Welcome to the Invelos forums. Please read the forum rules before posting.

Read access to our public forums is open to everyone. To post messages, a free registration is required.

If you have an Invelos account, sign in to post.

    Invelos Forums->DVD Profiler: Desktop Feature Requests Page: 1 2  Previous   Next
Better HD support
Author Message
DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorAce_of_Sevens
Registered: December 10, 2007
Reputation: High Rating
Posts: 3,004
Posted:
PM this userView this user's DVD collectionDirect link to this postReply with quote
I'm not the one trying to redefine DVD to be any disc with video on it.
DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorWinston Smith
Don't be discommodious
Registered: March 13, 2007
United States Posts: 21,610
Posted:
PM this userEmail this userView this user's DVD collectionDirect link to this postReply with quote
Here's the difference Ace, Ken has decided for our purposes, rightly that DVD, BD and HD are not different formats but cousins as it were . While the Rules specifically address your comment, so no matter what you are still wrong.. I just find it very amusing, except that your comment was out of line and some might have taken it as encouragement to ignore the Rules. In short, my friend, bad form.

Skip
ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!!
CBE, MBE, MoA and proud of it.
Outta here

Billy Video
DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar Contributornorthbloke
Registered: March 15, 2007
Reputation: High Rating
United Kingdom Posts: 5,459
Posted:
PM this userDirect link to this postReply with quote
Quoting Ken Cole:
Quote:
Officially DVD stands for nothing.  Studios wanted Digital Video Disc while the computer folk wanted Digital Versatile Disc.  So in the end, they agreed it would be simply "DVD" - not an acronym.

That's interesting. I just happened to notice on the copyright notice of a film I was watching over the weekend that it actually contained the words "the contents of this digital versatile disc..."
Quoting 8ballMax:
Quote:
Er, yet it is. DVD is an optical medium for Digital Video storage. Blu-Ray is and optical medium for Digital Video storage. One stores Hi-Definition Video whilst the other stores Standard Definition Video. Apples and oranges. What's the big deal?

Fine. In that case, start playing your bluray discs in your DVD player, let me know how far you get...
And what about Video CD - that's an optical medium for video storage too. Shall we start profiling those too? After all, they're still DVDs. 
DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar Contributorsurfeur51
Since July 3, 2003
Registered: March 29, 2007
Reputation: Great Rating
France Posts: 4,479
Posted:
PM this userView this user's DVD collectionDirect link to this postReply with quote
I agree with Northbloke. Though we also could look at DVDs as a system to watch video at home, something as a Video Home System = VHS...     
Images from movies
 Last edited: by surfeur51
DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorWinston Smith
Don't be discommodious
Registered: March 13, 2007
United States Posts: 21,610
Posted:
PM this userEmail this userView this user's DVD collectionDirect link to this postReply with quote
North:

Your brilliamce is simply blinding.      

Skip
ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!!
CBE, MBE, MoA and proud of it.
Outta here

Billy Video
DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorNexus the Sixth
Contributor since 2002
Registered: March 13, 2007
Reputation: High Rating
Sweden Posts: 3,197
Posted:
PM this userView this user's DVD collectionDirect link to this postReply with quote
HD DVD might be called a high density DVD, after all it has DVD in the name and was developed by the DVD Forum. But I doubt anyone from the Blu-ray camp would like their format to be called DVD... 
First registered: February 15, 2002
DVD Profiler Unlimited Registrantkschmit2
Registered: Jan 08, 2004
Registered: March 25, 2007
Posts: 41
Posted:
PM this userDirect link to this postReply with quote
Quoting Ace_of_Sevens:
Quote:
Forgot to mention, Closed-captioning is an NTSC feature. It needs to vanish on PAL & HD discs.


That is not correct.

While CC was originally part of the analog video stream (line 21), it has also been ported over to the digital domain.
See here for more info: http://www.pixeltools.com/tech_tip_closed_captioning.html

Many HD broadcasts have embedded CC signals, but there are also quite a number of Fox BDs that have closed captioning.
You could also embed CC into European HD streams.

I would totally appreciate it if people were to check their facts before making requests.
DVD Profiler Unlimited Registrantjmbox
Registered: April 14, 2007
United Kingdom Posts: 415
Posted:
PM this userVisit this user's homepageView this user's DVD collectionDirect link to this postReply with quote
Quoting Ken Cole:
Quote:
Another tidbit: Very early versions of DVD Profiler included a menu option under Tools - "DVD Stands For?", to which the program would respond "...DVD Stands for D___ V___ D___", filled with random words starting with D, V, and D. So, you might get "The alien abductors don't want you to know that DVD stands for Dynamic Visual Domination", or something that makes even less sense. 
*Updated with an example from version 0.9.0, which still runs fine under current OSes.


Ken, we need this back in the program 
DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorKulju
Registered: March 14, 2007
Finland Posts: 2,337
Posted:
PM this userView this user's DVD collectionDirect link to this postReply with quote
I'm trying to figure out how Blu-ray U-control should be implemented. As I see it, there can be several options you can set under U-control and there are no "standard" expressions for them. I've seen:
Motion Comics, Scene Explorer, PiP, Director's Notebook, Set Visits, Concept Art Gallery, but I believe there are much more out there.

Would it be a good idea to have a check box for U-Control and under it a free type field (With enough space for once!!) to list which options you can set with U-Control. Any ideas?
DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorNexus the Sixth
Contributor since 2002
Registered: March 13, 2007
Reputation: High Rating
Sweden Posts: 3,197
Posted:
PM this userView this user's DVD collectionDirect link to this postReply with quote
U-Control is specific for Universal so that won't fly, I would prefer the general term PiP features (picture in picture). If there are other (none PiP) features, you can use the regular check boxes, or the other field. I don't think we need another free text field.
First registered: February 15, 2002
DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantDigiTalk
Registered: April 12, 2007
Germany Posts: 4
Posted:
PM this userView this user's DVD collectionDirect link to this postReply with quote
If BD is DVD, so would BD and DVD be VHS, that's correct.
And, by the way, what about Laser Disks? Are they DVDs or CDs?
As CD means Compact Disc, a BD would also be a CD.
So, generalizing as "insert disc" would be fine for the dialogue, but renaming the program wouldn't be a good idea. And if: what should it be called?
"Profiler for different digital home video media"?
Of, we could go with "DVM-Profiler", DVM standing for "Digital Video Media".

Perhaps I should claim copyright to that abbreviation?
DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorNexus the Sixth
Contributor since 2002
Registered: March 13, 2007
Reputation: High Rating
Sweden Posts: 3,197
Posted:
PM this userView this user's DVD collectionDirect link to this postReply with quote
No, laserdiscs are vinyl, they're analogue. 
First registered: February 15, 2002
DVD Profiler Unlimited Registranttimoteo
Registered: April 13, 2007
Posts: 23
Posted:
PM this userView this user's DVD collectionDirect link to this postReply with quote
Quoting 8ballMax:
Quote:
Quoting Ace_of_Sevens:
Quote:
One more thing: the dialog boxes make reference to DVDs in DVD drives, even when it isn't actually a DVD.


Although more advanced, a Blu-Ray disc is still a DVD (Digital Video Disc) at the end of the day.


Ahhhh, yet one MORE reason why I wish HD-DVD had prevailed!  The nomenclature would have been just fine. 
    Invelos Forums->DVD Profiler: Desktop Feature Requests Page: 1 2  Previous   Next