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[6.2] Who is making or supporting
DVD products?
[6.2.1] Consumer electronics
- Afreey:
DVD-Video players
- Aiwa: DVD-Audio
and DVD-Video players
- Akai: DVD-Video
players
- Alba: DVD-Video players
- Alpine:
DVD car navigation/entertainment
- Altec
Lansing: DVD audio technology
- Amitech: DVD-Video players
- Amoisonic:
DVD-Video players
- Apex
Digital: DVD-Video players (made by VDDV;
info at <www.nerd-out.com/apex>)
- Arcam:
DVD-Video players (UK)
- Ariston: DVD-Video players
- Atlantis Land: DVD-Video players
- A-trend: DVD-Video players
- Atta: DVD-Video players
- Audiologic: DVD-Video players
- Audiosonic: DVD-Video players
- Audiovox:
Car DVD players
- Axion: DVD-Video players
- AV Phile (Raite): DVD-Video Players
- Bluesky: DVD-Video players
- BUSH: DVD-Video players
- California
Audio Labs: DVD-Video players
- CAT: DVD-Video players
- Camelot:
DVD-Video players
- Casio:
DVD-Video players
- CCE: DVD-Video players
- CD Playright:
protective film for discs
- Centrum: DVD-Video players
- Chunlan: DVD-Video players
- Clairtone: DVD-Video players
- Clarion:
DVD car navigation/entertainment
- Comjet:
DVD-Video players with Web connection
- Compro:
DVD-Video players
- Conia: DVD-Video players (Australia, made by
VDDV)
- Cougar: DVD-Video players
- Cyberhome
(Yamakawa/Raite): DVD-Video players
- Daewoo Electronics: DVD-Video players
- Dantax: DVD-Video players
- Denon: DVD-Audio
and DVD-Video players
- Denver: DVD-Video players
- Digitor: DVD-Video players
- Digitron: DVD-Video players
- DiViDo:
DVD-Video players (Netherlands)
- Dual: DVD-Video players
- DVDO: video
deinterlacing processors
- Dynamic: DVD-Video players
- Eagle Wireless
International: DVD Internet appliances
- Eclipse: DVD-Video players
- Electrohome: DVD-Video players
- Elta: DVD-Video players
- Eltax: DVD-Video players
- Emerson
(Funai): DVD-Video players
- Encore: DVD-Video players
- Enzer:
DVD-Video players
- Esonic:
DVD-Video players
- ESS Technology:
DVD-Video players and WebDVD players
- Euro
Asia Technologies: DVD-Video players (UK)
- Faroudja:
DVD-Video players
- Finlux: DVD-Video players
- Fisher
(Sanyo): DVD-Video players
- Funai
(Emerson/Orion/Sylvania/Symphonic): DVD-Video players
- GE
(Thomson): DVD-Video players
- Genica: DVD-Video players
- Goodmans: DVD-Video players
- GPX/Yorx: DVD-Video players
- Gradiente: DVD-Video players
- Grandin: DVD-Video players
- Great Wall: DVD-Video players (Hong Kong)
- Grundig:
DVD-Video players
- Guangdong
Jinzheng Digital: DVD-Video players
- Gynco: DVD-Video players
- Haier: DVD-Video players
- Harman
Kardon: DVD-Video players
- Himage:
DVD-Video players
- Hitachi:
DVD-Video players and recorders
- Hiteker: DVD-Video players (made by VDDV)
- Homemighty: DVD-Video players
- Hoyo (Raite): DVD-Video Players
- Hyundai:
DVD-Video players
- iDVDBox:
Enhanced DVD-Video Players
- I-Jam:
DVD-Video players
- Innovacom:
PC/TV with DVD support
- Irradio: DVD-Video players
- Jasmine: DVD-Video players
- Jeutech: DVD-Video players
- JNL: DVD-Video players
- Jocel: DVD-Video players
- JVC
(Victor): DVD-Video players and recorders
- Kendo: DVD-Video players
- Kennex: DVD-Video players
- Kenwood:
DVD-Video players
- Keymat: DVD-Video players
- KiSS
(Raite): DVD-Video players
- Kioto: DVD-Video players
- KLH:
DVD-Video players
- Kones: DVD-Video players
- Konka:
DVD-Video players
- Labway:
DVD-Video players
- Lafayette:
DVD-Video and DVD-Audio players
- Lasonic
(Yung Fu): DVD-Video players
- Lawson: DVD-Video players
- Lecson: DVD-Video players
- Lector: DVD-Video players
- Legend: DVD-Video players
- Lenco: DVD-Video players
- Lenoxx: DVD-Video players
- LG Electronics
(GoldStar): DVD-Video players
- Lifetec: DVD-Video players
- Limit: DVD-Video players
- Loewe: DVD-Video players
- Logix: DVD-Video players
- Lumatron: DVD-Video players
- Luxman: DVD-Video players
- Madrigal
(Mark Levinson): DVD-Audio and DVD-Video players
- Magnavox (Philips): DVD-Video players
- Magnex: DVD-Video players
- Majestic: DVD-Video players
- Malata: DVD-Video players
- Manhattan:
DVD-Video players
- Marantz
(Philips): DVD-Audio, SACD, and DVD-Video players
- Mark: DVD-Video players
- Matsushita
(Panasonic/National/Technics/Quasar): DVD-Video players and recorders,
DVD-Audio players, DVD car navigation/entertainment
- Matsui: DVD-Video players
- Medion:
DVD-Video players
- Memorex: DVD-Video players
- Meridian:
DVD-Video players
- Metz: DVD-Video players
- MiCO: DVD-Video players
- Microboss:
DVD-Video players
- Micromega: DVD-Video players
- Minato: DVD-Video players
- Mintek: DVD-Video players
- Mishine: DVD-Video players
- Mitsubishi:
DVD-Video players
- Mitsui: DVD-Video players
- Monica/Monyka (Raite): DVD-Video players
- Mossimo: DVD-Video players (China)
- Mustek: DVD-Video players
- NAD: DVD-Video players
- Nakamichi:
DVD-Audio and DVD-Video players
- Napa: DVD-Video players
- NEC:
DVD-RAM video camera
- Neufunk: DVD-Video players
- Nintaus
(Guangdong Jinzheng): DVD-Video players
- Noriko: DVD-Video players
- Odyssey: DVD-Video players
- Olidata:
DVD-Video players (Italy)
- Omni: DVD-Video players
- Onkyo:
DVD-Video and DVD-Audio players
- Optics-Storage:
DVD-RW video recorders (supplier)
- Optim: DVD-Video players
- Orava: DVD-Video players
- Orion: DVD-Video players
- Oritron:
DVD-Video players
- Palsonic (Australia): DVD-Video players
- Panasonic
(Matsushita): DVD-Video players and recorders, DVD-Audio players
- Philco: DVD-Video players
- Philips
(Magnavox/Marantz/Norelco): DVD-Video players and recorders
- Phoenix: DVD-Video players
- Phonotrend: DVD-Video players
- Pioneer:
DVD-Video players and recorders, DVD-Audio players, DVD
car navigation/entertainment
- Primare: DVD-Video players
- Proceed: DVD-Video players
- Proline: DVD-Video players
- Proscan
(Thomson): DVD-Video players
- Proson: DVD-Video players
- Proton: DVD-Video players
- Quadro: DVD-Video players
- Raite:
DVD-video players (Taiwan)
- Rankarena: DVD-Video players
- RCA (Thomson):
DVD-video players
- RCR: DVD-Video players (China)
- REC: DVD-Video players (UK, made by VDDV, same as APEX)
- Redstar: DVD-Video players
- Revoy (Netherlands):
DVD-video players
- Roadstar: DVD-Video players
- Rotel: DVD-video players
- Rowa: DVD-Video players
- Runco: DVD-video
players and changers
- Saivod: DVD-Video players
- Sampo (Afreey): DVD-Video players
- Samsung:
DVD-Video players
- Samwin: DVD-Video players
- Sanyo:
DVD-Video players
- SAST: DVD-Video players
- Schaub Lorenz: DVD-Video players
- Schneider: DVD-Video players
- Scott: DVD-Video players
- SEG (Yamakawa/Raite): DVD-Video players
- Sharp:
DVD-Video players
- Shinco:
DVD-Video players (Hong Kong)
- Shinsonic: DVD-Video players
- Singer: DVD-Video players
- Skyworth: DVD-Video players
- SMC: DVD-Video
players
- Sonic Blue:
DVD-Video players and combo DVD-VHS players (formerly Sensory
Science and Go-Video)
- Sony:
DVD-Video players and changers
- Soyea: DVD-Video players
- Spatializer
Audio Laboratories: 3D audio processing
- Sublime:
DVD-Video players
- Sylvania
(Funai): DVD-Video players
- Symphonic
(Funai): DVD-Video players
- Tatung:
DVD-Video players
- Teac: DVD-Video
players
- Technics
(Matsushita): DVD-Video and DVD-Audio players
- Teknema
(Ravisent): Web-connected DVD-Video players
- Telestar: DVD-Video players
- Tevion: DVD-Video players
- Thakral:
DVD-Video players (China, Hong Kong)
- Theta: DVD-Video players
- Thomson
(RCA/G.E./Proscan/Ferguson/Nordmende/Telefunken/Saba/Brandt):
DVD-Video players
- Tokai (Raite): DVD-Video Players
- Toshiba:
DVD-Video players and recorders, DVD-Audio players
- Tredex: DVD-Video players
- Umax: DVD-Video players
- United: DVD-Video players
- Unity
Motion: DVD-Video players
- Universum: DVD-Video players
- Venturer: DVD-Video players
- Vialta
(ESS): WebDVD players
- Victor
(JVC): DVD-Video players
- Vieta: DVD-Video players
- Visual Disc and
Digital Video: DVD-Video players (China)
- Waitec: DVD-Video players
- Walkvision: DVD-Video players
- Wharfedale: DVD-Video players
- Wintel: DVD-Video players
- XMS: DVD-Video players
- Xwave: DVD-Video players
- Yamaha:
DVD-Audio and DVD-Video players
- Yamakawa (Raite): DVD-Video players
- Yami (Raite): DVD-Video players
- Yelo: DVD-Video players
- Yukai: DVD-Video players
- Zenith
(becoming a subsidiary of LG): DVD-Video players
[6.2.2] Studios, video publishers, and
distributors
DVD File
maintains a list of studio addresses, as well
as DVD producer and distributor information.
- A2O Entertainment (wholesale distributor)
- A.D. Vision (anime)
- Acorn Media
- Aftermath
Media (Tender Loving Care, interactive movie)
- All Day Entertainment
- Alphaville Pictures (distributed by Universal)
- Amazing Fantasy
- Amblin Entertainment (distributed by Universal)
- American Gramaphone
- American Software
- Anchor
Bay Entertainment
- Animeigo
- A-Pix Entertainment
- Artisan
Home Entertainment (formerly LIVE Entertainment)
- Arts & Entertainment DVD
- Atomic
Video (adult)
- Avalanche
- Baby
Einstein (infant development)
- Baker & Taylor (distributor)
- Beyond Music (distributor)
- Black Chair
Productions (independent films)
- Black Entertainment
Television (BET)
- BMG (Sonopress)
- Brentwood
- Brilliant Digital Entertainment (multipath movies)
- BroadcastDVD
- Buena Vista
Home Video (Disney)
- CAV Distributing
(distributor)
- Castle
Music Pictures (music performance)
- Castle
Home Video
- Cecchi
Gori
- Celebrity
- Central
Park Media
- Cerebellum
(educational)
- Chesky
- Classic Records
- Columbia TriStar
(Sony)
- Compact
Media (distributor)
- Concert @ Home (Platinum Entertainment)
- Concorde Video (12 Monkeys, German)
- Corinth Films (Wade Williams Collection)
- Creative Design Art
- Criterion
Collection
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- Delos International (mostly audio)
- Delta Entertainment
- Deluxe (distributor and replicator)
- DG Distributors (distributor)
- Diamond Entertainment (distributor)
- Digital Disc Entertainment
- Digital
Leisure (formerly ReadySoft) (Dragon's Lair, Space
Ace)
- Digital Multimedia
- Digital
Versatile Disc
- Dimension
Films (Miramax)
- Direct Source
- Direct Video Distribution (distributor, UK)
- Disney
(Buena Vista Home Video, Dimension Films, Hollywood Pictures,
Miramax, Touchstone)
- Dream Theater
- DreamWorks
SKG
- DVD
International (distributor)
- D-Vision
- Eaton Entertainment
- Elite
Entertainment
- EMI Records
- E Real Biz
- Essex Entertainment
- Fantoma
- Filmways
(distributor, Argentina/Spain)
- FOCUSFilm Entertainment
- Fox Lorber
- Front Row
- Full
Moon Pictures
- Gainax (anime)
- General Media Communications (Penthouse) (adult)
- Goldhil Home Media
- Goodtimes
Entertainment
- Gramercy Pictures (distributed by Universal)
- Hallmark Home Entertainment (Artisan)
- HBO Home Video
(Warner)
- HODIE
(multimedia recording label)
- Hollywood
Pictures (Disney, folded into Touchstone)
- Hot Body International (adult)
- Ice Storm Entertainment (distributor, Germany)
- Ideal Entertainment
- Image
Entertainment (distributor)
- Impressive (adult)
- IndieDVD (publisher; alliance of independent
filmmakers)
- Ingram (distributor)
- Key East
- King's Road (distributed by Trimark)
- Kino International
- Laserdisc Entertainment (adult)
- Laserlight
- Lee & Lee Films
- Leo Films
- Living Arts (health)
- LucasFilm (distributed by Twentieth Century
Fox or Paramount)
- Lucerne
Media (educational)
- Lumivision (distributed by SlingShot)
- Lyric
- MacDaddy
- Madacy
- Magic Lantern
- Marin
Digital (Your Yoga Practice)
- Master Tone
- MCA (Universal)
- MCA Music
- Media Galleries
- Media
Group (distributor)
- Metro Global Media (adult)
- Metromedia
- MGM/UA (Warner)
- Mill Reef (Earthlight)
- Miramax Films
(Disney)
- Monarch Home Video
- Monterey
- MPI Home
Video
- MTI
- Multimedia 2000
(aka M-2K)
- Music Video Distributors (distributor)
- N2K Music
- Navarre
(distributor)
- NET TEN
(distributor)
- Nettwerk Productions
- New Horizons Home Video
- New Line
(Warner)
- New Video Group
- New Vision
- New York Entertainment
- NuTech Digital (adult)
- October Films (Universal)
- Opera World
- Orion Pictures (MGM, some older DVD titles distributed
by Image and Criterion)
- Overseas Filmgroup
(distributor, partner with Image)
- Pacific Digital
- Palm
Pictures
- Panasonic Interactive Media (defunct)
- Panorama
- Paramount
Home Video (owned by Viacom)
- Parasol
- Passport Video
- Phantom Video
- Picture This Home Video
- Pioneer
Entertainment (distributor)
- Platinum
- Playboy Home Video
- PM Entertainment
- Polygram (Philips partner)
- Pony Canyon (Japan)
- PPI Entertainment
- Private Media
Group (adult)
- Pro7 Home Entertainment (Germany)
- Program Power
- Real Entertainment
- Red Distribution (distributor)
- Renegade
- Republic Pictures (defunct, distributed by Artisan)
- Rhino
Home Video
- Roadshow Entertainment (Australia)
- Roan Group
- Rykodisc
- Samsung Entertainment Group
- Shanachie
- Showtime
- Simitar Entertainment
- Sierra Vista Entertainment (Innovacom)
- Silver Screen
- SlingShot
(acquired Lumivision titles)
- Sony Music
Entertainment
- Sony Pictures (Columbia, Epic, Sony Music, Sony
Wonder, TriStar)
- Sony Wonder
(kids)
- Steeplechase
- Sterling Home Entertainment
- Super Digital Media
- SyCoNet.com (distributor, anime)
- Synapse
Films
- Tai Seng
- Technicolor
(distributor and replicator)
- Tempe Entertainment
- Toho (Japan)
- Tone Home
Video
- Toshiba EMI
- Touchstone
(Disney)
- Trimark
Pictures
- Troma Entertainment
- Turner Home Entertainment
- Twentieth
Century Fox Home Entertainment
- Unapix Entertainment
- United American
- United Artists (MGM)
- Universal
Studios Home Video (owned by Seagram)
- USA
- U.S. Laser
- Valley
Media (distributor)
- VCA Interactive
(VCA Pictures, VCA Labs; adult)
- VCI Home
Video
- Ventura
- Victor Entertainment (JVC)
- Victory
- Video Watchdog
- Video One Canada (distributor)
- Vidmark
- Vista Street
- Vivid Video
(adult)
- Walt
Disney Pictures
- Warner Bros. Records/Warner Music (Toshiba partner)
- Warner Home
Video (Toshiba partner)
- Waterbearer Films
- WIT Entertainment
(distributor)
- WGBH
- WWF Home Video
- Wolfe
- World Video
- Xenon
- Xoom
- York
[6.2.3] Hardware and computer components
[6.2.4] Computer software titles on DVD-ROM
- 2 Way Media: Launch
- Access Software: Overseer, Tex Murphy
- Acclaim Entertainment: Reah
- Accolade: Jack Nicklaus 4, Family Spectacular
- Action
Zone: games
- Activision (Quicksilver): Muppet Treasure Island,
Spycraft: The Great Game, Zork: The Grand Inquisitor
- Aftermath
Media: Tender Loving Care
- ALLDATA: automotive information databases
- Aludra: Beat 2000 DVD, Language Tutor DVD, Virtual
Makeover DVD
- Apple
Computer: Mac OS Anthology (available to developers only)
- BBC Interactive
- Black Isle Studios (Interplay): Baldur's Gate
- Broderbund:
Riven, PrintMaster Platinum, ClickArt 300,000.
- Byron Preiss/Simon & Schuster: The Timetables
of Technology
- ComChoice:
Marketing, sales, and training
- Creative
Multimedia: Billboard Music Guide, Blockbuster Entertainment
Guide to Movies and Video
- Creative Wonders (The Learning Company): Schoolhouse
Rock, Sesame Street, Wide World of Animals
- DeLorme:
AAA Map'n'Go DVD Deluxe
- Data Becker: Clipart Collection, Sound Collection
- Digital Directory Assistance: PhoneDisc PowerFinder
USA One
- Digital
Versatile Disc: Shaodan
- Digital
Leisure: Dragon's Lair, Hologram Time Traveler, Space Ace
- Discovery
Channel: Leopard Son/Animal Planet, Connections
- Dorling Kindersley
- Electronic Arts:
Wing Commander IV
- Electronic Publishing Association: LANGMaster
Collins COBUILD Student Dictionary
- EuroTalk
Interactive: Language Learning
- Firebrand:
Lost in Crazy Town
- genX
Software: Dead Moon Junction
- Global
Star Software: 100 Great Action Arcade Games, Excessive Speed,
Gubble, 303 Professional Legal Forms
- Graphix Zone
- Grolier: Multimedia Encyclopedia
- GT Entertainment: Forrest Gump, Reah
- Hachette Multimedia: Hachette Encyclopedia
- IBM Interactive Media: The Pistol: The Birth
of a Legend
- Index+:
Dracula Resurrection, Dracula the Last Sanctuary, Louvre the Final
Curse
- Interactual
Technologies: Star Trek VideoSaver
- Interplay: Baldur's Gate, Starfleet Academy
- Into Networks: PlayNow (unlockable games)
- IVS: The Union Catalogue of Belgian Research
Libraries
- Japan Travel Bureau: DVD-Web product
- Kunskapsforlaget
(Sweden): Focus Encylopedia
- The Learning Company (SoftKey): Battles of the
World, Clickart, Digital Library, The Genius of Edison, National
Geographic, Printmaster 7.
- Liris (Havas) Interactive: Découvertes (Junior
Discovery)
- Magnum
Design
- Mechadeus: The Daedalus Encounter
- MediaGalleries:
Multimedia Bach
- MediaOne: VersaDisc
- Microsoft:
Encarta, MSDN/TechNet, Works Suite
- Mill Reef:
Earthlight, Coral Sea Dreaming
- Mindscape
- Mitchell
Repair Information Company: ON-DEMAND
- Monolith:
Claw
- Montparnasse
Multimedia: Microcomsos, Voyage to the land of the Pharaohs
- Multimedia 2000
(aka M-2K, formerly Multicom): Birds of the World; Bubblegum Crisis;
HomeDepot's Home Improvement 1-2-3; Warren Miller's Ski World
'97; Exploring National Parks; Great Chefs, Great Cities; Better
Homes and Gardens Cool Crafts
- Natif
- NB Digital/Mill Reef: Earthlight
- Not A Number: Blender
- Oeil Pour
Oeil: Death Dealer
- Organa:
The Book of Lulu
- Pro CD: Select Phone
- Project Two Interactive: Reah (distributed by
GT in U.S., Acclaim in UK and Ireland)
- Psygnosis:
Lande
- Red Orb Entertainment:
- Sega: 4 game/instruction titles to be released
in early 1997
- Sierra Online
- Sumeria:
Vanishing Wonders of the Sea, Wild Africa
- SuperZero: adult DVD-Video
- SuSE: SuSE
Linux 6.3
- TerraGlyph
Interactive Studios: Buster and the Beanstalk (Tiny Toons)
- Torus Games
- Tsunami: Crazy 8's, Silent Steel, Silent Steel
II
- VR Sports (Interplay): Virtual Pool
- Warner Advanced Media
- Westwood Studios: Command & Conquer
- Zombie VR Studios: Liberty
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