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It won't be long before expressions like, 'Honey, don't forget to tape American Idol for me!' and 'Let's go to the videotape' fade as disc- and hard-drive-based recording triumphs over [...]

Duplication companies seem to have their own unique approaches to this business. On one end of the spectrum are the companies that primarily serve as format converters, with abilities to [...]

Once you've got your in-cab DVD player you'll be needing something to watch. And what better way to unwind after a stressful day on the road than the recently re-released [...]

Probe Research predicts Internet-telephony calls will jump from 2.5 billion minutes last year to 4 billion this year. --ZDNET, June 12, 2000 Sales of DVD players more than quadrupled last [...]

Digital video may seem like good business, but hire a pro The so-called digital age, with its flavors of streaming video, CDs and DVDs, offers unprecedented ways to make both [...]

Should movie studios be able to control how consumers use playback devices to watch video on demand? The Motion Picture Association of America, a trade group representing major movie studios, [...]

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is moving forward with a plan to offer Academy members DVD players free of charge that will play specially encrypted DVD screeners. […]

It's been two years since the Ephrata (Pa.) Public Library began lending Roku devices--digital video players that people plug into their televisions so they can view on a larger screen [...]

Interactive video disc systems are being used successfully in a wide range of training and other information providing applications, but the advantages are somewhat tempered by the current high production cost. Benefits of interactive video include decreased training time, improved learning retention, improved trainee confidence, and, in one example, lower direct and time costs than relying on outside production. Successful use of interactive video by Ford Motor Co, Xerox Corp, and Massachusetts Life Insurance Co is described. Creating a successful interactive video program requires a substantial investment in writing and planning, with consideration of the needs of both trainers and trainees. Production costs per minute range from $1,500 to $2,000 and up. The production process is tedious and time-consuming.

A successful design for a videodisc training application requires a cooperative effort on the part of instructional designers, programmers, and audio-visual technicians. The role of the instructional designer is to create the learning objectives of the videodisc, and to model the types of skills learned in the course after the types of tasks the learner will be expected to perform after the training is over. Audio-visual designers should exploit the possibilities of videodiscs, and not simply fall back on transferring linear video programs into the videodisc medium. The role of the computer programmer is to help create a videodisc that is truly interactive. The goal of the videodisc developer is to create a program whose workings are transparent to the user.

My Oppo BDP-83 player loads most Blu-ray Discs in less than 30 seconds, but each of the nine Star Wars: The Complete Saga discs takes nearly 90 seconds. Oppo's tech [...]

Being a subscriber for more than 10 years, I have seen the letters you've received telling you that after buying a Blu-ray player, the viewer wasn't impressed with the picture [...]

Q. My DVD player and satellite receiver are hooked up to separate inputs on my plasma TV. The picture adjustments can be customized for each input on the set, and [...]

Q. I just bought a Toshiba HD-A2 HD DVD player and am getting 1080i-format video through a direct HDMI hookup to my TV. However, my receiver doesn't have HDMI switching. [...]

Q I've found that many DVD players are capable of displaying good quality pictures on TV from a folder of JPEG images burnt to a CD. However, the problem is […]

Q I have a DVD player which claims to be compatible with PhotoCDs. However, although it plays CDs I have burned myself, containing my digital snaps in JPEG format, the […]

The advantages of watching movies at home on DVD are enumerated and in particular the pause facility, which allows for alternate chores to be completed before resuming the show is highlighted.

Q. For listening to music, which performs better: a CD player or a DVD player? And why are DVD players so slow in detecting which sort of disc has been [...]

No sooner had the advance copies of the Star Wars' Trilogy arrived at our office for review than I heard complaints from the lucky recipients (I wasn't one of them [...]

Only 214 members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have told the Academy that they do not want to receive the encrypted DVD players that Dolby subsidiary […]

The basic borne DVD player has become a fairly standard item. Hook it up to your TV (preferably a wide-screen set so you can get the panoramic DVD image) and […]

Video game consoles that play DVD movies as well as vid games might have more of an impact on future DVD purchases than most industry observers had thought, according to […]

National Training Fund officials Fillippini, Carlough, and Wittler discuss promising opportunities coming to sheet-metal trainees because of energy-conservation retrofitting needs, and innovative ways of training them for new technology, such as by use of video-discs.