Re: CD Production Advice

[Matt Ion <soundy -at- ROGERS -dot- WAVE -dot- CA>]

On Thu, 11 Sep 1997 07:05:59 -0500, Pat Gantt wrote:

>Need a clarification...
>DVD?
>
>Think I know what they are...
>Could someone please go into more detail
>re: DVD?

The proper name is "Digital Versatile Disc", although most consumers (and
unfortuantely, most of those who sell to Joe Consumer) replace the
"versatile" with "video", since that seems to be their major commercial
use so far: as a movie-distribution medium.

They're similar in concept to a CD, but designed to hold several
gigglebytes of data and, ultimately, be rewritable... hence the
"versatile".  You could use them for video, for several hours' worth of
music, for computer data storage... or theoretically any combination of
all of the above (you CAN put both standard audio tracks and a data track
on a CD/CD-ROM, but it's relatively limited - the data must all be in
"track 1", and that track will play back gibberish on an audio player).

But as noted, right now the big push is to get them out there as a video
medium.  The quality is, of course, comparable to Laserdisc (with support
for HDTV, natch) with full digital audio, but the disc itself is much
smaller, does not need to use both sides, and again as noted, the players
are destined to be far more flexible.


 Your friend and mine,
 Matt
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