Video Production – DVD Authoring DVD’s have probably overtaken VHS tapes in popularity and the players can be purchased for about the same price as a video tape deck. The advantages of finishing your video on a DVD are many. DVD’s play on many computers. DVD players are in almost every home in the USA. DVD’s are inexpensive to mail. Video information does not degrade on DVD’s like analog VHS tapes. DVD’s are non-linear which allows users to jump around without rewinding or fast forwarding. DVD disks encode video in MPEG-2 which is a digital compression standard that allows up to 2 hours of content on standard DVD-R blank media. DVD-R videos are the most common burned disks and are compatible with almost every player manufactured in the 21st century. For short run projects, a single DVD-R master disk can be used to duplicate 100’s of copies. Duplication services run banks of DVD-R burners that copy your original in one pass. DVD-R disks also have a printable side that allows for short and long run graphics and simple text printing.