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Line 3: To develop a DVD application ([[software]] or [[hardware]]), one must first [[licence]] the particular book of DVD specifications from [[DVD Format/Logo Licensing Corporation]], a Japanese corporation. The different DVD formats have different books; each book runs to many hundreds of pages and costs approximately $5000. After obtaining this licence, the [[developer]] is required to become a licensee which requires additional fee. Without becoming a licensee, the book can be used only for reference, not for actual creation of DVD applications. The DVD specifications were ~~apparently~~ written in [[Japanese language\|Japanese]] and then translated to [[English Language\|English]] using prose that often rivals the [[Readability\|complexity]] of [[legal document]]s. To this day, many companies interpret various parts of the specifications in different ways. This is the reason DVD players from different manufacturers do not always conform to the same rules – each developer understands the specifications in a slightly different way. ==History== There are many DVD authoring applications available to help create DVD-Video discs. Many high-end authoring applications are written in-house by companies such as [[Matsushita]], [[Philips]], or[[Sony]], and [[Toshiba]]. These are strictly [[not for sale]] outside each company and are used internally by the company DVD laboratories or their [[movie studio]] partners to produce DVDs for customers. One particular high-end DVD authoring software package is [[Scenarist]], available for sale from the very beginning by [[Daikin]], a large Japanese air conditioning and refrigeration contracting company, which partnered with [[Sonic Solutions]] for development and marketing in the U.S.. The software was translated to English and has since become the standard for DVD production in [[Hollywood]] amongst other places. Like the other high-end and very expensive systems, it complies to the DVD specifications more closely than other software. In 2001, [[Sonic Solutions]] acquired the DVD authoring business, including [[ReelDVD]] and Scenarist, from Daikin.

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