Archive for November, 2006

Software specific discussion: DVD Shrink forum: Problems with AnyDVD and Shrink

Software specific discussion: DVD Shrink forum: Problems with AnyDVD and Shrink
Latest post to a thread “Problems with AnyDVD and Shrink” has been made by fasfrank at 30 November 2006 22:04

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Windows XP SP3 delayed to 2008

Windows XP SP3 delayed to 2008
Work-wise I don’t think we’ll touch Vista for at least 4-5 years …. we have had enough fun getting our software to work on Win2K and XP machines over the past 4 years that it’s not something I need to think about for a while yet. Personally I won’t look at Vista until SP1. As it happens, I’m quite happy with XP at the moment anyway.

Cyberlink PowerProducer 4.0
CyberLinks PowerProducer is a software for capturing, authoring and burning your videos and photos on CD, DVD, HD-DVD or BluRay. Capture high-definition video from HDV camcorders, Edit photos and videos automatically, Select a disc format among Blu-ray Discs, HD DVDs, DVDs, VCDs or CDs, Re-edit VR discs, Choose (4:3) regular or (16:9) widescreen menus

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Macrovision 3Q Profit Up; SEC Closes Review 

Macrovision 3Q Profit Up; SEC Closes Review 
Macrovision Corp., a maker of copyright protection software, said Thursday its third-quarter profit climbed from last year, helped by a sharp rise in sales. The company also said the SEC completed its investigation of its stock option practices, and the agency will not have to take further action.

Embedding data in an information signal 
enabling (S5) copying of the information signal if the securely encoded password derived from the information signal and the securely encoded reference password have a predetermined relationship, otherwise disabling copying (S7). The reference password is

Stull, Stull & Brody Announces Commencement of Lawsuit against THQ Inc. for the Back-Dating of Stock Option Grants —  
The law firm of Stull, Stull & Brody announces that a shareholder lawsuit has been commenced against certain members of the board of directors and certain executive officers of THQ Inc. .

Microsoft Gulf showcases Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 at Gitex 2006 
Gitex 2006 plays host to Microsoft’s Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003, the company’s first software offering designed to run parallel, high-performance computing (HPC) applications for customers solving complex computations.

UBS Hosts Global Communications and Technology Conference Nov. 14-16 
—-UBS: WHAT: UBS’s Annual Global Communications and Technology Conference will feature presentations by CEOs and other senior executives from more than 175 global technology companies to provide insights into opportunities and challenges in the industry.

Macrovision Corporation Reports Third Quarter Financial Performance 
SANTA CLARA, Calif.—-Macrovision Corporation announced today record third quarter revenues of $58.1 million compared to $46.6 million for the third quarter of 2005. US GAAP net income was $6.4 million compared to $6.1 million for the third quarter of 2005.

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Movies and TV shows on Xbox Live

Movies and TV shows on Xbox Live
Xbox Live US Marketplace yesterday launched the service for selling TV shows and renting movies from CBS, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, MTV Networks, Paramount Pictures, and few other companies. The..

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Geek breaks the iPod code 

Geek breaks the iPod code 
GROWING UP in a small town in southern Norway, Jon Lech Johansen loved to take things apart to figure out how they worked. When he was 14, his father bought a digital camera that came with bug-ridden software. Johansen analysed the code and wrote a program that worked better.

For iTunes hacker, the freedom of the open code 
Jon Lech Johansen’s Web site, “So Sue Me,” reflects the famed hacker’s philosophy. Now he’s up against Apple.

Hollywood Sues to Keep DVDs Off iPods 
The suit was filed against a Massachusetts-based company to prevent it from helping people load purchased videos onto iPods and other portable video players.

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Two US men arrested in Tijuana, charged with sex abuse of minors

Two US men arrested in Tijuana, charged with sex abuse of minors
San Diego Union Tribune, United States - Nov 7, 2006… Inside the vehicle, police found DVDs with pornographic and children’s themes, condoms, creams, as well as a DVD copying device. …

Grant helps Ormsgill ethnic food store open
NW Evening Mail, UK - Nov 21, 2006… to Ms Seville, Furness film-makers Shoreline Films received a 21,000 grant, which helped pay for a schools education officer and DVD copying equipment. …

Serif adds one of those can’t-copy DVD-copying apps
HEXUS.Lifestyle, UK - Nov 15, 2006Budget software house Serif is the latest company to make a big splash about a program for copying DVDs which, when you look at the small print, can’t actually …

US permits phone-cracking and DVD copying exemptions to copyright …
PC Pro, UK - Nov 23, 2006The US Library of Congress has approved a record number of exemptions to copyright laws, granting permission for film and media studies professors to crack DVD …

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HDTV files from PC to TV ? Is it possible ?

HDTV files from PC to TV ? Is it possible ?
fanx FulciLives for trying that far And Baldrick ,that was alot of info ,fanx to you . Its 5 am and i have to retire this for some zzzzzzzz i know i`ll be asking u about demux etc and playing seperate streams..YipeZ Did you see above errors i got with HDTVtoMPEG and projectX ? i also get a bad install error for java when instal…

nd3550a reading and writing at 2x or less
First thing to check is whether or not your drive is running in PIO mode. Right-click my computer and select Manage. Click on Device Manager, then open the branch called IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers. Double click on the Primary Controller, then click on the Advanced tab. Make sure the Transfer Mode on both channels is set to DMA if available, and t…

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Valley Briefing 

Valley Briefing 
Oswego

Scaring up Halloween sales 
FERNDALE — The coffin may need a little dusting, the skeleton a little polishing and a couple of fresh spider webs will have to be hung before Darrin Moore can look at his front yard with any satisfaction.

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Toshiba Satellite Pro P100

Toshiba Satellite Pro P100
PC Plus, UK - Nov 13, 2006… performance. It should comfortably run any desktop application you throw at it, from heavyweight 3D rendering tools to video encoding. …

Orange launches HD mobile TV service
Telecom Paper (subscription), Netherlands - Nov 21, 2006… The HD service offers superior picture quality, offering video encoding speed of 250 kbit/sec, compared to 128 kbit/sec for the standard mobile TV service. …

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Microsoft’s war waged with FairUse4WM

Microsoft’s war waged with FairUse4WM
engadget, CA - Nov 13, 2006… A prime example of how courts have used this DMCA provision to strike down a DRM-removing technology involves DeCSS. As you might …

Will ‘DVD Jon’ Strike Again
InternetNews.com - Oct 27, 2006… They produced a program called DeCSS, which opened the file, read the data, decrypted it with the Xing CSS decryption code, and wrote it back to the disk …

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