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DVD Demystified (McGraw-Hill Video/audio Engineering) [Paperback]

Jim Taylor (Author)

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Paperback: 528 pages
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Inc.,US; 2nd Revised edition edition (31 Dec 1999)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0071350268
ISBN-13: 978-0071350266
Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 18.8 x 4.8 cm

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Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,269,465 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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DVD is the all-in-one storage technology that is altering the landscape of home entertainment, professional video, business communications, and multimedia computing. Now is the time to learn about DVD and how to use it to its best advantage. In "DVD Demystified, Second Edition", industry insider Jim Taylor paints a full, up-to-date DVD picture with a friendly technical introduction. You must read it if you're a multimedia developer, work with educational technology or industrial training, if you're a filmmaker or musician - or simply want to understand this fascinating technology with potentially huge worldwide impact. "This is not merely 'a' good book to help you make sense of DVD, it is 'the' book that you will return to over and over as you explore and come to understand this exciting new optical media format." - Geoffrey Tully, Multimedia Technology Consultant; former Senior VP of Production, Divx Entertainment. "As one of the DVD industry's leading experts, Jim Taylor covers every aspect of DVD." - Ralph LaBarge, Managing Partner, Alpha DVD. The DVD contains hybrid DVD-Video. The DVD-ROM has samples from Broadcast DVD, Dolby, THX, DTS, Joe Kane Productions, Widescreen Review, and others, plus test images, WebDVD HTML files, spreadsheets, and more.

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Jim Taylor has been hip deep in DVD since 1995. Called a "minor tech legend" by E! Online, Jim created the official Internet DVD FAQ, writes articles and columns about DVD, serves as President of the DVD Association, was named one of the 21 most influential DVD executives by DVD Report, and received the 2000 DVD Pro Discus Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Industry. Jim has worked with interactive media for over 20 years, developing educational software, laserdiscs, CD-ROMs, Web sites, and DVDs; and teaching workshops and courses on multimedia, computer-based education, computer applications, and DVD. Formerly VP of Information Technology at Videodiscovery, an educational multimedia publishing company, Jim championed the format as Microsoft’s DVD Evangelist before joining as Chief Technology Officer. Jim Taylor is based in Seattle, Washington.

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No matter who you are or what you do, DVD technology will be in future, supplying entertainment, information, and enlightenment in the form of video, audio, and computer data. Read the first page

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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful

DVD still mystified 19 April 2002

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Hi,

If you are totally new to DVD, and are setting out to understand what the concept is, this is a good book, quite informative and well structured.

However if you are intending to develop a DVD application or DVD hardware, and think this book is going to be a replacement for the DVD specifications then you will be disappointed, there is not enough information to create software or hardware from this book.

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A comprehensive overview of the field 14 Oct 2002

By "trevor_a_power"

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Clearly presented, well written. I found this book very useful in evaluating the case for a DVD production project. Other texts can give you more detail on the DVD specs or step by step instructions on authoring/producing content, but this is great for putting it all in perspective

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

Everything you would EVER possibly want to know!! 7 Jan 2005

By MR S S BHACHU

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This book will take you step by step through EXACTLY what DVD is and how it compares to current technologies (CD/Video, etc).

I think that this book would be a little overkill if you were just a little interested in what DVD is, but if you were thinking of possibly deploying a system to replace your current CD based system, etc. Then this is the book for you!

You will be told about the differences in the types of DVD discs, how the technology works, encoding and decoding and everything else under the sun about DVD!!

Highly recommended!

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