Authoring conventions

DVD+R
DVD-R
Layers- multiple
Layers- single
Size- 4 706 074 624 bytes (4488 MB)
Size- 4 706 074 624 bytes (4488 MB)
Pronunciation- DVD plus R
Pronunciation- DVD dash R
Backed by- DVD+RW alliance
Backed by- DVD forum
Drag and drop- Yes, supported. This technology is
Drag and drop- is not supported
code named Mt. Rainier
and is a hardware feature.
DVD -Short for digital versatile disc or digital video disc, a type
of optical disk technology similar to the CD-ROM.
DVD-Video- A video format for displaying full-length digital
movies.
DVD-ROM- A type of read-only compact disc that can hold a
minimum of 4.7GB (gigabytes), enough for a full-length movie.
burn- Slang term meaning to write data to a CD-ROM or DVDROM.
Divx- Short for Digital video express, a new DVD-ROM format
promoted by several large Hollywood companies. With Divx, a
movie loaded onto a DVD-ROM is playable only during a certain
time frame, typically two days.
These are the regions of the DVD players and what they mean
is if you have a region 1 dvd player and a region 3 dvd then it
will not play.
Region 1- U.S., U.S. Territories, Canada, and Bermuda

Region 2- Japan, Europe (excluding Russia, Belarus and

Ukraine), Greenland, South Africa, Swaziland, Lesotho, Egypt
and the Middle East
Region 3- Southeast Asia, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and
Macau
Region 4- Australia, New Zealand, Pacific Islands, Central
America, South America, Mexico and the Caribbean
Region 5- Afghanistan, Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, Africa (except
Egypt, South Africa, Swaziland and Lesotho), Central and South
Asia, Mongolia and North Korea
Region 6- China
DVD Equipment
DVD player
Set-top player
DVD recorder
DVD player application
Parental control
The use of parental control is becoming more common as there
are a lot of bad things on the internet that you wouldn`t want
your kids to see what is out there. Parental control has, more
than just one feature that it blocks like on
https://www.netnanny.com who provide parental control block
things such as;
Time management- this allows you to put a time limit on your
laptops or computers so that your kids are not on it all day
staring at a screen.
Alerts and reporting- this will get you to get email sent to your
email address about what your children have been searching if
it is a concern.
Block pornography- this stops anyone from watching
pornography

Remote admin- this will let you change your kids profile
settings, check the usage

Easter eggs
What an Easter egg is a teaser or a short hidden message that
is usually a picture of something that will appear later in the
film as a clue or something that as actually happened before.
Developers like to do this pretty often but it is very hard to find
them.

DVD Menus
Menu most of the time a DVD menu will have an ongoing
collection of short clips from the movie with music in the
background. Every menu is interactive with the viewer as they
will press the buttons of up, down, right, left and ok. The viewer
will know which button they are currently on and selected as it
will either be underlined or highlight.

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Dual layer
Dual layer or DVD-R DL the DL that means dual layer is also
called DVD-R9, is a derivative of the DVD-R format standard.
DVD-R DL discs hold 8.5 GB by utilizing two recordable dye
layers, each capable of storing a little less than the 4.7
gigabyte (GB) of a single layer disc, almost doubling the total
disc capacity.

Languages
Dvd menus have different languages as dvds are all over the
world so obviously people need their language that they speak.
This makes DVD companies a whole lot more money as they
can be distributed all over.