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BluffTitler 5.06
Create dazzling 3D titles for your videos and photos with BluffTitler DX9. Want to bluff your friends and clients with cool 3D titles? But dont want to spend a fortune on professional 3D animation and video titling software? BluffTitler is the easiest way to add 3D text animations to your photos and videos!

Warner makes HD Hybrid disc a possibility?
According to patent discovered by New Scientist, Warner has been brainstorming on the possibility of a hybrid disc that could store HD DVD and Blu-Ray data on one side and DVD data on the other (possibly..

Womble MPG Video Wizard: How to edit the titles of the chapters on the menu
Hi all, Please, I’ve tried authoring my first DVD in Womble MPG Video Wizard, but I haven’t found a way to change the names of the “chapter 1″, “chapter 2″ titles; I’ve right-clicked everywhere on the screen, no “rename” function found, any guess ? Thanks, Zetti

Articles from 2.01.2005 to 2.28.2005 :
eWeek - Consumer Anti-Spyware Tool Will Be Free Symantec Enhances Spyware Capture and Removal New Tech Prevents DVD Copying, Kills ‘Rippers’ 2.14.2005 Enterprise Security, Compliance Prove Hot Topics at Demo McAfee Updates Anti-Spyware Enterprise Microsoft Preps a

NYC police nab 40,000 bootlegged discs
Seattle Post Intelligencer - NEW YORK — Police confiscated about 40,000 bootlegged discs and scores of CD and DVD burners Thursday in raids that industry leaders called a significant blow to the nation’s piracy market. The Recording Industry Association of America and the

Firstcoastnews.com Article
First Coast News - Before now, Hollywood movies purchased through Cinema Now could be watched on a personal computer or a TV hooked up to a computer — but not transferred to a DVD. Studios have been reluctant to offer movies for at-home DVD copying because of piracy

Father sold fake films on internet
This Is Lancashire, UK - Sep 6, 2006… Marland, prosecuting, said police and trading standards officers raided the house on July 19, 2005, and found two personal computers, a DVD copying machine and …

Piracy: all it takes is a garage
Ars Technica, MA - Sep 15, 2006… And here in the US, police in Brooklyn just announced a raid on a large-scale CD and DVD copying business that will, apparently, be “a significant blow to the …

DivX, CommVault IPOs gobbled up
MarketWatch - Sep 22, 2006… DivX became prominent by giving away its video compression and DVD copying software for free at first, and then using its wide footprint to become a leading …

Last call for York Beach Cinema
York Weekly, ME - Aug 30, 2006… 2. We urge everyone to attend the last movie, “Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man’s Chest,” at 8 pm — not to support Johnny Depp — but to show their …

All new DVDFab Decrypter enters version three beta! 
* DVDFab Decrypter 3 is brand new and completely rewritten. * Rewrite protection detection/removal engine, support ARccOS, RipGuard better. * New easy-to-use and informational user interface.

Film Listings 
Film listings are edited by Cheryl Eddy. Reviewers are Robert Avila, Kimberly Chun, Michelle Devereaux, Susan Gerhard, Max Goldberg, Dennis Harvey, Johnny Ray Huston, Jonathan L. Knapp, Laurie Koh, Lynn Rapoport, Jason Shamai, and Chuck Stephens. The film intern is Sara Schieron.

Hollywood unleashes dogs in war on movie piracy 
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - This time, Hollywood really has gone to the dogs. The Motion Picture Association of America on Thursday unveiled its latest tool in the war on movie piracy: a pair of DVD-sniffing Labrador Retrievers named Lucky and Flo.

Down in the Valley 
(2006) Starring: Edward Norton , Evan Rachel Wood Director: David Jacobson Synopsis: A charismatic but delusional young man believes he’s a cowboy and strikes up a relationship with a rebellious young woman from the suburbs.

River Past Video Cleaner 7.0
Video Cleaner is a converter software. Convert MOV to AVI, or convert MOV to WMV and much more. Audio converter and extractor. Convert from almost any audio format to WAV, MP3, WMA, or audio-only AVI.

Connecting two devices with only one HDMI interface?
Lots of “issues” with HDMI switching. Chaos was avoided when the first generation HD/BD players dropped the HDCP requirement (at least the discs didn’t turn on encryption). But hell awaits at the whim of the media producers and Congress (broadcast flag still lurks in committees). Current switching issues are being discussed here. http://forum.g…

AutoGK 2.33 beta
Auto Gordian Knot simplifies the DVD to AVI/DivX/XviD conversion process for people new to Gordian Knot and overwhelmed by the vast options. It also supports other MPEG2 sources, such as HDTV, DVB captures and transport streams. New in version 2+: AVI, DV, DivX, XviD input.

backing up a scratched disc?
Another thing that has worked for me on numerous occasions is simply setting DVD Decrypter to only read at 1x. This is obviously pretty slow, but it’s often successful. I usually speed up the process though by always reading all files in File Mode at max speed first time through, and if I encounter an error I skip the file(s) with errors in them …

Fun ‘Flyboys’ delivers lots of aerial thrills
Jackson Clarion-Ledger - American pilots who volunteered to fight for the French during World War I. The story is sometimes clunky, but the aerial dogfights are thrilling. Stars James Franco, Martin Henderson, Abdul Salis, David Ellison, Jennifer Decker and Jean Reno. MPAA

‘Zen Noir’
Los Angeles Times - MPAA rating: Not rated. Some sex, complex adult themes. A Magic Lamp release. Writer-producer-director Marc Rosenbush. Producers Frank Crim, Erika Gardner. Cinematographer Christopher Gosch. Editor Camden Toy. Running time: 1 hour, 11 minutes.

Will the Microsoft Zune Play Protected WMA Music?
CrunchGear, NY - Sep 15, 2006EFF thinks the Zune will not play protected WMA and WMV content, a move that, well, baffles us. According to the press release yesterday …

All new DVDFab Decrypter enters version three beta! 
* DVDFab Decrypter 3 is brand new and completely rewritten. * Rewrite protection detection/removal engine, support ARccOS, RipGuard better. * New easy-to-use and informational user interface.