Before its third birthday in March 2000, DVD had become the most successful consumer electronics entertainment product ever, saturating the market faster than videotape, CD, and laserdisc. Most companies have either replaced their VHS players in their conference rooms with DVD players or added them as an option. The average American family already has a DVD player in their home.

DVD has encompassed home entertainment, computers, and business information with a single digital format, replacing audio CD, videotape, laserdisc, CD-ROM, and video game cartridges. DVD has widespread support from all major electronics and computer hardware companies, as well as every movie and music studio in the industry.

This success is not by accident, DVD offers options not attainable by previous products. A DVD is essentially a bigger, faster CD (Compact Disc)  that can hold cinema-like video, better-than-CD audio, and computer data. DVD has the ability to combine the high points of existing technologies into one package that is easily trasported and delivered. Some of those points are:

• Over 8 hours of high-quality digital video (or 30 hours of VHS quality video).
• Menu-driven interface for access to the disc's content
• Instant rewind and fast forward
• Instant search to title, chapter, music track, and timecode.
• Durable (no wear from playing, only from physical damage).
• Compact size (easy to handle, store, and ship; players can be portable)
• Replication is cheaper than tapes or laserdiscs.
• Automatic "seamless" branching of video (for multiple story lines or ratings on one disc).
• Multilingual support. (eliminates multiple tapes for different languages)
• Support for widescreen video content on standard or widescreen TVs (4:3 and 16:9 aspect ratios).
• Not susceptible to magnetic fields. Resistant to heat

Why FlashPoint?
Most companies offering DVD authoring come exclusively from a video production background. This leads to a product that is quite bland, and does not take advantage of a DVD's many possibilities. FlashPoint has agents with both video and computer graphics/programming experience. This leads to a rich, attention-getting  product that your audience will not soon forget!
FlashPoint offers multiple DVD creation options for all types of needs, from authoring a feature film with widespread replication, to a one-off disc for a trade show.

Contact us today for more information on our DVD solutions.