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DVD region code. DVD region codes are a digital rights management technique introduced in 1997. [1] It is designed to allow rights holders to control the international distribution of a DVD release, including its content, release date, and price, all according to the appropriate region. This is achieved by way of region-locked DVD players ...
The UK Video Charts is a group of charts compiled by the Official Charts Company on behalf of The British Association for Screen Entertainment. The charts are based on weekly DVD, Blu-ray and, formerly, VHS sales in 6,500 retailers across the UK. The main chart combines the sales of all video sales in the UK and trades under the name of the ...
Contents. DVD-Video. Other logo used from 1997 to 2001 (although some DVDs from 2001 to 2003 and some pirated DVDs made after 2001 still carry this logo) DVD-Video is a consumer video format used to store digital video on DVDs. DVD-Video was the dominant consumer home video format in Asia, North America, [ 5 ] Europe, and Australia in the 2000s ...
This article compares the technical specifications of multiple high-definition formats, including HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc; two mutually incompatible, high-definition optical disc formats that, beginning in 2006, attempted to improve upon and eventually replace the DVD standard. The two formats remained in a format war until February 19, 2008 ...
t. e. The DVD (common abbreviation for digital video disc or digital versatile disc) [9][10] is a digital optical disc data storage format. It was invented and developed in 1995 and first released on November 1, 1996, in Japan. The medium can store any kind of digital data and has been widely used to store video programs (watched using DVD ...
Region 1 (US/CAN) Region 2 (UK/ROI) Region 4 (AUS/NZ) BBFC IFCO OFLC; Family Sized DVD Collection: n/a: October 31, 2005: n/a: 1–3 15 15 M This box set contains Season 1–3 plus the 2-disc Family Guy Uncovered set. The Complete Collection: n/a: April 24, 2006: n/a: 1–4A 15 15 n/a This box set contains the Season 1–4 sets plus Family Guy ...
Some DVD players (usually lesser known brands) include an internal transcoder and the signal can be output in NTSC-M, with some video quality loss due to the standard conversion from a 625/50 PAL DVD to the NTSC-M 525/60 output format. A few DVD players sold in Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay also allow a signal output of NTSC-M, PAL, or PAL-N.
The following is a list of number-one DVDs of 2009 in the United Kingdom.The highest selling home video formats in the UK are ranked by the Official UK Video/DVD Chart, which is published and compiled by The Official Charts Company, on behalf of the British Video Association. The chart ranks the weekly sales of video and DVD formats in 6,200 ...