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  White Book - a Whatis.com definition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-13)
The White Book, which was released in 1993 by Sony, Philips, Matsushita, and JVC, is the specification document for Video CD (VCD).
White Book specifications include the disk format (such as the use of tracks, for example), a data retrieval structure compatible with ISO 9660, data fields to enable fast forward and reverse, and closed captioning.
Video CD is expected to be one of the first of all the CD formats to be completely supplanted by digital versatile disk (DVD) technology, which is of much higher quality.
searchstorage.techtarget.com /sDefinition/0,,sid5_gci507069,00.html   (256 words)

  
 Yellow Book (CD-ROM standards) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Yellow Book is the standard that defines the format of CD-ROMs.
The Yellow Book, created by Sony and Philips was the first extension of the Red Book.
The Yellow Book itself is not freely available.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yellow_Book_(CD-ROM_standards)   (122 words)

  
 CD & DVD Mastering
The Green Book is the most comprehensive specification of all the colored books, specifying in detail not just the disc but the coding of data and the architecture of the player hardware and software.
The CD recorder has a buffer to protect against interruptions and slowdowns, but if the interruption is so long that the recorder's buffer is completely emptied, a buffer underrun occurs, writing halts, and most often the recordable CD is irretrievably damaged.
Under the Orange Book standard for recordable CD, hybrid means a recordable disc on which one or more sessions are already recorded, but the disc is not closed, leaving space open for future recording.
www.cdman.com /technical/cdglossary.html   (7602 words)

  
 Yellow - Philips Intellectual Property & Standards
CD-i is a real interactive system delivering various qualities of video, various qualities of audio together with full user interactivity in real time.
These guidelines are intended to specify how to link a Video CD to WWW home pages.
The White Book or Video CD Specification (White Book) specifies the Video CD disc format enabling a playing time of max 74 minutes of full motion video accompanied by a CD quality sound track.
www.licensing.philips.com /information/cd/video   (438 words)

  
 GLOSSARY of CD and DVD TECHNOLOGIES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-13)
In video applications, this is the quantity of data, usually expressed in megabits per second (Mbits/sec), that the hardware needs to receive either to compress or to display a video clip of a specified quality (bits/pixel), at a specified frame rate and resolution.
In video compression, most algorithms maximize efficiency by comparing two frames in sequence, and recording and compressing only the difference--bits or areas changed from one to the other frame--which is called the 'delta' frame (term borrowed from the mathematical concept of 'delta' change in a continuous function).
In the CD industry, where the pits in the glass master are measured in tenths of microns, electroforming is used to 'form' the initial metallic (nickel) mold that is used to produce the stampers for the injection molding machines.
www.cdrominc.com /info/glotst04.htm   (17774 words)

  
 Table 6.2. Colour book standards for CD-ROM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-13)
Defines the standard for Photo-CD, jointly agreed by Philips and Kodak.
Based on the White Book Karaoke CD standard and MPEG-1, it is referred to as "Video-CD".
There have been some reports that the standard is flawed, but this has not been confirmed.
ibis.nott.ac.uk /guidelines/ch61/chap6-table2.html   (213 words)

  
 Video CD FAQ
Video CD was introduced by Philips and Sony in 1993.
In Asia, Video CD players are roughly as common as VCRs in North America: China alone manufactures 2 million VCD players a year.
Finally, Video CD is creating a big problem for the movie industry, analogous to the problem that MP3 has created for the music industry: it's very, very easy to create pirate copies of movies using Video CD.
www.geocities.com /Athens/Forum/2496/vcdfaq.html   (3374 words)

  
 2mpeg1 standard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-13)
CD-i, CD INTERACTIVE (Green Book) This is the Philips format for games and other interactive content.
It is an extension of Video CD 1.1.
VIDEO CD 3.0 China wants to develop interactive content, it does not has a lot of PCs (yet), but makes a lot of Video CDs and players.
homepage.oninet.pt /678mbd/standard.htm   (387 words)

  
 Super Video CD Overview
The final SVCD spec, set by the China National Committee of Recording Standards, was announced in September 1998, winning out over C-Cube's China Video Disc (CVD) and HQ-VCD (from the developers of the original Video CD).
People have much more practical approach to video disc formats in China - after all, there White Book VCDs have long been an everyday format, not unlike VHS is here.
Since most of the White Book VCD players were based on C-Cube's MPEG decoder chipset, the company was able to develop its own next-generation standard in close co-operation with major Chinese hardware manufacturers.
www.uwasa.fi /~f76998/video/svcd/overview   (5480 words)

  
 White book CD-ROM - Computing Reference - eLook.org
standard> A more open CD-ROM standard than Green Book CD-ROM.
All films mastered on CD-ROM after March 1994 use White Book.
Like Green Book, it is ISO 9660 compliant, uses mode 2 form 2 addressing and can only be played on a CD-ROM drive which is XA (Extended Architecture) compatible.
www.elook.org /computing/white-book-cd-rom.htm   (59 words)

  
 Pedal Steel and Lap Steel Instruction
The accompanying CD is in split-track format, allowing the student to play with the rhythm accompaniment, the pedal-steel solo parts, or both.
The accompanying CD is a stereo listening CD demonstrating most of the techniques and songs from the book.
This book is written in E9 tuning and is presented in notation and tablature.
steelguitarmusic.com /instruction.html   (1028 words)

  
 MPEG-FAQ: multimedia compression [4/9]
In order to reach the IS (International Standard) document stage, all parties must have sent in a letter to ISO stating they agree to license their intellectual property on fair and reasonable terms, indiscriminately.
Video and audio tapes submitted for subjective testing will be assessed in the two weeks preceding the 32nd MPEG meeting.
The Different Formats of Video CD and CD-i Looking at the way Video CD and CD-i has evolved may arguably lead one to believe that it was created to confuse the world on purpose.
www.faqs.org /faqs/mpeg-faq/part4   (7381 words)

  
 Home Theatre Myths, an End to Misinformation - DTS Music Discs [SMR]
However, the music discs produced by DTS and their licensees are not "CDs" in any shape or form… they only look like CDs – round, 12cm in diameter and usually a silver colour.
The terms "Compact Disc", "CD" and the recognisable CD logo are all trademarks of Philips/Sony who jointly developed the CD format.
This ‘flag’ fools Red-book compatible CD players (and by association laserdisc and DVD-Video players) into thinking that the data on the disc is valid PCM so that the machine consents to play the disc.
www.smr-home-theatre.org /myths/dtsmusic1.html   (628 words)

  
 EETimes.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-13)
In nearly all cases, the standards being drafted by the Ministry of Electronics Industry (MEI) are expected to differ from existing international standards, whose intellectual property is often tightly controlled by companies based outside of the People's Republic.
Regardless of its intent, China's standards initiative has gotten off to a strong start with its VCD 3.0 standards effort, which was revealed in September.
The new China VCD standard for drives that play movies, audio CDs and interactive educational titles, and provide additional features like karaoke, however, is said to require hardware vendors to make only small software changes to existing chip sets.
www.eetimes.com /news/97/982news/china.html   (2092 words)

  
 CD/ROM -- An extension of the CD audio standard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-13)
There are a number of standards in existence governing the CD-audio and CD/ROM data structures.
This standard is available in the library for your perusal.
Although the error detection and correction algorithms used in CD players are very robust, CD manufacturers still must pay special attention to disk quality to assure that disk errors do not exceed the error detection and correction capabilities of the encoding algorithm.
www.ee.washington.edu /conselec/CE/kuhn/cdrom/95x8.htm   (2326 words)

  
 Horseworld Emporium - Videos-Books-CDs
His beautiful video, filmed in the mountains of Spain, will entertain as well as educate horse lovers in the language of horses.
In this video Walter sets the standards of what true classical dressage was meant to be.
Riding instruction, fun at a Pony Club Rally, road safety and trailering are all part of this video, which guides viewers on the way to C test level.
www.horseworldemporium.com /web%20page15.html   (3097 words)

  
 The Mayor Speaks: October 2003 Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-13)
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I examined the CD audio driving tours and settled on a two-hour dramatized tour that I hoped would bring the battlefields to life for the kids.
Needless to say, Temple U is a very nice area and the Conwell Inn is one of the nicest places we have had the pleasure of staying at so far.
www.joelcomm.com /2003_10.html   (14027 words)

  
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 CCM Magazine
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What is really interesting is that he only knows about Christian music because he's taken a professional interest (He's writing a book on the industry called "Body Piercing Saved My Life" whose title is based on that odd, less than ironic t-shirt).
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