VCD (Video Compact Disc) is a CD that contains moving pictures and sound. VCD share many similarities with regular audio/music CDs. A VCD can hold up to 74/80 minutes on 650MB/700MB CDs respectively of full-motion video along with quality stereo sound. VCDs use a compression standard called MPEG to store the video and audio. A [...]
How do I make my DVD drive region free (remove region codes/country codes/zone locks)?
Use DVD Ghost to make your region locked DVD drive and your software player region free. You can also “patch” your DVD drives firmware, you find patched DVD drives firmwareshere (freeware but it may be a bit tricky and [...]
Because VCD files use an MPEG-1 format very similar to the MPEG-1 allowed by DVD, most times it’s a simple matter of extracting the MPEG-1 files and using them in a DVD authoring program.
However, please note this simple method requires cooperation with your DVD player as the sequence headers and GOP lengths of VCD are [...]
Due to increasing price of a key material in our DVDs and Blu-ray Discs called polycarbonate, the price of optical media could be rising this year.
Prices of DVD have reportedly been on the rise, but Taiwan-based media makers have yet to adjust prices to reflect the rise in costs. Digitimes reports that [...]
Region coding is a controversial system enforced by the MPAA (Motion Picture Association Of America) that controls the distribution of DVDs in World Markets based on feature film release dates and other factors.
Sydney, Australia last week, the contents of an alleged sale of pirated products, men were found guilty. The males, called Lin Yonghong (transliteration Yong Hong Lin), he has one in Sydney to open a shop selling audio-visual products. Sydney District Court last week against the criminals reduction of 31 charges of 16, and found it [...]
The Moscow 24, said from the beginning of this year to now has seized about 100,000 pirated optical discs.
Bureau released data show that from the beginning of this year, relevant departments of the various commodity trading places in the 200 checks were found in more than 400 cases, including criminal acts of copyright infringement including, [...]
Illegal downloading of music, movies and other audio/visual piracy threat to the European Employment.
According to the Italian ANSA news, the famous consulting company in the World Intellectual Property Day Tera Consultants released a report, in 2008, through the Internet, illegal copying and downloading music, movies and other audiovisual piracy losses related industries in Europe is [...]
First, you have to know the difference between passive speaker and active speaker.
Active Speakers, usually refers to speakers with power amplifiers, such as multimedia computer speakers, active low speakers, as well as some new home theater active speaker and so on. Active Speaker as built-in amplifier, the user need not consider the problem with the [...]
At the back of DVD player after a corner-type terminal, the upper marked OPTICAL, this is the optical output terminal. Fiber connection can achieve electrical isolation, to prevent digital noise transmitted through the ground, helping improve the DAC (digital analog converter) and SCR (S / N).