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Press Release - Redondo Beach CA USA - 7/30/2004

In order to provide expanded and enhanced Web site development service and support, DigiVideoPlus.com now offers XOOPS-based site development for customers. XOOPs is a modular dynamic content management system, which may be used to create robust online informational communities, shared interactive cyberspaces, blogs, discussion groups and forums, etc. "Mere mortals" can manage site content -- no Web programming skill is required.

Press Release - Redondo Beach CA USA - 2/16/2004

In order to provide expanded and enhanced online video streaming service and support, DigiVideoPlus.com now is hosted by DreamHost.

Press Release - Redondo Beach CA USA - 6/7/2002

DigiVideoPlus.com today added content delivery on DVD to its line of affordable multimedia services for small businesses, nonprofit organizations, and educators. Now the quality of your delivered video matches that of the digital source! If you rent DVDs, you've already experienced the benefits: no more fuzzy VHS, quick access, no rewinding!

Press Release - Redondo Beach CA USA - 7/6/2001

DigiVideoPlus.com today added content delivery on VCD to its line of affordable multimedia content delivery services for small businesses, nonprofit organizations, and educators. Video CD (VCD) is a format popular in Asia and some other parts of the world.

VCDs can be played in most new model DVD players, as well as on Windows PCs and Apple computers. VCDs provide many of the advantages of DVDs at less cost, since they can be made using standard desktop computer CD-R burners and inexpensive CD-R discs.

While VHS tape and VCRs provide an easy, almost universal way of exchanging media content, video cassettes are linear access devices, requiring winding and rewinding. They experience tape transport damage and loss of quality over time, especially with heavy use. Also, copies of a copy (that is, tape copies not made from an original digital master) will be of lower quality.

* Flexible presentation

Using a DVD player's remote control, VCDs provide standoff presentation, random access to content (chapters/tracks or by time), digest overview, crystal clear pause, CD quality audio, user-selectable track or point A to point B repeat, up to 60x fast forward and backward play, up to 1/32x slow play, and auto resume after stop.

* VHS comparison

VCD quality in general is comparable to VHS. Titles and stills actually may look better. High motion scenes may exhibit some compression artifacts (more so than a DVD).

VCDs can store approximately 70 minutes of video and audio.

Unlike VHS tape, once a VCD is mastered, copies may be produced rapidly in non-real time. A typical new model CD-R burner records at 8x or faster, making copies less expensive.

In addition to being able to be played on a computer, a VCD's digital files may be stored on a computer's hard drive as part of a video gallery or Web site. (Playback from a Web page is practical only for those with high speed Internet connections.)

* What to look for in a DVD player

Major brand basic models are selling for around $150 [2004 update: ~ $50]. Look for a player which handles DVDs, VCDs, SVCDs, Audio CDs, MP3's, etc.; and which accepts CD-R/CD-RW discs created on a PC/Mac.

* Technology note for the curious

Standard VCDs use MPEG-1 compression versus the higher quality MPEG-2 for DVDs.