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| Foreword | |
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| Table of Figures and Tables | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| About this Book | |
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| About the Disc | |
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| Standards and Conventions | |
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| Other Conventions | |
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| Bits, Bytes, Units and Notations | |
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| Lights, Camera...Action! | |
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| Film or Tape or ? ? | |
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| Television Systems: A Primer | |
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| Frame Rates | |
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| High Definition Image Resolutions | |
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| Chroma Subsampling and Bit Depth | |
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| High Definition Data Streams | |
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| Film Formats | |
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| Video Formats | |
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| Pictures and Sound | |
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| High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) | |
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| HD Disc Players | |
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| Settop Players | |
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| HD Disc Recorders | |
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| Additional Player Considerations | |
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| HDTV Displays | |
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| What's Wrong with CRT? | |
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| Types of New Displays | |
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| HD Video Displays Meet HD Discs | |
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| Coding Technologies | |
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| Creation of a Format | |
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| Audio Coding Technologies | |
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| Mandatory vs. Optional Codecs | |
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| Choosing a Primary Audio Codec | |
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| Choosing a Secondary Audio Codec | |
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| Video Coding Technologies | |
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| Differences Between HD DVD and Blu-ray | |
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| Choosing a Video Codec | |
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| Persistent Storage | |
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| Technically Speaking | |
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| Potential Uses | |
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| Persistent Storage Implementations | |
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| HD DVD | |
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| Blu-ray: Binding Unit Data Area (BUDA) and the Virtual File System (VFS) | |
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| Conclusion and Comment | |
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| Network/Streaming Technologies | |
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| Creativity Requirement | |
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| Design and Planning | |
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| Implementation | |
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| Summary | |
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| The HD DVD Format | |
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| Standard Content | |
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| Similarities to DVD | |
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| Key Differences from DVD | |
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| When is HD DVD Standard Content Appropriate? | |
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| Advanced Content | |
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| Structure of Advanced Content | |
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| Structure of an Advanced Application | |
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| When is HD DVD Advanced Content Appropriate? | |
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| - The Blu-ray Disc Format | |
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| Format Comparisons | |
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| Comparing HDMV to HD DVD Standard Content | |
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| Comparing BD-Java to HD DVD Advanced Content | |
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| HD Movie Mode | |
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| BD-Java | |
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| Relation of BD-J to HDMV | |
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| When is BD-J Appropriate? | |
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| Compression and Authoring Tools | |
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| Audio Compression | |
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| Video Compression | |
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| Authoring Tools | |
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| HD DVD Standard Content | |
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| HD DVD Advanced Content | |
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| BD HDMV & BD-J Authoring | |
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| Subtitling | |
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| Summary | |
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| Setting Up for Production | |
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| Preparing for Production Capability | |
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| Single-User/Consumer Production | |
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| Small Scale Prosumer/Corporate Operation | |
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| Large-Scale/Hollywood Operations | |
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| Conclusions and Other Recommendations | |
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| Project Design and Planning | |
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| Project Design | |
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| Project Flowchart | |
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| User Interactivity | |
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| Authoring and Programming | |
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| Quality Control | |
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| Scheduling | |
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| Ready, Aim, Fire | |
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| Graphic Design | |
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| Design and Planning | |
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| Implementation | |
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| Graphics Basics for HD DVD | |
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| Graphics Basics for Blu-Ray | |
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| Summary | |
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| Compression | |
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| Audio | |
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| Video | |
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| Getting Started with a New Encoder | |
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| Advanced Encoding Techniques | |
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| Summary | |
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| Authoring/Programming | |
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| HD DVD Standard Content | |
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| HD DVD Advanced Content | |
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| Markup vs. Script | |
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| Blu-rayHDMV | |
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| BD-J | |
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| Basic Architecture | |
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| Quality Control (QC) | |
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| Setting Up for Quality | |
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| Quality Checking Techniques | |
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| Visual Inspection Checklists | |
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| Test Plans | |
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| Test Reports | |
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| The Player Challenge | |
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| Summary | |
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| So, You Think You're Done | |
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| Replication Workflow | |
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| Disc Format Configurations | |
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| HD Disc Packaging | |
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| Advanced Access Content System (AACS) | |
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| Objectives | |
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| Ecosystem | |
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| Technology Overview | |
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| Analog Sunset | |
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| HD DVD Implementation | |
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| Blu-ray Implementation | |
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| AACS Production Workflow | |
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| Online Connections and Network Content | |
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| Managed Copy | |
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| Blu-ray Disc's BD+ | |
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| BD-ROM Mark | |
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| SPDC (Self-Protecting Digital Content) | |
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| Counter Measures | |
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| Native Code | |
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| Media Transform | |
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| Workflow | |
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| When to Use SPDC | |
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| About The Disc | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |