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players and discs
On March 2, 1983 CD players and discs ( 16 titles from CBS Records ) were released in the United States and other markets.
Some drives use special techniques, such as Plextor's GigaRec or Sanyo's HD-BURN, to write more data onto a given disc ; these techniques are inherently deviations from the Compact Disc ( Red, Yellow, and / or Orange Book ) standards, making the recorded discs proprietary-formatted and not fully compatible with standard CD players and drives.
While disc players and drives may have capabilities beyond the standards, enabling them to read and write nonstandard discs, there is no assurance, in the absence of explicit additional manufacturer specifications beyond normal Compact Disc logo certification, that any particular player or drive will perform beyond the standards at all or consistently.
Therefore, discs with capacities larger than 650 MB, and especially those larger than 700 MB, are less interchangeable among players / drives than standard discs and are not very suitable for archival use, as their readability on future equipment, or even on the same equipment at a future time, is not assured, even under the assumption that the discs will not degrade at all.
Some players will use mid-ranges as drivers, and there are tournaments that require players to use only mid-range discs.
Most players that are starting off will be most likely throwing lighter discs.
Other modules in the system may include components like cartridges, tonearms, hi-fi turntables, Digital Media Players, digital audio players, DVD players that play a wide variety of discs including CDs, CD recorders, MiniDisc recorders, hi-fi videocassette recorders ( VCRs ) and reel-to-reel tape recorders.
* 1983 – Compact Disc players and discs are released for the first time in the United States and other markets.
While these used a similar format ( MPEG-1 ), due to minor differences between the standards these discs are not compatible with VCD players.
In addition to the normal Content Scramble System encryption, DIVX discs used Triple DES encryption and alternative channel modulation coding scheme, which prevented them being read in normal DVD players.
In total 87, 000 players were sold during 1998, with 535, 000 discs across 300 titles being sold.
DVD-Video discs are limited to 448 kbit / s, although many players can successfully play higher-rate bitstreams ( which are non-compliant with the DVD specification ).
A contributing factor may have been the inability of early CD players to reliably read discs with surface damage and offer anti-skipping features for applications where external vibration would be present, such as automotive and recreation environments.
All of the players were members of the Duke Ellington Orchestra, which would often split into smaller units to record small-band discs.
As guts evolved during the 1960s, players started throwing faster and faster, until it wasn ’ t unusual to see presumably unbreakable discs traveling at 60 – 70 mph shatter on impact with an unlucky defender ’ s hand.
The first DVD-Audio players were released in Japan by Pioneer in late 1999, but they did not play copy-protected discs.
Featuring remastered cutscenes from the series, it comes on two discs, allowing players to experience the series from the viewpoints of Kamille and Char.
Traditional carousel CD players hold three, five, or seven discs on a flat carousel tray.
Revoked keys simply will not appear on future discs, rendering the compromised players useless for future titles unless they are updated to fix the issue.
Blu-ray Disc goes one step further with a separate technique called BD +, a virtual machine that can execute code included on discs to verify, authorize, revoke, and update players as the need arises.
Edison would soon join the flat record market with his diamond discs and their players.

players and were
At one point in the game when the skinny old man in suspenders who was acting as umpire got in the way of a thrown ball and took it painfully in the kidneys, he lay there unattended while players and spectators wrangled over whether the ball was `` dead '' or the base runners were free to score.
Evegeni Dubovskoi conducted an exceptionally large orchestra, one containing excellent soloists -- the violin solos by the concertmaster, Guy Lumia, were especially fine -- but one in which the core of traveling players and the body of men added locally had not had time to achieve much unity.
The other players were undressing quietly.
" Asteroids was so popular that video arcade operators sometimes had to install larger boxes to hold the number of coins that were spent by players.
Like many games of its time, Asteroids contains several bugs that were mostly the result of the original programmers underestimating the game's popularity or the skill of its players.
During the Fourth Test news broke that prominent England players had agreed to take part in a " rebel tour " of South Africa the following winter ; three of them ( Tim Robinson, Neil Foster and John Emburey ) were playing in the match, and were subsequently dropped from the England side.
Some details were changed slightly to allow more player choice-for example, players can be full Trump Artists without having walked the Pattern or the Logrus, which Merlin says is impossible ; and players ' psychic abilities are far greater than those shown in the books.
Among the economic development institutions established in East Africa were companies such as the Diamond Jubilee Investment Trust ( now Diamond Trust of Kenya ) and the Jubilee Insurance Company, which are quoted on the Nairobi Stock Exchange and have become major players in national development.
This was all done under complete secrecy during the playing season because players were all free agents in those days and they did not want their current club and especially the fans to know they were leaving to play elsewhere the next year.
News of the signings by the Boston and Philadelphia players leaked to the press before the season ended, and all of them suffered verbal abuse and physical threats from the kranks, as baseball fans were called at the time, in Beantown and the City of Brotherly Love.
While the players were on the tour, the National League instituted new rules regarding player pay that led to a revolt of players, led by Ward, who started the Players ' League the following season ( 1890 ).
Although the Falcons selected many good players in those drafts, they still were not able to win right away.
By this time Colangelo and the other partners were embroiled in a dispute over the financial health and direction of the Diamondbacks ( and notably including over $ 150 million in deferred compensation to many players who were key members of the 2001 World Series winning team and others ).
As long as the machines were synchronized, the mix would sound more-or-less normal, but if the operator placed his finger on the flange of one of the players ( hence " flanger "), that machine would slow down and its signal would fall out-of-phase with its partner, producing a phasing effect.
Captain Attilio Ferraris along with Guido Masetti, Fulvio Bernardini and Rodolfo Volk were highly important players during this period.
While scratch matches were played by Australian " diggers " in remote locations around the world, the game lost many of its great players to wartime service.
The new rules mean that rather than representing the state of their adopted club, players would return to play for the state they were first recruited in.
There have been several players in the VFL / AFL who were born outside Australia and since 1982, an increasing number of players have been recruited from outside Australia through initiatives such as the Irish experiment and more recently, international scholarship programs.
In that year 136 identities were inducted, including 100 players, 10 coaches, 10 umpires, 10 administrators and six media representatives.

players and reverse
The ten outfield players may be arranged in these positions in any combination ( for example, there may be three defenders, five midfielders, and two forwards ), and the number of players in each position determines the style of the team's play ; more forwards and fewer defenders would create a more aggressive and offensive-minded game, while the reverse would create a slower, more defensive style of play.
The ' hard ' forehand edge hit was banned after similar concerns were expressed about the ability of players to direct the ball accurately, but the reverse edge hit does appear to be more predictable and controllable than its counterpart.
Left-handed players generally choose a left-handed ( mirror ) instrument, although some play in a standard right-handed manner, others play a standard right-handed guitar reversed, and still others ( for example Jimi Hendrix ) play a right-handed guitar strung in reverse.
Afterwards, the players reverse roles ; whoever can untangle the strings fastest is the winner.
Traditionally, North American, British, and French timpanists set their drums up with the lowest drum on the left and the highest on the right ( commonly called the American system ), while German, Austrian, and Greek players set them up in the reverse order, as to resemble a drum set or upright bass.
In-car cassette players were the first to adopt automatic reverse (" auto-reverse ") of the tape direction at each end, allowing a cassette to be played endlessly without manual intervention.
This may be partially counterbalanced by having the players choose their individual starting points in reverse order.
However, in the viola da gamba, it is the reverse ; thus violinists, violists, and cellists look like they are " pulling " on the strong beats when they play, whereas gamba players look like they are " stabbing " on the strong beats.
These high-end Laserdisc players could add features not normally available to CLV discs such as variable forward and reverse, and a VCR-like " pause ".
A number of players ( all diode laser based ) were made that were capable of playing both sides of the disc automatically ; at the end of the first side, or at the viewer's command, the machine would reverse the direction of the disc's rotation, simultaneously moving the laser pickup head to the other side of the disc, and then initiate playback.
The ' Midi ' is used by players who will be hitting the ball often and need to be strong on their ' reverse side '.
* Some players reverse all the scores, giving positive points for the first four contracts and negative points for Trex.
To choose one out of three, either reverse this ( the odd coin out is the winner ), or add a regular two-way coin flip between the remaining players as a second step.
Many players also have monetary incentives written in their contracts which are based on statistical measurements, and official scorers have the option to reverse a scoring decision within 24 hours of the conclusion of a game.
The same or new players can take the tie-break shots, which is also done in reverse order.
However, in rare occasions, players have been able to execute reverse sweeps for a six.
LaFontaine would have a promising career ahead as one of the team's best players, but he was unable to reverse the Islanders ' gradual slide.
The National Hockey League ( NHL ) teams selected 252 players eligible for entry into professional ranks, in the reverse order of the 1981 – 82 NHL season and playoff standings.
At the end of each round, all the cards on the table are turned over, returned to players and counted, using the distinctive marking on the reverse side unique to each player.
The Racing Club players already started celebrating, so the referee used that excuse not to reverse the decision.
Aside from the main game, there are three special gameplay modes accessible from Time Attack mode: reverse, in which racing occurs facing the opposite direction, break five balloons, and tag four players.
International isolation was keenly felt by the South African team at the time, including Pollock, and the players took measures to try to reverse the looming sporting boycott.

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