2.DVD-Video
2.1.General
DVD-Video is a new media for the distribution of home videos. The digital nature of this new media offers several new features to the consumer.
Amongst those features are:
●High video quality based on MPEG2 compression and the ability to playback both aspect ratios of 4:3 and 16:9.
●A DVD-Video can hold up to 8 different audio tracks (streams). Each track can be used for a different language. It can also be utilised for high quality stereo audio with a resolution of 16 bit and 48 kHz, or for theatre quality surround audio, like Dolby Digital AC-3.
●Up to 32 different streams of subtitles can be placed on a DVD-Video, used as language subtitles, as menu highlights or as instructions for interactive functions.
●Digital copy protection via CSS and analogue copy protection via Macrovision.
●Multibranching is another feature of DVD- Video that simply offers the possibility to playback one title with different parts of this title, which can be interactively selected by the viewer. In addition the multiangle option allows a scene of a movie title to be viewed in different angles.
●Every DVD-Video player implies a region code corresponding to one of the six regions in the world where it is sold. This regional coding optionally enables playback of a DVD-Video title only in certain regions.
●DVD-Video discs can be prepared with a 'Parental Lock' in order to restrict the playback only by usage of a correct password.
2.2. Input media for DVD-Video
Sony DADC offers full authoring service for DVD- Video. For detailed information please refer to our DVD-Video authoring manual or contact our Customer Service department.
We also accept already authored DVD-Video titles. As standard input media Sony DADC prefers a DLT tape inlcuding DDP 2.0
