DVD Players

i find mp4 (the one's ipod use) very handy. but while watching them on quicktime, quicktime lags, so i recommend a K-lite codec pack (basic) which allows you to watch mp4 (and other movies) in windows media player. hope i helped. =]

Yes a DVD can wear out. All materals degrade with time and the plastics and other materials used in DVDs are no exception but it will take a (very) long time and the degradation has very little to do with whether or not the DVD is played many times. Recordable DVD's (and even more so Re-recordable DVDs) have a shorter lifespan than the commercial (pressed from a matrix) disks. The greatest risk to the information stored on a DVD is still mechanical abrasion due to handling the disk.

All "standard" U.S. spec television sets and some high-definition television sets use a process called "interlacing" to create the screen image. A standard U.S. spec television set uses 525 lines to create the image. A standard US-spec refreshes 60 times per second -- BUT, only half the lines are refreshed each time. The odd-numbered lines are refreshed, then 1/60th of a second later the even-numbered lines are refreshed, then 1/60th of a second later the odd-numbered lines are refreshed again, et cetera. So in reality each line is refreshed only 30 times per second. However, computer monitors and many high-definition TVs have what is called "progressive scan" refreshing. Instead of alternately refreshing every other line 30 times per second, progressive scan refreshes each line starting from the top and moving to the bottom. That is, it refreshes line number one, then line number two, then line number three, et cetera, all the way to the bottom. A complete top-to-bottom scan is completed 60 times per second. The primary advantages of this method are: a) movement is rendered more accurately because the entire screen refreshes 60 times per second rather than 30 times per second; b) this substantially reduces "flicker" which is more easily detected up-close, which is one of the reasons why progressive-scan is used on computer monitors. Progressive-scan is particularly common on HDTVs with 720 lines. This standard is called 720p. Another common HDTV resolution standard is 1080 lines; however, as of this writing almost all 1080-line HDTVs use interlacing. This standard is called 1080i. Progressive-scan DVD players are capable of producing a progressive-scan picture on a video viewing device (computer monitor, 720p HDTV, etc.) However, ONLY such devices are capable of making use of a DVD player's progressive scan capability. A progressive-scan DVD player viewed through an interlace-display device (such as a standard television set or a 1080i HDTV set) will still produce a picture that is refreshed using the interlace method rather than the progressive-scan method. For this reason, most people have no need for progressive-scan-capable DVD players unless they plan to purchase a 720p HDTV in the near future. That said, almost all but the cheapest "stripper" DVD players have progressive-scan capability.

Type your answer here... It should be nothing more than hooking up the HDMI cable from the HD tv to the DVD player.This cable delivers the video and the audio simultaneously.If it is an older DVD player like mine, I hooked up the video using a component cable which has three connections on each end - red, blue, yellow then connect the audio using phono plugs.This cable has one red connection and one white.On the back of the DVD player there is an audio/out, the red goes on the left connection and the white goes to the right.The other end of that connects to the audio/in on the tv.Some cables such as Monster cable have a directional arrow on them.I don't think it matters.Monstercable seems to think it does.I hope this helped.

Troy

blu-ray

Blu-ray Disc (also known as BD or Blu-ray) is an optical disc storage medium designed to supersede the standard DVD format.

Its main uses are for storing high-definition video, PlayStation 3 video games, and other data, with up to 25 GB per single layered, and 50 GB per dual layered disc. Although these numbers represent the standard storage for Blu-Ray drives, the specification is open-ended, with the upper theoretical storage limit left unclear.

200 GB discs are available, and 100 GB discs are readable without extra equipment or modified firmware.

The disc has the same physical dimensions as standard DVDs and CDs.

The name Blu-ray Disc derives from the blue-violet laser used to read the disc. While a standard DVD uses a 650 nanometer red laser, Blu-ray uses a shorter wavelength, a 405 nm blue-violet laser, and allows for almost ten times more data storage than a DVD.

DVD players cannot play Bluray discs. The lasers and the data storage are different so no data can be read from a Bluray disc in a DVD drive. That is the case whether or not there is any up-scaling available in the player.

Bluray players on the other hand are quite happy to play DVDs as well as Bluray discs.

A VCD is a video CD-ROM. Same format as audio CDs except instead of encoding audio the disk holds encoded video and audio. The format is pretty much extinct now, but most PCs and DVD players will still play them if they are inserted.

Converting VHS to DVD will require more than just software, one will need a specialist video card able to receive the signal from the VHS. The necessary software will generally be provided with the video card, however software for converting between video formats may be freely downloaded from sites such as CNet and Softonic.

They are used for watching movies and videos. Esp. since the video tapes are almost obsolete now.

You can find it on Amazon.com here: http://www.amazon.com/And-Your-Name-Is-Jonah/dp/B002BTRCUO

The surface is made of special alloys that are melted by the write laser in the CD-RW drive. These melted areas are read by the laser. When it's time to record over the CD, the laser heats up the alloy and melts the data into a new pattern.

It needs an image, title, age rating, price, bar code and something persuasive like "must see movie of the year".

As time passes by technology will lose value because better technology is being produced, so over time things will start to cost less. Prior to this post a 25 gigabyte disc costs about 2.6 dollars. A pack of 15 disc costs 40. 7/27/10

yes, find a player for your digital video (probably your digital video camera) and it should have an analogue output, usually a yellow video cable which you can plug into the back of a VCR.

Unless you want to record a digital signal onto a VHS cassette, and the simple answer to that is no.

The list button on the remote! It works for me.

2 choices:

First, you've placed a wrong formated Disc into the unit, or a CD instead of a DVD...

Second, the unit doesn't have a Disc installed, or it's just "dead" and can't read any Formated Discs...

Yes. The DVD player does,'t usually go through the tuner. The "new digital TV" just means that it has a digital tuner. This won't affect things like DVD players that don't use the antenna input.

== == Toshiba sells it's DVD drives as DVD-Super Multi Double layer drives. What all it supports will depend on specific model and firmware, but most will support DVD+RW, DVD-RW, DVD+R DL, DVD+R, DVD-R, DVD-RAM, CD-R, CD-RW.

Yes, but Blu-Rays cannot be played on DVD players

I actually bought one in 1996...

At Radio Shack a bare bones (but considering today's technology, there were all bare bones) RCA DVD player ran me $300 bucks plus tax. At the time HDMI didn't exist, so I used an optical audio cable (which at the time was 40 bucks for 4 feet), and a component video cable (which ran me 40 bucks too). At the time with the equipment I had I couldn't tell a difference between a brand new VHS movie (that didn't have wear points in the tape) and DVD.

The first DVD I bought after I bought the player was Face/Off, which was the cheapest on the entire rack at Wal-Mart, which cost 25 bucks.

Types of recordable CD and DVD media If your computer has an internal or external recordable optical drive supported by Apple, you can "burn" (record) your favorite music, applications, documents, digital photos and video, and other digital files to recordable CD and DVD discs. You can create your own music CDs and play them on a standard audio player, or create DVDs with movies and slideshows and play them on a DVD player. There are several types of recordable CD and DVD media: DVD-R discs hold about 4.7 GB of information. You can burn files on a DVD-R disc using the Apple SuperDrive. DVD-R discs are not reusable; you can burn files on them only once. DVD-RW (DVD-Rewritable) discs hold about 4.7 GB of information on each side. If you have an Apple SuperDrive, you can read information on these discs, but you can't burn files on them using Mac OS X. DVD-RW discs are reusable: you can burn files on them, erase them, and then burn again (if you have an application that is compatible). CD-RW (CD-Rewritable) discs come in normal and high-speed formats. You can burn files on CD-RW discs using the Combo drive (or another supported CD burner). CD-RW discs are reusable: you can burn files on them, erase them, and then burn again. CD-R (CD-Recordable) discs come in two types. One holds 74 minutes of audio, or about 650 MB of information. The other holds 80 minutes of audio, or about 700 MB of information. You can burn CD-R discs using the Combo drive (or another supported CD burner). For recording audio CDs, it is best to use CD-R discs because most standard audio CD players cannot read CD-RW discs. For longer-term storage and reliability, use CD-R discs. You can't burn anything on a CD-ROM or DVD-ROM disc. Tell me more Note: Certain links that this article refers to may not be available in this context; please consult the relevant product Help guide page on your computer for full access to these links.