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Alcohol 120% 1.9.6.4719
Alcohol 120% is a DVD / CD emulation and burning software.

AviSynth Batch Scripter 0.5.1
AviSynth Batch Scripter: All youll ever need for batch creating AviSynth and any other script files! Every time you make changes to your script files or simply need new ones! Just run AviSynth Batch Scripter to (re-)create all of your script files. You can scan your entire harddrive for movies (or any other file!) that you want a script file created (or replaced) for and select a predefined template for all of your scripts and purposes.

dvddecrypter started burning I00 and I01 files instead of iso files
My player won’t play FAT discs, so I have to convert (walks away mumbling about the smart-arses in the forum)

PPC binary install bug workaround
Ack, I suddenly got this problem as well!!! ffmpegX kept asking for the last two binaries every time I re-launched the app. Then I remembered the most recent change I performed on my system was running a free utility called Monolingual - it removes languages and Intel/PowerPC components that your system configuration doesn’t need - it must …

‘Universal’ Next-Gen DVD Players On Way 
A new chip from Broadcom will pave the way for DVD players which handle both of the new, high-definition formats — HD DVD and Blu-ray — in one unit.

A new obsession in town: PlayStation 3 hysteria hits Plano 
Neither rain, nor sleet or shine could keep obsessive gamers from camping outside department stores days before the PlayStation 3 is released. Im an obsessive gamer, said Ken Vernon, 21, of Plano.

Ittiam Systems Introduces Multi Format High Definition Video Decoder Engine 
Highly optimized Silicon IP for high definition video ASIC solutions

Megan banking on sales of HD-DVD recordables and Blue-Ray recordables 
SUBANG JAYA: Megan Media Holdings Bhd will bank on sales of its high-end HD-DVD recordables and Blu-Ray recordables in the future, executive chairman Datuk Dr Mohd Adam Che Harun said.

European Game Developers Federation founded 
New trade body set up to “advance the political and economic interests” of Europe’s gaming industry.

4Gb iriver clix on the way for $200
Sure, you could plug down your hard earned cash for an iPod that can help cure AIDS, but it might not be as slick as iriver’s newest clix device. Upgrading to the 4Gb version, iriver will be bringing..

anyone know a region hack for Zenith DVB 612?
If anyone knows a hack to make the Zenith DVB 612 regon free or knows how to find it out and can post it to the hack list or here on the forum it would be greatly appreciated. Just gotta say I love this site and how it’s helped me make all of my other Philips and Zenith DVD players region free. Thanks to everyone who has contributed in the past!

NTT Electronics Releases Single-Chip Codec and Encoder LSIs Supporting Real Full-Spec HDTV for the Consumer Market 
TOKYO—-NTT Electronics Corporation , an industry leader in image compression technology, has developed two new single-chip video compression LSIs supporting full HDTV to meet rising needs for high-definition TV.

Intel v. AMD: Still Battling for Supremacy 
For Intel and AMD, the song remains the same: two tech titans fighting mano-a-mano for silicon supremacy, as each tries to build better, faster chips to run our PCs and other high-tech gadgets. In this two-man battle for the crown of high-speed performance, benchmark tests are often relied upon to make the critical call between first and second place.

Two Packages Put Windows on the Mac Pro 
Apple’s OS X operating system gets more and more compatible with the PC world with each new release — it supports both general industry standards and many proprietary de facto standards, and it integrates cleanly with networks, back-end systems, authentication, and authorization systems like Active Directory, network storage, and other historically PC-centric enterprise assets.

Panasonic DMR-ES45V 
Excellent recording quality and an HDMI output make the Panasonic DMR-ES45V a top contender in the DVD/VHS recorder market.

Go for the Mini 
Sooner or later, you’ll find yourself watching a fully computerized TV set in your living room. But hey - why wait?

How to: Getting around DVD copying problems 
QI bought an expensively specified Windows XP Media Center Edition (MCE) system in January and everything is fine, except that I cant burn DVDs that will play on a standalone DVD player. I tried telephoning technical support but was told discs burnt in this way were only for viewing on MCE PCs.

Variety Declares VHS Dead 
An anonymous reader writes “Variety has written an obituary for the VHS format only 3 years after it was surpassed in popularity by the DVD.” While VHS is hardly the format of choice these days, there are still many, many home movies and other favorite recordings and commercial releases floating around in VHS. How long until VHS players themselves go the way of the 8-track player?

Microsoft Fixes Xbox 360 Dashboard Update 
Update reportedly caused crashing and inoperable machines…

LSI DVD Recorder Processor Wins EDN Magazine Innovation Award for Consumer Electronics IC 
MILPITAS, Calif., Nov. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — LSI Logic Corporation , ( Nachrichten ) the pioneer in media processing technology, today announced that EDN China has selected the LSI DoMiNo(R) 8604 (DMN-8604) DVD recorder processor as the winner of its annual Innovation Award in the Consumer Electronics IC category.

20th Century Fox Tries To Tactic To Halt Piracy In China 
Hoping to counter rampant DVD piracy in China, 20th Century Fox said Monday (Tuesday) that it had signed an agreement with the Chinese video distrib

Man sentenced to 4 years for DVD piracy 
LONDON, Nov. 7 (UPI) — A Chinese man has been sentenced to four years in jail for his role in a DVD piracy operation in London.

Gov’t panel mulls ban on Net auctions of pirated products: report 
_ A government panel is expected to recommend revising the Copyright Law to forbid the advertising and online listing of pirated products as well as impose criminal penalties against violators, a Japanese economic daily reported Tuesday.

UPI NewsTrack Entertainment News 
NASHVILLE, Nov. 7 (UPI) — Nashville superstar Faith Hill says she was kidding around when TV cameras at the Country Music Association Awards caught her grousing about losing an award.

New York City, MPAA, ‘piracy’ 
New ‘initiative’

John Woos Strangehold New Trailers 
Fans of Hong Kong action movie auteur John Woo will already be getting excited about Woos forthcoming game, Stranglehold, which is being published by Midway on PC, PS3 and 360 and is due sometime early 2007.

Rayman Raving Rabbids - Video Here 
As the cold begins to bite, the time is right for visions of insane rabbidy goodness

Online Media Technologies Ltd. Announces Release Of AVS Video Tools 
Online Media Technologies Ltd. recently announced the release of AVS Video Tools 5.4., the set of tools for a cross-conversion of all key video formats, video capturing, DVD and video files transference to various handheld devices

Exclusive: Video Interview with Tetsuya Mizuguchi 
See it first right here on SPOnG - and download your Mizuguchi-designed screensavers PLUS your chance to WIN LUMINES II!

Call of Duty 3: Wii Controls Detailed in Trailer 
What it loses in looks, it makes up for in personality

All-in-one DVD copy software DVDFab 3.0.3.0 is out
CD Freaks.com, Netherlands - Oct 27, 2006… MP4 file. Remove all DVD copy protections, like CSS, RC, RCE, APS, UOPs, ARccOS, RipGuard, FluxDVD, CORE X2, etc. Constantly updated …