DVD Duplication--Tips and Advice to Create Affordable Multiple CopiesWritten by Larry Denton
It's gonna happen whether you like it or not. Your beloved collection of treasured VHS tapes will soon be sitting next to your 8 Track tapes and vinyl record albums. It is a format that is slowly, but surely, coming to its demise. The replacement? DVDs, of course. By basic definition, DVD is an acronym for digital versatile disc, and by rapidly growing in popularity, this optical disc is making DVD duplication a growing market as well. Thanks to smaller, more powerful and more affordable chips, technology of every variety that once was available to only largest corporations is now within reach of nearly any size business, and many consumers for home usage. First it was computers and digital printers--now DVD duplication systems have become an affordable commodity. DVD duplication is a awesome technology. If you want an extra copy of a movie you bought, or want to produce backup copies of your games, DVD's or VHS tapes, this is your solution. DVD duplication is similar to process used to print information on a CD. It's a burn-and-print technology that involves very little set-up and is quite simple using some of new software that is currently available. The technology to reproduce DVDs, once available to productions studios and giant corporations, is now available at affordable prices for businesses and organizations both large and small. Churches, in particular, are using this new media technology. "In past, churches recorded sermons and music on cassette," recalls Tony van Veen, Disc Makers' Vice President of Sales and Marketing. "These tapes often lacked quality and took hours, even days, to reproduce. Today, with consumer demand for quality, and popularity of DVDs, churches must embrace this new technology or risk falling behind." Even if you do not want to become and independent film maker, DVD duplication is useful for a multitude of reasons. Maybe you would like to create a training product demonstration, a Power Point presentation for work, or make a how-to-video to help employees understand new software. Perhaps you want to video annual company softball game/picnic and give copies to everyone. Or you would like to provide a DVD of your wedding ceremony to each of your guests. With prices starting below $1,600, these new technical marvels are fast becoming a main stay in many businesses.
| | Lost About GPS? Here's Some Direction!Written by Keith Thompson
If you've been confounded by all technical jargon and hype surrounding GPS, confusing what's turning out to be a very useful tool, allow me to shed a little light on your roadmap to deciding whether or not this technology is for you! Originally designed with military applications in mind, technology was made available to mere mortals in hte 1980's for many and varied uses we've found so far for these special tools. Not only handy for auto navigation, GPS units have made their way into maritime navigation, backcountry uses, and much, much more!How does GPS work? GPS (which stands for Global Positioning System) allows you to pinpoint your position anywhere on planet to within an average of 15 meters, with some units doing much better than that. Twenty-four GPS satellites, paid for and placed in orbit by Dept. of Defense courtesy of your tax dollars, send signals back to terra firma 24/7. These signals are retrieved by your handy dandy GPS receiver which uses three sources (satellites) to triangulate this information and compute your actual position. If there are four data sources, even altitude can be determined. Since there are normally eight satellites in line of sight from anywhere on earth, opportunity for accurate positioning exists. Other things that can be determined besides latitude, longitude, and altitude would include things like speed, sunrises and sunsets, bearing, distance and more. While they will work in any weather, some hindrances would be electronic interference, buildings, and certain terrain. A good rule of thumb is that units will generally not perform underwater, indoors, or underground. There are currently two Global Navigation Satellite Systems in use. Besides GPS, there is Russian Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS) Protocols are constantly being refined to enhance abilities of these systems. A bright light on horizon is Galileo, scheduled to go online in 2008, which promises even greater accuracy and functionality.
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