DVD Demystified First Edition includes a sample disc with DVD-Video samples and DVD-ROM files. The disc was authored and pre-mastered by Rainmaker Interactive and replicated by Pioneer Video Manufacturing. This disc is only available in first-edition copies of DVD Demystified.
| Pioneer New Media Technologies (DVD basics) | The Power of DVD |
| 2014 (SHORT cinema journal) (animation, angles, parental lock) | Invention Big Story Henry Rollins |
| Dolby Laboratories (multichannel digital audio) | Dolby Digital Train Trailer Dolby Digital Canyon Trailer Dolby Digital Egypt Trailer Dolby Digital City Trailer |
| Lucasfilm THX (audio/video certification) | THX Theatrical Trailer ("Tex") THX Digital Mastering Trailer |
| Elite Entertainment | Lady In White Trailer |
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Videodiscovery (education, multilingual audio) | Origin of Earth's Atmosphere Telescope Mirror Lab |
| Third Planet Entertainment (computer graphics) | Planetary Traveler demo |
| Test patterns and samples | Video patterns Compression samples (2 Mbps to 8 Mbps) |