Flexible Format Support
PhotonTV creates a wide range of VideoCD disks including
Video CD (VCD2.0), Super Video CD (SVCD), and XSVCD. This provides compatibility with the widest range of DVD players, with the ability to provide the highest level of VideoCD quality.

VideoCDs created with PhotonTV can be played on most hardware and software (Mac/PC based) DVD players. Support for the VideoCD format allows anyone with a CD burner to create PhotonTV disks - a DVD burner isn't required.

High Resolution Stills with Transitions
PhotonTV uses a special mode of VideoCDs to display photos at almost twice the resolution as a movie or motion image. In addition, PhotonTV can combine these high resolution still images with smooth transitions. Unlike other products, with PhotonTV you don't have to choose whether you want to create a show with sharp looking photos and no transitions, or fuzzy looking photos with transitions. PhotonTV lets you have both. Sharp photos and great transitions, all in the same show.

VideoCDs and DVDs use compression or "encoding" to allow hours of media to be stored on a single disk. The type of encoding and technology behind it makes a significant difference on the quality and amount of compression that can be acheived. The MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 encoding provided with PhotonTV is the result of years of research and development, and is the same encoding used by professional video products that cost thousands of dollars.

With the standard PhotonTV encoder settings, your shows will look great. But PhotonTV goes beyond that, giving you advanced control over DVD and encoder settings to completely customize and optimize the encoding. If you want higher compression and lower quality, you can do that. if you want still photos to have the absolute highest quality and are willing to allow transitions to have slightly lower resolution, you can do that. There are even parameters to tweak to allow DVD players that won't typically play other VideoCDs to play PhotonTV disks.