All DVD's are designed and produced to comply with the Universal Data Format (UDF) so that the following platforms are supported:

DOS • OS/2 • Mac OS and Mac OS X

Windows 98 / NT / 2000 / XP • UNIX

This ensures that any DVD can contain a wide range of interactive content. Many of us know this to be the BONUS feature.

The DVD-ROM partition can include items such as:

Interactive multimedia content

Games • Screen savers • Links to Web sites

Background information on the DVD subject matter, etc

Front end design is created using Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop software.

 

DVD-ROMs can be authored to automatically display a 'Welcome Screen' via AUTORUN.

This screen can be used as a 'DVD Menu Launcher' to access the interactive features on the ROM partition as well as having control to choose when to play the DVD-Video. The majority of DVD's on the market automatically launch the DVD-Video by default and rely on the menu screens within but do not allow access to other parts of your DVD-ROM when played on a computer. This 'DVD Menu Launcher' allows you total control and full BONUS access.

 

FULLY UPDATEABLE

The BONUS access information and data can be read in real-time from a web connection allowing the client to change the data remotely and so making this a fully updateable DVD. This technology can be a cost effective and powerful way of ensuring that information presented on the finished DVD remains current. Product details can be changed, prices modified and additional information added, all without issuing a new DVD.

Using UDF file architecture, all contents of the BONUS folder can be viewable on any of the following computer platforms:

DOS, OS/2, MacOS, MacOS X, Windows 98/NT/2000/XP and UNIX

In the same manner that Enhanced CDs include both audio content for a standard CD player and computer data for playback in a CD-ROM drive, a DVD disc can have player and computer partitions. The digital content and a wide range of interactive content can be included in the partition designed for the DVD player; this can include:

A director's commentary on a film's production issues, Alternative language editions etc.

The DVD-ROM partition can include:

• Interactive multimedia content - Details shown above on the
Department of Transport screen

• Games

• Screen Savers

• Background information

• Web site links showing related information on the relevant title

Each DVD is designed and authored to play back on any set-top DVD player and computers fitted with DVD-ROM drives to playback as DVD-video.

In addition DVD-ROM data was included to enable computer users to view a fully interactive multimedia presentation that was produced on a CD-ROM and accessed through the 'Extras' button on the main menu. This enabled computer users to gain additional information, navigate via keyboard for people with mobility impairments and utilise a print facility at any time.

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CD-ROM screens showing the addtional features of 'Picture Store' and 'Presentation Aid' buttons. This was included in the BONUS folder on the DVD-ROM