Specification Sheet
Macintosh PowerBook DVD-Video Kit
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Home users will enjoy the superb video and audio of the movies now being released on DVD-Video discs. And as more educational and entertainment titles become available on DVD discs, you and your children will be able to view more exciting multimedia adventures than ever before.
About DVD technology
Whether you need the benefits of high-capacity DVD-ROM storage or want to enjoy your favorite DVD movies wherever you are, the Macintosh PowerBook DVD-Video Kit brings you the best of the exciting new DVD technology.
DVD (which stands for “digital video disc” or “digital versatile disc”) technology offers a dramatic increase in storage capacity over CD technology. In fact, a single DVD disc can hold the same amount of data that would fill as many as 25 CD-ROMs.
DVD-Video is the exciting offspring of the laserdisc format long favored by movie buffs, educators, and multimedia professionals. It makes it possible to put outstanding video and audio on discs the size of standard CD-ROMs. DVD-Video discs feature state-of-the-art MPEG-2–encoded video and Dolby Digital audio.
A DVD-Video disc not only can play back movies as a VCR does, but can also provide advanced features such as subtitles, captions, audio tracks in different languages, a director’s narration, multiple viewing angles, and scene preview functions. And different locations on a DVD movie disc can be accessed immediately, unlike with videotape.
Some DVD-Video discs even contain versions of the movie in both pan-and-scan (full screen) and letterbox (original theatrical aspect ratio) viewing formats. Some have a director’s cut version with footage not contained in the original theatrical release. On discs that support MPAA rating codes, parents and teachers can limit access to films at or below a certain rating.
Apple DVD Player software
Apple DVD Player software, based on Apple’s award-winning QuickTime 3 technology, gives you easy access to basic functions like start, stop, and play, in addition to advanced features such as progressive slow motion, step frame, language preferences, subtitles, and multiple- angle viewing. You can access these features via an intuitive, orb-shaped on-screen controller, menu commands, or keyboard shortcuts.
The Apple DVD Player also allows you to pick up right where you have left off in a movie if you need to take a break. Simply put your PowerBook into sleep mode or select Stop and then Quit from the DVD Player menu. You can even shut your system down. When you start the DVD Player later, just select Play and you’re right back at the scene where you left off.
