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VS4YOU.com opens a new era on shareware market 
launches AVS4YOU.com, a new online project featuring up-to-date titles for most various needs about home video and audio management. AVS4YOU.com offers a breakthrough way of getting software.

InterVideo Updates iPod Video Conversion Tools for High-quality TV Output 
FREMONT, Calif.—-InterVideo , Inc , an industry leader in video, image and DVD software, today announced free updates to InterVideo iVideoToGo Platinum and DVD Copy 5 Platinum.

http://www.avs4you.com Opens a New Era on Shareware Market 
London, UK (PRWeb) December 16, 2006 — Online Media Technologies Ltd.

http://www.avs4you.com Opens a New Era on Shareware Market 
Online Media Technologies Ltd., a vendor of multimedia solutions, today launches http://www.avs4you.com , a new online project featuring up-to-date titles for most various needs about home video and audio management. Being unparalleled on today’s international IT market http://www.avs4you.com offers a breakthrough way of getting software. Once registered any AVS4YOU utility, you automatically …

AnyDVD 6.0.9.7
AnyDVD is a driver, which descrambles DVD-Movies automatically in the background. This DVD appears unprotected and region code free for all applications and the Windows operating system as well. With the help of AnyDVD you can watch movies with non matching region codes with every DVD Player Software you like!

PC hardware: DVDR drives: Power Calibration Errors
Latest post to a thread “Power Calibration Errors” has been made by Nikita23 at 19 December 2006 22:24

CDR and digital audio discussion: Audio: burning cds
Latest post to a thread “burning cds” has been made by djscoop at 19 December 2006 22:15

gui4ffmpeg 2.1
Gui4fmpeg is a graphic user interface to handle encoding with ffmpeg. It includes mp3 and ac3 support. Gui4ffmpeg can read from AviSynth files. Gui4ffmpeg contains a detailed documentation in english and german.

Sony to put wares on USB memory 
Those little Sony Pocket Mini s we heard about last month, well Sony plans to put a new spin on these suckers by pre-loading them with content.

MSI Unveils P6N SLI Series Motherboard with Creative’s X-Fi 
MSI P6N Diamond motherboard, the new generation standard creator

Fujitsu turns to optical for massive disk storage 
Fujitsu may have jumped ahead of the pack with the announcement it has managed to create storage areas on a hard disk less than 100 nm in size. In doing so, 5 terabyte drives become an possibility.

Disc format has ‘many years’ left - Sony’s Maguire ( News ) 
Reckons retail will survive. If you would like to comment on this article, then you must be logged in! Sure, quite different compared to their announcement from a couple of months ago! Pushing BlueRay?

Need Good DL DVD-+R
I have a Plextor px-740a for a little over 1 year now. My system started messing up and would not boot, so I ended up having to replace my motherboard and psu. Everything started working again, but my plextor never came back for some reason. It will not eject or be recognized by windows. I tried everything and no go, so I guess its bad. What…

Adding external subs using ERMP
Okay anyone using Easy RealMedia Prodcer… For me this is the best RMVB converter ever made… it preserves the AVIs quality at max compared to many other proggies and it is easy to use… it also nearly converts all existing formats to RMVB if the right codecs are installed. What i want to do is convert MKV/OGM to RMVB… What the proggie does…

SpamBully for Outlook Express v4.0.0.80
SpamBully is a spam filter for Microsoft Outlook Express that uses Bayesian spam filter and blacklists to keep your inbox spam free.

L International Reveals Blueprint Design for Its Upcoming
MSN MoneyCentral - world-class 64-bit processing capabilities to a centralized computer machine that acts as a user’s main electronic PC hub, with connectivity of up to eight displays out-of-the-box, HDTV Tuner, audio/ video streaming center, DVD/HD-DVD/Blue-Ray

2006 Home Video Preview
KFOR - Sony will also offer an external Blue-ray Disc computer drive that will support both 25GB and 50GB BD Media, featuring 2X BD recording capability. Sony will also offer blank BD Media. The other BD product will be PlayStation3, which is expected to be

Microsoft ships XNA coding kit for amateur game developers
Software giant, Microsoft has officially released it's project XNA Game Studio Express for developmental purposes on the Xbox 360 console. Their hope is to find budding, undiscovered talent in amateur..

Software specific discussion: Nero discussion: mp4 file with nero
Latest post to a thread “mp4 file with nero” has been made by JagMan at 17 December 2006 16:46

prob w/ extracting "clean" clips to use as assets
Thanks Frobozz, Though the internal mechanics elude me it’s probably worth repeating that I use Cinematize to extract a whole clip that has been burned to dvd as a stand-alone unit. I use MPEG StreamClip when the clip burned to dvd is way too long and I need to trim down and isolate the part I’m interested in. (Unlike Cinematize Pro, plain…

Microsoft ships XNA coding kit for amateur game developers
Software giant, Microsoft has officially released it's project XNA Game Studio Express for developmental purposes on the Xbox 360 console. Their hope is to find budding, undiscovered talent in amateur..

New Superman Returns Trailer 
Bizzaro gets totally backward on Metropolis’ ass in the latest trailer…

Failed to start Disc-at-Once
My dvd writer is TDK-DVDRW880N, and although I’ve installed the latest firmware, it still keeps giving me this error. “failed to start disc-at-once”. I’ve attached the log for more info. The disc type is DVD -R. I’ve always used this type of disc in the past, but for some reason now it’s not working. I tried burning CDs and it works.. only DV…

DVD Jon: Zune’s Getting a Bad Rap 
Microsoft’s music player isn’t the lame duck some critics have called it, says Jon Johansen, the guy who cracked DVD encryption. In Listening Post.

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.