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Media
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| Updated October 27, 2006 DVD
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Lost: The Complete Second Season Touchstone Television
DVD camcorders combine the versatile capabilities of a camcorder with the unbeatable convenience of DVD media. Because these machines record directly on mini DVD media instead of using camcorder tapes, viewing your footage on a big screen is as simple as taking the disc out of the camcorder and putting it in a DVD player. There's never any need to copy the footage to tape or connect your camcorder to the TV with messy cables For the home videographer, DVD camcorders and mini DVD media represent a major technological leap forward. Mini DVD media can be played in virtually any home DVD player or computer DVD drive. ArsTechnica:
New Chip to Combat DVD Piracy The company hopes that it will eventually be possible for playback devices to read the chip and then look at the content on a disc and determine if they are pirated. Because the COD information is disc-specific, movies could be printed in lots that are authorized for specific discs. The technology is promising on two levels. It would be possible to scan hundreds of DVD boxes at a time, which could be useful for large retailers and warehouse operators. As a supply-chain tool to weed out pirated materials, this COD technology has much promise.
DVDs consisting of nothing more than images of cavorting cats are flying off the shelves in Japan thanks to a largely female customer base. Demand for "Meow! The Kitty Movie" has sold more than 80,000 copies since its July 22 release. In the specialty program market, selling 5000 copies is sufficient to make a title a hit. Purchasers have mainly been women in their 20s and 30s who reportedly find the images soothing after a long day in the office. The distributor says it expects sales to eventually exceed 100,000 copies. ContactMusic.com: Massive Raid on DVD Bootleggers in New York Some 40,000 bootleg DVDs and the equipment used to produce them were confiscated during raids in New York. The Motion Picture Association of America and the Recording Industry Association of America worked with local police in investigating the source of the pirated movies, many of which that have not been officially released
DVD movie shipments in Japan rose 11.6% on the year to a record 150.8 billion yen during the January-June period, the Japan Video Software Association reported. Overall shipments of video software rose 4.6% to 154.64 billion yen. While shipments of DVD titles, which accounted for 98% of overall video software shipments in terms of value, increased solidly, those of videocassettes plunged 69.6% to 3.84 billion yen. Shipments to video rental stores paint a similar picture, with a 48.9% jump for DVDs and a 73.7% drop for videocassettes.
A market research firm predicts that by 2010 about 22 million in-car DVD systems will be entertaining passengers worldwide. DVD options have expanded to both the front and rear of sedans, wagons, and SUVs. They can be factory-installed to double as a navigation system or dealer-installed to feature customized options such as satellite TV. All of a DVD system's components connect to a control center, which is sometimes enclosed in a hideaway box (usually stowed under the front passenger seat) or, increasingly, built into the dash. A DVD system with multi zone capability allows more inputs and outputs so that other devices, such as video game consoles, can also be used and multiple sound sources can play simultaneously. The audio can be heard either through the vehicle's speaker system or (as parents often prefer) through headphones. You can even add an amplified subwoofer to get surround sound in your vehicle. In-car DVD entertainment systems originally came with factory-installed fold-down overhead monitors. They range from 6 to 15 inches, and their overhead location is ideal for minivans, providing easy viewing for rear-seat passengers. end
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