DVD Backup & Video Encoding Blog

Classic B&W Films Get New Life and Look in Hi-Def
PR Web (press release), WA - Aug 23, 2006… since original release. Blue Ray Group acquires 1,000-title film library for B&W Hi-Def release. LOS ANGELES, Calif. (PRWEB) August …

CEDIA 2006: Pioneer BDP-HD1 Elite Blu-ray Player Also Streams
Gizmodo.com, Hungary - Sep 16, 2006Pioneer’s first Blue-ray player is late to the game, but adds in movie, picture, and music playback from a USB stick, PC, or DLNA compatible device (by ethernet …

Sony cuts PS3 shipments
CVG Online - Sep 6, 2006… this morning’s jaw-dropper that the PS3 has been delayed in Europe until March 2007, and that the apparent delay is all down to a lack of Blue Ray diodes as we …

CONSUMER NEWS Much anticipated Sony Play Station 3 may be hard to …
WNDU-TV, IN - Sep 7, 2006… That sa big drop from the originally promised two-million units. The company says a problem with the machine’s blue-ray disc laser is the culprit. …

Universal Studios Supports HD DVD Over Blue-ray
WorthPlaying.com, CA - 21 hours ago… design show CEDIA EXPO 2006, Universal Studios Home Entertainment President Craig Kornblau came out in support of HD DVD, compared to Sony’s Blue-ray. …

DVD Recorder Set Up Problem …
CrazyCanuck, thanks for the suggestion, I’ll try it tonight! BCDave, I thought the same thing about not needing the modulator, but when I did that I could view TV fine with the Recorder on, but couldn’t view the menus on the Recorder for some reason.

Comskip 0.79.54
Comskip is a free mpeg commercial detector. It is a windows console application that reads a mpeg file and analyses the content based on a large amount of configurable parameters. After analysis it generates a file in various possible formats containing the location of the commercials inside the mpeg file. The formats include input files for interactive video editors (VideoRedo, Cuttermaran,…) command line video cutters (mpgtx, cuttermaran, mencoder) and video players (zoomplayer, mplayer.

Eric Kinney, President
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Apple’s Latest Victims
Motley Fool - Sep 14, 2006… Microsoft should make sure it supports as many file types as possible: DivX, Mpegs, Quicktime, who cares. Stream them all and run them all. …

CEDIA 2006: Yamaha Unveils Two New SACD & DVD Audio/Video Players
High Fidelity Review, UK - 13 hours ago… handling SACD, DVD Video and DVD Audio discs in both Stereo and Surround Sound audio, both of the new models also handle MP3 Audio, JPEG Image, DivX Video and …

Macrovision Is Banking On Anti-Piracy Products For Online Movies
Investors Business Daily - Since November, Disney has used Macrovision’s RipGuard technology on its DVDs. Universal Studios has just begun using RipGuard to protect DVDs of the 9/11 drama “United 93.” Richard Davis, Needham analyst, estimates that Macrovision holds 90% of the

After Pelosi Nosotros!
Slate - It’s only natural, making an expos about the secretive institution that is the Motion Picture Association of America, that Dick would want to show us just what it is that the MPAA doesn’t want filmmakers to show us at least not without saddling

Film takes on faceless MPAA
Contra Costa Times - Oscar-nominated filmmaker Kirby Dick has a new documentary opening Friday. It has not been rated by the Motion Picture Association of America’s ratings board, which means you’ll have to make your own decision about how suitable the movie is for your

X-raying the ratings
Philadelphia Daily News - The movie’s big straw man is that the MPAA’s wacky ratings board does a poor job of serving the artist. An inconvenient truth: It was never meant to. It was created to make it easier for the big studios to bring their products to a mass market

this film is not yet rated
BBC Brasil - It s not a system that would hold up in many courts of law, but it s the way that the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) classifies movies in the US. Since its inception in 1968, numerous filmmakers have fallen foul of an age-based

Movie review: ‘This Film is Not Yet Rated’
MetroMix - Kirby Dick’s film–really two documentaries, one far more valuable than the other–takes the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) ratings to task. Kirby is most hacked off regarding the system’s brazen favoritism toward violence, its not-so

Opening Friday
Akron Beacon Journal - No MPAA rating) Joseph Bologna, Dyan Cannon, Len Cariou, Sally Kellerman and Brenda Vacarro in a teen sitcom. The teens still worry about dating and learning to drive, buying condoms and getting naked, only now they’re in their 60s and 70s, and live

QuickTime Alternative 1.76 beta
With this package you will be able to play QuickTime movies without having to install the offical QuickTime player. Works good with Media Player Classic(included).

DVD Subtitle help
I recently came across a PAL dvd that I needed to convert to NTSC. That worked ok, but the only problem is the movie is in English, and has certain parts that are in other languages. The original DVD had subtitles during these portions. How do I find these subtitles on the original dvd and include them on the NTSC version? Thanks, ~Ryan

SpongeBob SquarePants: Season 4, Volume 1 (DVD)
Entertainment Weekly - Sep 14, 2006… The release date of ”The Best Day Ever” on CD coincides with the arrival on DVD of the series’ ”Season 4, Volume 1.” If you’re a little bit confused by the …

Battlestar Galactica - Season 2.5
IGN, CA - 7 hours ago… Hence, the season being split into two DVD sets: “Season 2.0″ was released earlier this year, and now, with Season 3 about to debut, the second half, titled …

x264 Video Codec Revision 564
x264 is an open source H264/AVC based video codec. The x264 VFW is a Video For Windows codec that you can use in for example Virtualdub. The x264 CLI is a command line x264 encoder tool and it can be used with the MEGUI.

Triple-layer HD DVD / DVD developed
In a joint project, Memory-Tech and Toshiba have created a one-side, triple-layer disc for both DVD and HD DVD formats. It is a breakthrough which opens the door to higher capacity hybrid storage on a..

Wii in November 19 for $249,99
Nintendo has announced in its press events in New York and Tokyo that it’s “next-gen” console Wii, will launch November 19th in the US and December 2nd in Japan. The console will cost 25,000 yen (apprx…

DVD plays fine in my computer, but not on my tv DVD player
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Fresh UI v7.67
Fresh UI is a fresh solution for configuring and optimizing Windows.