Ben Hur is a good example, as it is 2.76:1 and appears as a very narrow band across the screen. With a 17-inch monitor providing only 15 inches of viewable space, a movie that is in its original widescreen aspect ratio can be pretty small. Of course, one of the issues here is the size of the screen. In the PC world, it seemed that a similar movement was in progress, with CD burning a more favored choice over DVD playing, except in the case of laptops, where the user might want to watch a movie while traveling. When calling a Macintosh reseller to investigate the configuration of a new machine, the sales representative noted that Apple was moving away from offering a DVD drive that was only capable of playing discs in favor of a (more expensive) drive capable of burning discs as well.
Likewise, very rarely are users putting these discs into the DVD-ROM drive of their computers and accessing the special materials. Some studies have shown that people are not really watching DVD movies on their computers in great numbers. PC DVD-ROM: InterActual Technologies Leads the Packĭarth Mac: Phantom Menace Exposes Apple DVD Problems For more information, see these articles: Interactive games are another feature that can be found on DVD video discs. Web-enabled DVDs can contain hyperlinks that reach out and connect to web sites on the Internet. Special browsable files can be added to the disc such as bibliographies, filmographies and other information about the movie. An entire web site can be placed on the disc and accessed through a web browser. Besides, storage, another benefit of a DVD-ROM drive is the capability of playing DVD movies and accessing special features that are designed to work with the computer.Īs with anything on the computer, these extra features take various forms.
Enter the DVD-ROM disc that can contain over four gigabytes of data. Once upon a time, the 650MB available on a CD seemed adequate, but in this era of massive files (such as MP3s, QuickTime movies and DVD video) it seems small indeed. The main advantage of DVD-ROM as a storage device is the disc capacity. There is even the potential of a DVD rewritable drive, although these have not yet hit prime time. PC DVD-ROM: DVD Player Software and the Holy Grailīy Jesse Shanks When buying a new computer, there is often the option of adding a DVD-ROM drive along with a CD or CD-RW (rewriteable) drive.
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