Archive for August, 2006

DVD CSS Encryption Cracked Again; This Time with Seven Lines of Code

Saturday, August 19th, 2006

DVD CSS Encryption Cracked Again; This Time with Seven Lines of Code
WinInfo - About a year and a half ago, a Norweigian teenager released to the public other code, called DeCSS, used to descramble DVD content. The DVD licensing group and members of the movie industry quickly moved to sue Web sites that linked to the DeCSS code

Don’t like your Mac? Swap it for decent PC

Friday, August 18th, 2006

Don’t like your Mac? Swap it for decent PC
Memphis Commercial Appeal - I have a Lite-On DVD burner. The manual says it is supposed to create a DVD-R at a speed of 16x. I have tried to burn several different [DVD data files], but kept getting an error message saying “disc is wrong.” I purchased several different brands

Sony promotes Nielsen to senior VP
Video Business - Previously VP of that unit, Nielsen will continue to manage trade and consumer advertising campaigns across all media channels for domestic and internationally released titles. Nielsen also will oversee packaging design and production on DVD, UMD and

British newspapers gave away an average of five free DVDs per
WebWire - This coincides with a marked decline in DVD sales, with average household purchases down from 12.5 DVDs in 2004 to 11.4 in 2005. In recent years the practice of cover-mounting free DVDs has been adopted by the national press in an attempt to

Video/DVD Releases
Richmond Times-Dispatch - Robin Williams stars as a harried dad who cons his family into scrapping their dream getaway in Hawaii and instead taking a road trip under the guise of renewing family ties when he’s really scheming to get to a critical business meeting. DVD, $28.95

‘V for Vendetta’ week’s top DVD
Hollywood Reporter - “V” stood for “victory” on the DVD sales and rental charts last week, as Warner Home Video’s edgy futuristic thriller “V for Vendetta” sailed into the No. 1 spot on both charts its first week in stores. “V for Vendetta” handily outsold its nearest

Your Daily Tech News Service…

Friday, August 18th, 2006

Your Daily Tech News Service…
Warp2Search - Jul 18, 2006… New: Added support for a new Sony ARccOS protection as found on “Odyssey 5″ (R2). - New: Improved CSS decryption for new Sony …

Acerca del programa
TechSpot - Jul 31, 2006… Making the subtitles transparent can greatly enhance the viewing experience. - Fix: AnyDVD could display “Arccos/Puppetlock” protection on copies. …

Movielink to allow movie transfers to DVDs?
engadget, CA - Jul 17, 2006… One would guess that the burned DVDs contain ARCCOS-like corruption that confuses DVD Shrink but is no trouble for actual DVD players. …

RipIt4Me 1.4.10.0

Thursday, August 17th, 2006

RipIt4Me 1.4.10.0
RipIt4Me is a small program that rips movies to your hard drive. It combines the power of DVD Decrypter, FixVTS, and DVD Shrink. It supports DVDs that software like DVD Shrink or DVD Decrypter cannot handle.

Software, operating systems and more: Windows - General discussion: COmp turns off no reason not virus or spyware.
Latest post to a thread “COmp turns off no reason not virus or spyware.” has been made by Morph416 at 17 August 2006 14:32

Half Life 2: Episode 2 - Portal video inside 

Thursday, August 17th, 2006

Half Life 2: Episode 2 - Portal video inside 
Free additional game. First look right here.

e - utilities 
Alarm Me is a reminder tool with several useful features. This small program, takes up very little space on HD, can sound an alarm whenever you need. It also provides a countdown timer which can be used to schedule a computer to Shutdown, Restart or Log Off, whenever one needs to.

Stick It 

Wednesday, August 16th, 2006

Stick It 
(2006) Starring: Missy Peregrym , Jeff Bridges Director: Jessica Bendinger Synopsis: A young woman from a dysfunctional family rediscovers her love of gymnastics and heads to the National Championships.

Secrets of the Pirate Bay 
Efforts to sink the word’s largest BitTorrent tracker backfired into political scandal and spurred even more downloading. But the three guys behind the Pirate Bay are facing a national controversy of their own. Part one of a two-part series by Quinn Norton, reporting from Malmo, Sweden. Plus: Gallery: The Faces of Sweden’s Pirate Wars

EU to probe new DVD format war

Wednesday, August 16th, 2006

EU to probe new DVD format war
Monsters and Critics.com, UK - Aug 1, 2006… investigate the licensing strategies currently being employed by Sony and Toshiba in the marketing of their next generation DVD formats Blue-ray Disc and …

Why a $500.00 Price Tag for an Ultra Mobile PC isn’t realistic
TabletPC2.com, CA - Aug 15, 2006… Unless of course, you want a Blue-Ray DVD player As an early adopter of new Blue-Ray DVD technology from Samsung or Sony, that will set you back $999.99. …

BluGlass turns attention to $6m float
The Age, Australia - Jul 28, 2006… The semiconductor can be used in light emitting diodes (LED) such as those used in mobile phones and to make blue ray lasers, which are increasingly used in …

HSBC Cuts Singulus EPS Estiamtes
newratings.com - Aug 4, 2006… Says the positive impact from the Staeg Hamatec integration should become visible in 2H, but a significant increase of the blue ray demand is unlikely to kick …

What’s new on video
Scripps News, DC - Jul 17, 2006… It’ll get your blood pumping, but it won’t show you anything new. (”The Benchwarmers.” Sony. DVD-Blue-Ray. 84 min. In stores July 25. Rated PG-13. …

Entertainment Media

Tuesday, August 15th, 2006

Entertainment Media
News Busters - tougher NC-17 rating on the first film, and was prepared for a battle on this one. The questionable content in Clerks II goes beyond anything we’ve ever presented in a film before, he noted. Don’t know what happened in the MPAA

Campaign shows who’s really the boss
Variety - That program, a magnificent exercise in sleight-of-hand engineered by former MPAA chief Jack Valenti, underscores just how much nonsense surrounds the question of children’s relationship with media — an issue that recurs, not coincidentally, with

EGT to Showcase HEMi, Head End Micro Edge Encoder

Tuesday, August 15th, 2006

EGT to Showcase HEMi, Head End Micro Edge Encoder
dBusinessNews Atlanta (press release), GA - Jul 24, 2006… DPI RateLock , the world s first video encoding feature that allows the cable systems to define and lock in the bandwidth rate for their commercial spots …

Samsung BD-P1000 Blu-ray Disc Player
guidetohometheater.com - Jul 16, 2006… It includes the quality of the original photography, the film to high-def master, and the compression to HD video (including the video encoding scheme). …

Microsoft Honors Tarari as “Partner of the Year” for Technology …
Business Wire (press release), CA - Aug 3, 2006″Tarari accelerates some of the toughest algorithms used in Security, XML and Video Encoding,” said Randy Smerik, President/CEO and co-Founder of Tarari, Inc. …

HD-DVD, BD duke it out
Fort Wayne News Sentinel, IN - Jul 17, 2006… BIT MANAGEMENT: With its first movie transfers, the Blu-Ray camp is courting techno tweaks - using a variation on the established video encoding scheme called …

”Classic Comedy Teams Collection” on DVD from Warner Home Video …

Monday, August 14th, 2006

”Classic Comedy Teams Collection” on DVD from Warner Home Video …
Business Wire (press release), CA - 10 hours agoBURBANK, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Aug. 14, 2006–On November 21, Warner Home Video tickles the funny bone with the release of “Classic …

DVD’s: The Child
Miami Herald, FL - 11 hours agoTHE CHILD (L’ENFANT) (Sony Pictures, $24.96): The sixth — and arguably best — movie from Belgian filmmaking brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (La Promesse …

Image says to distribute Relativity’s films on home video, DVD
Reuters - 11 hours ago… Image expects the deal to generate DVD and digital revenues in the hundreds of millions of dollars over the next few years, said the company which licenses …

LOCAL FITNESS DVD RECEIVES NATIONAL RANKING
dBusinessNews Indianapolis (press release), IN - 4 hours agoAugust 14, 2006) - The Indianapolis-based Go Mom Fitness Company s 15 To Fit Prenatal Fitness DVD was recently listed among the top five best prenatal …