CSS

Content Scrambling System (CSS), implemented by the DVD Consortium, implements the Analog Protection System (APS) and the Data Encryption Standard (DES), to protect the contents of a DVD-Video title from being downloaded or dumped and reused. One major option that implements the APS is Macrovision (to degrade the analog stream being copied). The technology involves special DES algorithms to scramble critical sectors of the DVD-Video, creation of special 'keys' for guiding the descrambling process by chips in the DVD-player or on an add-in board in the PC, and use of an APS to prevent an analog signal be diverted or captured 'clear' or at high quality (before it reaches the monitor or TV screen).

Aspect Ratio
AVI
Bandwidth
Beta SP
Blu-Ray
Byte
Capacity of CD-ROM
Capacity of DVD
CD
CD Business Card
CD Duplication
CD-R Duplication
CD-Recordable
CD Replication
CD-R Replication
CD-ROM
Compression

CSS
DAT
DLT and SDLT
Digital Asset Management
Digital Bin
Digitization
DVCAM
DVD
DVD Authoring
DVD Duplication
DVD Replication
DVD-R
DVD-Audio
Encoding
Frame Rate
Full-motion Video

HD DVD
High Definition DVD
Injection Molding
Jewel Case
JPEG
Macrovision
Mini CD
Mini DVD
MPEG
Multimedia
NTSC
PAL
Replication
ROM
SECAM
Variable Bit Rate