Dvd Demystified: The Guidebook for Dvd-Video and Dvd-Rom

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Summary: A comprehensive book for the videophile or professional
Review: An excellent book for the audio/videophile or professional. Every detail appears to be covered. An excellent value even at twice the price.

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Summary: Swedish Chef
Review: I believe that the gentleperson from Portland was trying to point out, correctly, that the syntax of the sentence re 4.7 GB of DVD space was actually compared with 650 GB of CD-ROM space. Now, all we know-it-alls automatically translated the 650 into MB's, but what was actually printed on the page read 650 GB's. I.E., everyone wins and all must receive prizes. For the know-nothing reader, s/he might, just might, be misled and confused into thinking that a CD-ROM contained 650 GB of space, thus making the sentence and point senseless. Do recognize that everyone who chooses to be in this field must, almost by definition, contains a little flavor of obsessive compulsive personality disorder. The gentleperson from Portland was showing his/her. Those who objected were also placing theirs on display. Why not just forget the whole thing.

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Summary: 640 Mb it is !
Review: I would recommend this book to anyone with or planning on buying DVD. The chapters are divided up well so it's easy to skip over the too-technical items. Now I can finally know what I'm talking about when arguing about DVD with friends :)

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Summary: Very educational, cleared up all my questions about DVD
Review: I would recommend this book to anyone with or planning on buying DVD. The chapters are divided up well so it's easy to skip over the too-technical items. Now I can finally know what I'm talking about when arguing about DVD with friends :)

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Summary: A fantastic look at DVD from both tech & consumer side.
Review: Jim Taylor does a great job of describing not only the history of the DVD format, but the technical details as well. Anyone ever slightly interested in this great format should get this book. It's a DVD bible and it even comes with an actual DVD Disc! The disc contains Dolby Digital and THX trailers, as well as test patterns and DVD movie previews.

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Summary: Swedish Chef
Review: This book is great! BUT there is an error in the THX "Tex" trailer, they have flipped the back channels (!), I hope they have fixed it in the new version...