August Abolins said to Chris Kenward at 01-31-03  13:30
 Subject: V/CD isn't recognised

 AA> On , in a message to Bob Gearhart you
 AA> wrote: 
 CK> Both the Roxio WinOnCD and Ulead do the job, however, the WinOnCD
 CK> resultant V/CD isn't recognised by all DVD players and, on others,
 CK> the sound is really scratchy. Odd indeed.

 AA> It's not so odd as you might think.  Features and capabilities among
 AA> DVD player brands and models can vary greatly.  Only recently for
 AA> instance, DVD players are featuring MP3 support from CD-RW discs.   I
 AA> wouldn't be surprised that some salient subtlety exists among
"VCD" and
 AA> "DVD" recorded formats.  As far as I know, not all VCD formats are
 AA> created equal.

 Absolutely right August.  http://www.vcdhelp.com/  is a web address that
 should be in everyone's book.  Before buying a DVD player you should
 check there, before buying a program to create VCD's you should check
 there. iff you can't understand anything about VCD creation or how to
 find the mostly free tools needed check there, or how to use the tools
 once you find them, check there.  From that you see it's not a light
 reading browse quick site. 

 There is a big fight going on right now similar in ways to the Beta VS
 VHS battles of long ago.  Microsoft, of course, has decided to back a
 different form of DVD creation from the one initially established. Now
 do you buy a drive to burn DVD-R  -RW  or DVD+R +RW and what about
 DVD-ROM, and what player will play what format?  At least all the
 players will play the DVD format used in commercial movie distributions
 which is not used in home DVD burners.  Sony just released a unit that
 would burn both types.  The DVD disk themselves have formatting
 information burnt into them that determines what sort of burner must
 be used with that disk.  It's a big confusion and why I'm still waiting
 to buy a DVD burner.

 And now JVC has thrown a new ball out on the consumers playing court.
 They just recently released a consumer level HDTV camcorder doing the
 following resolutions.

 720p - 1280x720 pixels progressive
 1080i - 1920x1080 pixels interlaced
 1080p - 1920x1080 pixels progressive

 Which will most likely mean everything we are buying today will be the
 4 tracks of tomorrow.  Anyone remember 4 track? 




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