We speak with DCA on its recent production of traditional DVD media that plays new age HD DVD material
Doug Carson & Associates, Inc. (DCA) announced this week that it has successfully mastered and replicated its first 3X DVD-ROM disc at Sonopress' North Carolina facility using DCA's MIS 8.5 DVD formatter software.
The 3X DVD-ROM format was originally proposed at a HD DVD Forum meeting in Tokyo, Japan in 2005. Using dual-layer, red layer technology, the media format is physically identical to traditional DVD-ROM. 3X DVD-ROM differs from the traditional format in that it includes setting instructions that tell the player to spin the disc three times faster to ensure smooth playback of high-bitrate, high-definition video and audio. Simply put, 3X DVD-ROM has the same data structure and guidelines as HD DVD, but written on 650nm red laser wavelength as opposed to the smaller 405nm blue laser wavelength.
3X DVD-ROM discs, however, are incompatible with older DVD players and must be played back in HD DVD players. 3X DVD-ROM incorporates support for AVC-MPEG-1, VC1 and MPEG-2 codecs, along with AACS copy protection. Several manufacturers are looking to 3X DVD-ROM as a low-cost entry into the HD video market.
DailyTech spoke with Eric Carson, Product Manager at DCA, to find out more about this lesser known HD DVD format.
Source:DailyTech - 3X DVD-ROM Enables HD DVD Video on Traditional DVD-9
Doug Carson & Associates, Inc. (DCA) announced this week that it has successfully mastered and replicated its first 3X DVD-ROM disc at Sonopress' North Carolina facility using DCA's MIS 8.5 DVD formatter software.
The 3X DVD-ROM format was originally proposed at a HD DVD Forum meeting in Tokyo, Japan in 2005. Using dual-layer, red layer technology, the media format is physically identical to traditional DVD-ROM. 3X DVD-ROM differs from the traditional format in that it includes setting instructions that tell the player to spin the disc three times faster to ensure smooth playback of high-bitrate, high-definition video and audio. Simply put, 3X DVD-ROM has the same data structure and guidelines as HD DVD, but written on 650nm red laser wavelength as opposed to the smaller 405nm blue laser wavelength.
3X DVD-ROM discs, however, are incompatible with older DVD players and must be played back in HD DVD players. 3X DVD-ROM incorporates support for AVC-MPEG-1, VC1 and MPEG-2 codecs, along with AACS copy protection. Several manufacturers are looking to 3X DVD-ROM as a low-cost entry into the HD video market.
DailyTech spoke with Eric Carson, Product Manager at DCA, to find out more about this lesser known HD DVD format.
Source:DailyTech - 3X DVD-ROM Enables HD DVD Video on Traditional DVD-9