video on it. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 21,610 |
| | Posted: | | | | Here's the difference Ace, Ken has decided for our purposes, rightly that DVD, BD and HD are not different formats but cousins as it were . While the Rules specifically address your comment, so no matter what you are still wrong.. I just find it very amusing, except that your comment was out of line and some might have taken it as encouragement to ignore the Rules. In short, my friend, bad form.
Skip | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!!
CBE, MBE, MoA and proud of it.
Outta here
Billy Video |
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| Registered: March 15, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 5,459 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Ken Cole: Quote:
Officially DVD stands for nothing. Studios wanted Digital Video Disc while the computer folk wanted Digital Versatile Disc. So in the end, they agreed it would be simply "DVD" - not an acronym. That's interesting. I just happened to notice on the copyright notice of a film I was watching over the weekend that it actually contained the words "the contents of this digital versatile disc..." Quoting 8ballMax: Quote:
Er, yet it is. DVD is an optical medium for Digital Video storage. Blu-Ray is and optical medium for Digital Video storage. One stores Hi-Definition Video whilst the other stores Standard Definition Video. Apples and oranges. What's the big deal? Fine. In that case, start playing your bluray discs in your DVD player, let me know how far you get... And what about Video CD - that's an optical medium for video storage too. Shall we start profiling those too? After all, they're still DVDs.  |
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| Registered: March 29, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 4,479 |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 21,610 |
| | Posted: | | | | North: Your brilliamce is simply blinding.   Skip | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!!
CBE, MBE, MoA and proud of it.
Outta here
Billy Video |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 3,197 |
| | Posted: | | | | HD DVD might be called a high density DVD, after all it has DVD in the name and was developed by the DVD Forum. But I doubt anyone from the Blu-ray camp would like their format to be called DVD... | | | | First registered: February 15, 2002 |
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| Registered: March 25, 2007 | | Posts: 41 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Ace_of_Sevens: Quote:
Forgot to mention, Closed-captioning is an NTSC feature. It needs to vanish on PAL & HD discs. That is not correct. While CC was originally part of the analog video stream (line 21), it has also been ported over to the digital domain. See here for more info: http://www.pixeltools.com/tech_tip_closed_captioning.html Many HD broadcasts have embedded CC signals, but there are also quite a number of Fox BDs that have closed captioning. You could also embed CC into European HD streams. I would totally appreciate it if people were to check their facts before making requests. |
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| Registered: April 14, 2007 | | Posts: 415 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Ken Cole: Quote:
Another tidbit: Very early versions of DVD Profiler included a menu option under Tools - "DVD Stands For?", to which the program would respond "...DVD Stands for D___ V___ D___", filled with random words starting with D, V, and D. So, you might get "The alien abductors don't want you to know that DVD stands for Dynamic Visual Domination", or something that makes even less sense. 
*Updated with an example from version 0.9.0, which still runs fine under current OSes.  Ken, we need this back in the program |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 |  Posts: 2,337 |
| | Posted: | | | | I'm trying to figure out how Blu-ray U-control should be implemented. As I see it, there can be several options you can set under U-control and there are no "standard" expressions for them. I've seen:
Motion Comics, Scene Explorer, PiP, Director's Notebook, Set Visits, Concept Art Gallery, but I believe there are much more out there.
Would it be a good idea to have a check box for U-Control and under it a free type field (With enough space for once!!) to list which options you can set with U-Control. Any ideas? |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 3,197 |
| | Posted: | | | | U-Control is specific for Universal so that won't fly, I would prefer the general term PiP features (picture in picture). If there are other (none PiP) features, you can use the regular check boxes, or the other field. I don't think we need another free text field. | | | | First registered: February 15, 2002 |
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| Registered: April 12, 2007 |  Posts: 4 |
| | Posted: | | | | If BD is DVD, so would BD and DVD be VHS, that's correct.
And, by the way, what about Laser Disks? Are they DVDs or CDs?
As CD means Compact Disc, a BD would also be a CD.
So, generalizing as "insert disc" would be fine for the dialogue, but renaming the program wouldn't be a good idea. And if: what should it be called?
"Profiler for different digital home video media"?
Of, we could go with "DVM-Profiler", DVM standing for "Digital Video Media".
Perhaps I should claim copyright to that abbreviation? |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 3,197 |
| | Posted: | | | | No, laserdiscs are vinyl, they're analogue.  | | | | First registered: February 15, 2002 |
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| Registered: April 13, 2007 | | Posts: 23 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting 8ballMax: Quote:
Quoting Ace_of_Sevens:
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One more thing: the dialog boxes make reference to DVDs in DVD drives, even when it isn't actually a DVD.
Although more advanced, a Blu-Ray disc is still a DVD (Digital Video Disc) at the end of the day. Ahhhh, yet one MORE reason why I wish HD-DVD had prevailed! The nomenclature would have been just fine. |
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