The History of Blue Ray HD DVD
Sony started two projects applying the new diodes: UDO (Ultra Density Optical) and DVR Blue (together with Pioneer), a format of rewritable discs which would eventually become Blu-ray (more specifically, BD-RE).[6] The two formats share several technologies (such as the AV codecs and the laser diode). In February 2002, the project was officially announced as Blu-ray,[7] and the Blu-ray Disc Association was founded by the nine initial members.
The DVD Forum (which was chaired by Toshiba) was deeply split over whether to go with the more expensive blue lasers or not. Although today's Blu-ray Discs appear virtually identical to a standard DVD, when the Blu-ray Discs were initially developed they required a protective caddy to avoid mis-handling by the consumer. (Early CD-Rs also featured a protective caddy for the same purpose.) The Blu-ray prototype's caddy was both expensive and physically different from DVD, posing several problems.[8] In March 2002, the forum voted to approve a proposal endorsed by Warner Bros. and other motion picture studios that involved compressing HD content onto dual-layer DVD-9 discs.[9][10] However, in spite of this decision, the DVD Forum's Steering Committee announced in April that it was pursuing its own blue-laser high-definition solution. In August, Toshiba and NEC announced their competing standard Advanced Optical Disc.[11] It was finally adopted by the DVD forum and renamed to HD DVD the next year,[12] after being voted down twice by some of the Blu-ray group members, and the U.S. Department of Justice making preliminary investigations into the situation.[13][14] The voting rules on abstentions not being counted was changed before HD DVD format was approved.[15][16]
The HD DVD Promotion Group was a group of manufacturers and media studios formed to exchange thoughts and ideas to help promote the format worldwide.[17] Its members comprised Toshiba Corporation as the Chair Company and Secretary, Memory-Tech Corporation and NEC Corporation as Vice-Chair companies, and Sanyo Electric as Auditors; there were 61 general members and 72 associate members in total.[18] The HD DVD promotion group was officially dissolved on March 28, 2008, following Toshiba's announcement on February 19, 2008 that it would no longer develop or manufacture HD DVD players and drives.
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Filming in cold wheather
I have recently come across a problem in which I've encountered when filming in cold wheater. Always read your camera's operating specifications when filming because during cold temperatures, the camera tends to malfunction. Common sense? well a lot of people don't take that into consideration. While your on set, a lot of things are happening all at the same time. And when your busy filming, the last thing you'll like to have are glitches in your frames.
Back in 2007 when I was filming outdoors, the temperature was about -25 celcius everyone was busy trying to set the equipment up. Once we were ready to film, the camera indicated that it needed head cleaning. After bringing it into the building to warm (which was bad for the camera's head) the indicator went away. We brought it back out and finish the shot.
During the capture, I noticed glitches in the frames during the part where the indicator appeared, luckily there were enough coverage to not use those shots.
So when your filming, just remember to keep your camera in top notch condition and take into consideration of everything your camera needs to operate including temperature. Labels: camera operation cold wheater
DVD to MPG with MPEG Streamclip tutorial
Ever needed to convert a DVD-Video to AVI MPG WMV or MOV? There is a software name Streamclip or Squared 5. It is a freeware compatible with both Mac and PCs. Once downloaded and installed, see below for instructions on how to convert.1) First make sure you have Quicktime Alternative installed.2) Place the DVD video in your DVD drive (note that your video cannot be copyright encrypted)3) Open Streaclip3) Go to file and select open files"4) Select the video_ts folder5) you will see several files in there depending on each DVD. You may have to select all of them or specific ones. Normally you will select the largest files ("VTS_0_1" right click go to "view" and "details") hold "ctrl" to select the files. Select open6) Confirm the total time of the movie at the bottom right of the software under the name "output" If it is shorter, and you've scrubbed through it and realize that your movie is missing some scenes, you'll have to re-select the files and re-open them again.7) Sometimes Streamclip will prompt you if you want to fix timecode breaks, always fix them or your audio will not be in sync.8) Select file and scroll down to "convert to MPG"9) Choose a file where you want to save the videoNote the files you should select are: named "VTS_01_0" normally the "VIDEO_TS" is not the movie, a typical situation for file selection are the "VTS_01_0" "VTS_01_1" "VTS_01_2" "VTS_01_3" files, they will normally be around 2gb in size and the last file will be several hundred MB. All DVDs contain the same files. The more you play around with these files the better you understand how they're organized and work.You can contact us at 416-850-7976 for more information or visit our website.Labels: dvd to mpg avi wmv mov file convert transfer streamclip squared 5
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Dear Clients,Please see below for our Holiday Christmas hours:OpenMonday to Friday: 10:30am to 6:00pmClosed Saturday & SundayDecember 22, 2008 to January 2, 2009Labels: toronto video transfer dvd cd duplication video production
