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March 23, 2006  |   A Prism Business Media Publication  |     
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Table Of Contents
Our Modern Times
Verbatim/MKM Announces New Archival Grade DVD-R Media
Abbey Road Interactive Joins Sonic High Definition Authoring Alliance
Shooting for DVD: Reviewing the Fundamentals

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Our Modern Times
D.W. Leitner
 In London a few days ago a writer friend of mine loaned me Warner Home Video's superb 2-DVD set of Charlie Chaplin's "Modern Times" featuring, as an extra, Octavio Cortázar's "Por Primera Vez" ("For the First Time"), a delightful short Cuban film about remote villagers, adults and children alike, watching a film for the first time in their lives.

On the screen, flickering in their amazed eyes was the famous sequence in "Modern Times" in which a time-saving automatic feeding machine repeatedly grinds a spinning corn cob into trapped assembly-line worker Charlie's dentures. The Little Tramp tortured by 1936 technology run amok... more >>


Product News

Verbatim/MKM Announces New Archival Grade DVD-R Media
Verbatim Corporation and its parent company, Mitsubishi Kagaku Media (Verbatim/MKM), announced a breakthrough in archival media technology that will provide government agencies, organizations and end users with highly compatible, super long life DVD media for storing critical data and preserving precious memories.

The new technology, which has been submitted for patent protection, is based on the company's new Dual Reflective Layer technology... more >>


Industry News

Abbey Road Interactive Joins Sonic High Definition Authoring Alliance
Sonic Solutions, the leader in digital media software, announced that Abbey Road Interactive, the award-winning new media facility based at London's Abbey Road Studios, has joined Sonic's High Definition Authoring Alliance (HDAA).

Abbey Road's membership gives them immediate access to Sonic's pioneering tools for high-definition video and audio encoding, and comprehensive Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD authoring systems that include tools for advanced interactivity (BD-J and iHD)... more >>


But Wait! There's More!

Shooting for DVD: Reviewing the Fundamentals
Barry Braverman
 DVD is big business. In 2004, retail sales of DVD product exceeded $25 billion, which begs the question as a pro-level shooter of film and video if you're doing enough to wrest the best possible quality images out of the five-inch discs... more >>


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