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DVD WARS!(digital versatile disc players and writers)

By Dixon, Douglas
Publication: Camcorder & Computer Video
Date: Tuesday, May 1 2001

Clearing Up the Confusion over DVD Players and Writers

Digital versatile disc (DVD) is not just for professional authoring anymore. With the announcement in January 2001 of systems from Apple (www.apple.com/dv) and Compaq (www.compaq.com) bundled with Pioneer's new DVR-103 recordable DVD/CD drive hardware and simple DVD authoring software, creating DVDs has become feasible and inexpensive enough for business and consumer use!

All of this means that you can edit video on your PC, author it into a DVD production with menus and interactive features, burn it to a

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