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The Capacitance Electronic Disc (CED) is an analog video disc playback system developed by Radio Corporation of America (RCA), in which video and audio could be played back on a TV set using a special stylus and high-density groove system similar to phonograph records.
A progressive scan DVD player is a DVD player that can produce video in a progressive scan format such as 480p or 576p . Players which can output resolutions higher than 480p or 576p are often called upconverting DVD players. Before HDTVs became common, players were sold which could produce 480p or 576p. TVs with this feature were often in the ...
Capacitance Electronic Disc's competitors, Philips/Magnavox and Pioneer, instead manufactured optical discs, read with lasers.On April 4, 1984, RCA, having sold only 550,000 players, ended sales, losing $580 million. [2] The losses resulted in General Electric's acquisition of RCA in 1986, and the "SelectaVision" brand was abandoned. [2]
Region-code enhanced, also known as just "RCE" or "REA", [4] was a retroactive attempt to prevent the playing of one region's discs in another region, even if the disc was played in a region-free player. The scheme was deployed on only a handful of discs. The disc contained the main program material region coded as region 1.
CD/DVD copy protection is a blanket term for various methods of copy protection for CDs and DVDs. Such methods include DRM, CD-checks, Dummy Files, illegal tables of contents, over-sizing or over-burning the CD, physical errors and bad sectors. Many protection schemes rely on breaking compliance with CD and DVD standards, leading to playback ...
Videodisc (or video disc) is a general term for a laser- or stylus-readable random-access disc that contains both audio and analog video signals recorded in an analog form. Typically, it is a reference to any such media that predates the mainstream popularity of the DVD format.
The VideoNow is a portable video player produced by Hasbro and released by their subsidiary Tiger Electronics in 2003 as part of Tiger's line of Now consumer products. The systems use discs called PVDs (which stands for Personal Video Disc), which can store about 30 minutes of video, [3] the length of an average TV show with commercials (a typical TV episode is about 20–23 minutes without ...
Flexplay is a trademark for a discontinued DVD-compatible optical video disc format with a time-limited (usually 48-hour) playback.They are often described as "self-destructing", although the disc merely turns black or dark red and does not physically disintegrate.