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by Brian Luttrull CD-Video/CDV/CDV5 is a single sided, gold in color, 5" diameter disc containing about six minutes of video with audio, plus 20 minutes of audio-only, which is usually one video/audio track and 4 to 5 audio-only tracks. The video is recorded as uncompressed, analogue data, in the same way as a 12" laserdisc. The video is only playable on laserdisc players that can handle 5" discs, or the rare CDV players (Phillips once made some). The audio portion of the CDV is digital, the same as any audio Compact Disc, and playable on any audio CD player. Most CDVs were produced by Polygram, all made in the 1980's. They never really caught on as hoped, though were more popular in Europe than in the US, and even more so in Japan (where I believe they still are). There is no way to play CDV's on your set top DVD Video player or on your PC. VideoCD/VCD, completely different than CDV, is composed entirely of up to 74 or 80 minutes of compressed, digital MPEG1 video and audio. VCD's are playable on VCD players (common in Asia), PC CDROM and DVDROM drives, or most DVD Video players. NTSC resolution is up to 352 x 240, and 352 x 280 for PAL/SECAM . SVCDs contain higher quality MPEG2 video and have an NTSC resolution up to 480 x 480 and 480 x 576 for PAL/SECAM. |
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