Research on DVD A Brief Summary DVD is a new technology very similar to compact discs. A DVD looks just like an ordinary compact disc, however a DVD can hold up too 6 times as much as a CD! That's 4.7 gigabytes! This gives enough room to hold an entire movie at twice the quality of VHS with theatre quality sound (better than CD-quality). Since it is on a disc, you can jump to any scene instantly, …showed first 75 words of 524 total…

…showed last 75 words of 524 total…of video codec, audio compression, navigational commands, auxiliary files, and other data types that it may contain. Only DVD discs that abide by these definitions will work on a DVD-Video-Player. The DVD-Video-Disc is not an MPEG 2 digital video stream, but a stream of all these elements put together. What goes out of a DVD-Video-Player and into the television is not actually digital-video, but one of three types of standard television signals: component, composite, or S-Video.