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The Saturn Award for Best Film Collection Release (formerly Saturn Award for Best DVD Collection and Saturn Award for Best DVD/BD Collection Release) is an award given by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films to a movie collection on DVD and/or Blu-ray. [1]
Gelett Burgess c. 1910. In the US, the history of the blurb is said to begin with Walt Whitman's collection, Leaves of Grass.In response to the publication of the first edition in 1855, Ralph Waldo Emerson sent Whitman a congratulatory letter, including the phrase "I greet you at the beginning of a great career": the following year, Whitman had these words stamped in gold leaf on the spine of ...
Examples: CD-ROM represents the CD format, in its pre-recorded "read only" use; DVD+R represents a DVD "+" disc which can be written once only; DVD-RW represents a DVD "-" disc which can be read or written many times; BD-RE represents a Blu-ray disc which can be read or written many times.
Blu-ray (Blu-ray Disc or BD) is a digital optical disc data storage format designed to supersede the DVD format. It was invented and developed in 2005 and released worldwide on June 20, 2006, capable of storing several hours of high-definition video (HDTV 720p and 1080p).
HD DVD's Standard Content is a minor change from standard DVD's subpicture technology, while Blu-ray's BDMV is completely new. This makes transitioning from standard DVD to Standard Content HD DVD relatively simple [citation needed] —for example, Apple's DVD Studio Pro has supported authoring Standard Content since version 4.0.3.
For example, many Maxell DVDs are made by Ritek or CMC magnetics. Many companies use equipment from Singulus Technologies. This list includes both CD, DVD and Blu-ray recordable and rewritable media manufacturers (like Ritek), and disc replicators (companies that replicate discs with pre-recorded content, like Sony DADC).
The DVD specifications created and updated by the DVD Forum are published as so-called DVD Books (e.g. DVD-ROM Book, DVD-Audio Book, DVD-Video Book, DVD-R Book, DVD-RW Book, DVD-RAM Book, DVD-AR (Audio Recording) Book, DVD-VR (Video Recording) Book, etc.). [1] [2] [3] DVD discs are made up of two discs; normally one is blank, and the other ...
Superbit discs can be read by all regular DVD video players, but their film files were encoded at a bit rate that is, according to Sony, approximately 1.5 times higher (6-7 Mbit/s) than standard DVDs (4-5 Mbit/s), which helps minimize artifacts caused by video compression and allow the image to be pre-filtered less prior to compression, which results in more detail.