VD-Video. For some projects I need to author the title as a single sequential PGC title so that I can get TimeTable information back, but for other projects I...
i Ralph<br><br>Thanks for the detailed and very insightful reply in your post. It seems you are way ahead of the pack in developing Enhanced DVD Titles. I know...
he WebDVD stuff is available for free from Microsoft. The code we are developing that supports hotspots on top of the DVD-Video clip could probably be ...
hanks Harry and Ralph for publicly sharing their WebDVD efforts on this board.<br><br>I wd love to hear your comments - ANY - on the flurry of Sonic's ...
ctually there is no bandwidth problem at all with WebDVD, or any of the other variants of "connected DVD" titles. All of these techniques allow the end user to...
he main thing the Web and PC enabled DVDs can offer is the interactivity and flexibility that DVD-Video alone cannot. At the same time, you can still use the...
n the Pioneer DVD-R discussion - Spruce had two<br>units at NAB. They seemed to be very clean finished products and ready to go. Having said that the command...
irst a comment on all the "new" authoring companies at NAB. Pioneer had one of the earliest systems and doesn't generally sell it outside Japan ($$$). JVC had...
idn't spend much time on the Sonic booth but according to visitors to the Spruce booth we were the only ones showing Web DVD - as opposed to talking and had ...
'm an advocate of the concept as my company now creates products that function exactly in this manner. One of the things we do is create PDF based electronic...
ete,<br><br>you didn't mention the Sony DVE1100 was it?...a neat little $400,000 authoring system, when the smoke clears. I walked away from NAB seeing ...
eter,<br><br>I have a Sony DVP S500D that will playback CD-Audio recorded on a CD-R. It's the only set top box I've tried so far that will playback CD-R audio....
here is something in what you say<br>but I think there is a lot of life<br>left in the WebDVD concept yet.<br><br>The "free bandwidth next week" line<br>seems...
es - Sony's system was there - and it starts at<br>"only" 200,000 actually! Interestingly in their Post Production suite away from the show floor Sony also had...
have heard a lot about all these great high end authoring systems and how they get better and better with more options, but I am wondering is there a low end ...
ight now....for the under $10K price point, you really have to be a savvy programmer to author DVD content....as from my experience...that's what it takes to ...
hanks,<br> I will check out pinnacles' site, DVD1000 is not something I have heard of. I have been talking with sonic about DVDit and that is meant more as an...
ot costing as much as your DVD Creator and <br>more than DVDit leaves quite a wide gap!<br><br>If you want something as well as your Creator system then ...
have been paying quite a lot of attention to Astarte and I do think it is rather good. DVDConductor I will have to look into. <br><br>As for encoders while the...
have finished perusing the Astarte DVD site and was impressed with what I saw. I was wondering if anyone has had the opportunity to work these products and...
hat are the implications of these low-cost products (Matrox, Pinnacle) resulting from C-Cube's DVDExplore/DVExpress chips ? Are these systems going to drive...
or the record, Daikin does not make any MPEG 2 encoders. It is a open systems authoring software that allows the user to choose the encoder that best fits ...
orry, Harry, I goofed. Scenarist is authoring software & should not be included in the hardware encoder categories.<br><br>I guess the only way to kick the...
.I<br><br>If DVD1000(and the like) can indeed deliver acceptable quality and author the "must have needs" of a typical corporate sales or training presentation...
art II (Second of 2 Parts)<br><br>I was at NAB and I saw DVD authoring for typical corporate cailber content and special event as completely gone mainstream. ...
few good comments already posted in reply. Here's a few additions:<br><br>1. I wouldn't bet against the high end of C-Cube's<br>chips (OK so the silicon is...
art 1 of 2<br>I think you're looking at this backwards and not seeing the big picture about Impression and the DVD1000 (and the like) systems. They are not ...
art 2 of 2<br>Argue the quality of the video (from a DVD1000 rig) all you want. Most of the quality of the originating source (VHS tape) is not great in the...
nce again many good points. Of course the archiving market will be huge and the existing<br>tools are not needed for most of this work.<br><br>On the authoring...