Closed Captioning
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| Type of format | Captioning Format | |
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| First Version | 1972 (Line 21 Standard) | Last Version (for BD) | 1990 (EIA-608 Standard) |
| Developer | National Captioning Institute (NCI), Electronic Industries Alliance (EIA) | |
| Open Format? | Yes | |
| Free Format? | ? | |
| File Extension | .bin, .scc |
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| Magic Number | ff ff ff ff |
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Closed Captioning (CC) is a process of displaying text on a television, video screen, or other visual display to provide additional or interpretive information. Closed Captioning is not part of the Blu-ray standard and it's an optional feature for displaying subtitles.
Read more »xvYCC
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| Type of format | Exapanded Color Space | |
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| First published | 2007 | |
| Developer | Sony | |
| Filename extension | ? | |
| Open Format? | ? | |
| Free Format? | ? | |
| Magic Number | ? | |
xvYCC or EXtended-gamut YCC) (or by it's copyrighted name x.v.Color) is a color space that extends the range of the standard YCC color space to support a wider gamut of colors.
Read more »MGVC
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| Type of format | Lossless video format | |
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| First published | 2013 | |
| Developer | Panasonic | |
| Filename extension | .bin
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| Open Format? | No | |
| Free Format? | No | |
| Magic Number | None | |
Master Grade Video Coding (or MGVC) is a proprietary video codec developed by Panasonic. It enhances the video and offers 36-bit color depth (68,719,476,736 colors) using 12-bits per color. It is somewhat similar to Dolby Vision and HDR10+, but for standard BD.
Unicode
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| Type | Text encoding standard | |
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| Developer | Unicode Consortium | |
| First Release | 1991 | |
| Open Format? | Yes | |
| Free Format? | Yes | |
Unicode is a standard character set: an assignment of numeric values to characters. A huge number of characters from various writing systems (modern or ancient), as well as special symbols of many types, are each given a number.
Read more »JavaScript
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| Type | Programming /scripting language | |
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| Paradigm | Multi-paradigm: event-driven, functional, imperative, procedural, object-oriented | |
| Designed by | Brendan Eich of Netscape initially; others have also contributed to the ECMAScript standard | |
| Developer | ECMA (Current) | |
| First appeared | December 4 1995 | |
| Typing discipline | Dynamic, weak, duck | |
| Open Format? | Yes | |
| Free Format? | Yes | |
| Filename extensions | .js* |
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| Magic Number | None | |
JavaScript (sometimes abbreviated JS) is a scripting language commonly implemented as part of a web browser in order to create enhanced user interfaces and dynamic websites, but also used in other contexts (such as server-side JavaScript). This is not the same as Java. People constantly get confused about that.
Read more »Multi-Angel Viewing
Like DVD, Blu-ray allows multi-angle viewing, giving viewers the ability to observe different perspectives of the same scene using the Angle button on the remote.
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THX
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| Type of format | Quality Assurance Standard | |
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| First released | 1983 | |
| Developer | Tomlinson Holman at Lucasfilm | |
| Open Format? | No | |
| Free Format? | No | |
THX (Tomlinson Holman's Xperiment) is a high-fidelity audio/visual reproduction standard and quality assurance system for movie theaters, screening rooms, home theaters, computer speakers, gaming consoles, and car audio systems. It was developed by Tomlinson Holman at George Lucas's company, Lucasfilm, in 1983. The THX system is not a recording technology or a sound format, and it does not specify a sound recording format: all sound formats (Dolby, DTS, PCM) can be "shown in THX." The iconic crescendo used in the THX trailers, created by Holman's coworker James A. Moorer, is known as the "Deep Note".
Read more »D-BOX
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| Type of format | Haptic Data | |
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| First released | 2001? | |
| Developer | D-BOX Technologies Inc. | |
| Filename extensions | .klk, .iid, .syn
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| Open Format? | No | |
| Free Format? | No | |
| Magic Number | None | |
D-BOX is a haptic motion technology format from D-BOX Technologies Inc. It's not part of the Blu-ray specifications but it's an optional peripheral feature.
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