| Below is a list of articles with the most recent ones listed first. |
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Digital Video - part 1 by MDofPC |
Topic: Digital Video |
| The recording and editing of sound has long been in the domain of the PC, but doing the same with moving video has only recently gained acceptance as a mainstream PC application. In the past, digital video work was limited to a small group of specialist users, such as multimedia developers and profe... |
| Published: Thursday 26 April, 2007 |
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Digital Video - part 10 by MDofPC |
Topic: Digital Video |
| The VideoCD format was created to satisfy the demands of both the entertainment and information publishing worlds. The aim was to provide a format capable of delivering their content on an interactive medium that was inexpensive to replicate, supported full-screen, full-motion video, and which worke... |
| Published: Thursday 26 April, 2007 |
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Digital Video - part 11 by MDofPC |
Topic: Digital Video |
| With over 20 million households owning VCD payers by the late 1990s, it is unsurprising that China was instrumental in the development of a successor to the VCD format. The first of three independent efforts to bring the next-generation VCD standard to the Chinese market started in 1997. C-Cube Micr... |
| Published: Thursday 26 April, 2007 |
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Digital Video - part 12 by MDofPC |
Topic: Digital Video |
| If SVCD can be viewed as format that seeks to combine the advantages of DVD quality with the cheapness of writable CD media, then miniDVD can be viewed in a similar light. The miniDVD format goes the whole hog though - it is DVD on CD media. |
| Published: Thursday 26 April, 2007 |
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Digital Video - part 13 by MDofPC |
Topic: Digital Video |
| In the late 1990s a new generation of entirely digital cameras and camcorders emerged, and with it a new video format, Digital Video (DV). The DV cassette is a small, metal-oxide tape, which is about three-quarters the size of a DAT, and confers the significant advantage of allowing the entire video... |
| Published: Thursday 26 April, 2007 |
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Digital Video - part 14 by MDofPC |
Topic: Digital Video |
| For years, the broadcasting and computer industries have proclaimed that "convergence" was just around the corner. Both have had different things in mind, of course, and each has claimed to be the driving force behind the must-have new services that were about to change the consumer's life. |
| Published: Thursday 26 April, 2007 |
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Digital Video - part 15 by MDofPC |
Topic: Digital Video |
| In Europe the Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) project was set up in 1993 and came from a market led perception that digital broadcasting to the home needed technical standards of transmission to avoid the anarchy of proprietary boxes which has developed in analogue satellite transmission. |
| Published: Thursday 26 April, 2007 |
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Digital Video - part 16 by MDofPC |
Topic: Digital Video |
| The standard sound format for European digital television comes in the form of MPEG-2 Stereo. This system can carry two channels of CD quality digital audio. The quality of audio this delivers is little different to that possible using the NICAM Stereo Audio system for digital stereo sound with used... |
| Published: Thursday 26 April, 2007 |
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Digital Video - part 17 by MDofPC |
Topic: Digital Video |
| Japan had pioneered HDTV for decades with an analogue implementation. However, both it and a similar attempt in Europe ultimately failed. Japan again took the lead in digital HDTV, this time along with the USA, who began digital HDTV transmissions as early as 1999, as part of a broader introduction ... |
| Published: Thursday 26 April, 2007 |
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Digital Video - part 18 by MDofPC |
Topic: Digital Video |
| Internet-based TV seems inevitable because the potential services are compelling, and because the newcomers to broadcasting from the computer industry appear keen to drive it that way. Traditional broadcasters are likely to simulcast on the Net in the next few years, as many radio stations do today.... |
| Published: Thursday 26 April, 2007 |
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