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DVD Player
A DVD player is a device for playing video DVDs. Most hardware DVD players have to be connected to a television set; there are also some small portable devices which have an LCD screen attached.
A DVD player has to complete these tasks:
Read a DVD disk in UDF version 2 format
optionally decrypt the data with either CSS and/or Macrovision
decode the MPEG-2 video stream with a maximum of 10 Mbit/s (peak) or 8 Mbit/s (continuous)
decode sound in MPEG, PCM or AC-3 format and output (with optional AC-3 to stereo downsampling) on stereo connector, optical or electric digital connector
output a video signal, either an analog one (in PAL, SECAM or NTSC format) on the color video signal connector, or a digital one on the DVI output connector
Most DVD players also allow users to play audio CDs (CDDA, MP3, etc.) and Video CDs (VCD) and include a Home Cinema decoder (i.e. Dolby Digital, Digital Theatre System(DTS)). Some newer devices also play videos in the DivX video compression format popular on the internet.
As of 2004, retail prices for such a device, depending on its optional features (such as digital sound or video output), start between 40 and 80 USD/euros.
By far the largest producer of DVD players is China; in 2002 they produced 30 million players, more than 70% of the world output. These producers have to pay about US$20 per player in license fees, to the patent holders of the DVD technology (Sony, Philips, Pioneer and LG Electronics) as well as for MPEG-2 licenses. To avoid these fees, China has developed the EVD standard as an intended successor of DVD; as of 2004, EVD players were only being sold in China.
Software DVD players are programs that allow to view DVD videos on a computer with a DVD-ROM drive.
'':'' CD, CD-ROM, VCR, DVD recorder
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Dash
A dash is a punctuation mark, and is not to be confused with the hyphen, which has quite different uses.
Common dashes
Several forms of dashes exist, of which the most common are:
Hyphen-minus
''Main article: Hyphen''
The hyphen-minus is the ASCII character typically used as a hyphen, a minus sign, ''and'' a dash in ASCII computer files. Strictly speaking, it is not a dash at all; thus, careful typesetting (including with modern computer applications, such as word processors and HTML) usually uses the following proper dashes instead.
Figure dash
The figure dash is so named because it is the same width as a digit, at least in fonts with digits of equal width.
The figure dash is used when a dash must be used within numbers, for example with telephone numbers: ''6345789''. Note that this does not indicate a range (use an en dash for that), or function as the minus sign (which has its own glyph).
The figure dash is often unavailable; in this case, one may use a hyphen-minus instead. In Unicode, the figure dash is U+2012 (decimal 8210). In HTML, you must use the numeric forms ‒ or ‒ to type it; there is no equivalent HTML entity. In TeX, the standard fonts have no figure dash; however, the digits normally all have the same width as the en dash, so an en dash can be substituted in TeX.
En dash
The en dash is one en in width. By definition, this is by exactly half the width of an em dash.
The en dash is used to indicate a closed range, or a connection between two things of almost any kind: numbers, people, places, etc. For example:
June–July 1967
1:00–2:00 p.m.
For ages 3–5
pp. 38–55
New York–London flight
The ''Guide for the Use of the International System of Units (SI)'' recommends that the word "to" be used instead of an en dash when
Dash
According to the article, the ''figure dash'' (‒) is the same as the ''minus sign'' (−), but they are not the same.
1+2−3 not equal to 1+2‒3
Another example:
−‒−‒− ‒ − ‒ − ‒
In my font at least, they are not the same height or width, and only the minus sign corresponds to the plus sign.
Hyphen:
+-=-
-+-=
=
-----
Minus sign:
+−=−
−+−=
=
−−−−−
Figure Dash:
+‒=‒
‒+‒=
=
‒‒‒‒‒
- Omegatron 21:13, Mar 16, 2004 (UTC)
:The figure dash U+2012 (‒) is a dash with the exact width of a number, the minus sign U+2212 (−) is reserved for math operations. I'll try a rewrite. — Jor (Darkelf) 21:42, 16 Mar 2004 (UTC)
:I'm trying to figure out the reason they got mixed up, I think U+2012 was for some reason confused with U+2212. Both are used only with numbers, and of course 2012 looks like 2212. They are now properly distinguished in the article. — Jor (Darkelf) 21:53, 16 Mar 2004 (UTC)
::Thanks. I also posted on the manual of style talk page. - Omegatron
The phone number
Copied here and expanded:
634‒5789 is from the Steve Cropper/Eddie Floyd song of the same title originally recorded by Wilson Pickett in 1966, which also appeared in the Blues Brothers 2000 movie. Most phone companies world-wide refuse to give out the number, because for the past few decades since the song appeared on air it's being called many times daily. It has been covered by Jon Bon Jovi, Tina Turner, and many other artists. — Jor (Darkelf) 22:53, 16 Mar 2004 (UTC)
this is really strange -- I keep hitting an edit link for "Dash usage
question", the last one on the page, twice now, and I get the
" The phone number " section, not the
DASH
The Digital Audio Stationary Head or ''DASH'' standard was a digital audio tape format using open reels capable of recording 8, 16, 24 or more channels of audio on a one-inch or half-inch tape. The data is recorded on the tape linearly, with a stationary recording head, as opposed to in the DAT format, where data is recorded helically with a rotating head. The audio data is encoded as linear PCM with strong burst error correction, allowing the tape to by physically edited, e.g. by cutting and splicing, and played back with no loss of signal.
The DASH format also allowed the recording of low-quality cue tracks out-of-band from the program material.
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