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Backwards-compatible with VCD 1.1, 2.0, and 3.0, SVCD supports higher resolutions and 2.2Mbps variable bitrate (VBR) MPEG-2 video encoding, as well as MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 audio encoding. The resolution of SVCD video is 480x576 (PAL) and 480x480 (NTSC), up from VCD's 352x288 (PAL) resolution. SVCD supports 5.1 audio, but it is not Dolby 5.1. You must use a 2x or faster CD-ROM drive to read SVCDs, as opposed to 1x drives for
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Super Video CD - By Paul BoutinGoogle co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page were the heroes of theNet from the moment they launched their better-than-the-rest searchengine in 1998, right up until two weeks ago. On April 1, theyannounced plans for Gmail , a Googleized alternative to the freeWeb-based e-mail services offered by Hotmail, Yahoo!, and a slew ofsmaller companies. Depending on your take, Gmail is either too good tobe true, or it's the height of corporate arrogance, especially comingfrom a company whose house motto is "Don't Be Evil."At first, Web hipsters dismissed Gmail as an April Fool's hoax. ButGoogle's offer is real. Gmail will provide each user an entiregigabyte of free e-mail storage. That's about 250 times the 4-megabytelimit of a basic Yahoo! Mail account and 10 times Hotmail's100-megabyte "super-user" package, which costs $60 a year. In returnfor all that inbox space, Google wants just one favor: to be allowedto scan the content of your incoming messages and servecontent-targeted ads alongside them.If you haven't tried it, it sounds creepy. But after a week of testingthe prerelease version of Gmail, I'm on the other side of the fence.Gmail isn't an invasion of privacy, and its ads are preferable to thegiant blinking banners for diets and dating services that are splashedacross my other Web mail accounts.http://slate.msn.com/id/2098946/
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