While many technologies remain out-of-reach for households in
the developing world, one exception to this rule is that of
entertainment technologies. Even in poor communities, there is a
strong drive to own devices such as TVs and, increasingly, DVD
players. Though they are typically used for video content,
ordinary DVD players also support rich interactivity and
programmability, including the capability to browse over 100,000
menus using the remote control. In this work, we have stretched
the limits of the capabilities of DVD players by mapping a large
subset of Wikipedia to a TV-DVD. Our disc contains the entirety
of schools-wikipedia.org, encompassing almost 6,000 articles and
250,000 screens on TV. Using the interactive capabilities of DVD
players, we have preserved all of the major functionality of
Wikipedia, including indexing, search, hyperlinks, and
forward/backward navigation. We expect that such DVDs will have
a large audience in poor communities that often lack access to
rich educational materials.