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Vivid vs. HTC

Lets say you're making a display, and you want to call yourself 'vivid' because well, you make displays that are vivid. (Or maybe you're HTC making a phone you want to brand that way, same deal) and someone else wants to equally correctly, but in a completely different context brand themselves 'vivid'.

Heh, dude. Vivid entertainment[NSFW] is one of the top porn producers in the United States. Either I've been subtly and cleverly trolled, or you are psychic.

Out of all the movies with vivid stars, I'd say that one is the most boring by far.

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Perhaps they are referring to video files in general.

Hmmm... What kinds of video files could 1 in 4 internet users possibly be downloading?

"It's not like muscles and sexual organs have much to do with acting ability after all."

I think these people would disagree.

...further efforts by the same school to trick children into getting their education include a recent announcement that the films they show in their Sex Education classes will be produced exclusively by Vivid Video. Additionally, Asia Carrera has been hired by the school to teach a few computer classes.

~Philly

This is the best idea I've seen (of many good ideas on Slashdot) in a while.

DVD is not perfect; outside of theology (including Deep Physics), nothing is. But DVD has incredible potential for data interchange, as well as its obvious / not-so-obvious capacity for music and video.

DVD-18 (double-sided, double-layer -- DSDL) discs can hold up to 8 hours of video with --from memory, corrections invited -- 17 GB of data.

DSDL discs are difficult to manufacture and are as yet very uncommon, so they're not the best examples, perhaps, but even single-sided discs hold Gigabytes on a neat little platter.

DVD-ROM drives play CD-ROMs fine (though with reputedly mixed results on CD-R and CD-RW, due to the interactions of dye-colors and laser wavelengths), so backward compatibility is not a problem.

The main difference is, with a full-capacity DVD, you could have as much data as on more than 25 CD-ROMs! You could try out slackware, red hat, debian, yellow dog, turbo linux and many more ... on a disc that comes in one jewel case.

Commerical software houses are probably going to expand on the old idea of sending a disc and selectively unlocking individual pieces of it.

DVD will be around for a long time, and Linux will start to age prematurely if no Open DVD standard emerges. It may take cooperation from the companies who make DVD hardware (and their standards consortia), but as Linux becomes more and more of an Obvious Choice, it would be silly if they didn't recognize that they could be selling their hardware to millions of users, if only those users could use DVDs on their systems.

Just some thoughts,

timothy

p.s. And of course, you could try out that "scientifically interesting" multi-angle DVD video you borrowed from your roommate. (Hint: the scientific company with the most multi-angle titles is Vivid Video) ...