DVD Backup & Video Encoding Blog

So Blu Ray is dead … WRONG… Read this
Since both formats are capable of similar quality … would you rather buy a HD-DVD player for $500 or a Blu-Ray player for $900 - $1,000 ??? The only “monkey wrench” in this hardware cost formula is the Sony PS3 which costs less than a Blu-Ray player yet can play games and Blu-Ray movies. With that price point I can’t see why someone would …

Homes with HDTV to treble by 2011
According to a report, the number of homes with HDTV services is set to treble by 2011. The clearer, more vivid picture offered by true high definition TV has made it a "must have" in many territories…

How to create Superman titles
Or in Windows Movie Maker 2, which you already have in XP, click Make Title or Credits, and choose the Scroll, Perspective option. It’s really easy, and the only reason they didn’t name it Star Wars Title is probably a copyright thing, but that’s what it is. That’s what I use and I export it to DV-AVI: movie1.wmv

Ripping streaming video from nbc.com
Thanks to someone else on this site I found out the start of these NBC videos, they all seem to have a universal start. rtmp://cp23371.edgefcs.net:1935/ondemand/ So put it together with the stuff in the SMIL files and this is the address to the episode that was originally asked about in this thread: rtmp://cp23371.edgefcs.net:1935/ondemand…

DVD Logos and Region Logos
You can get some here: http://www.cdman.com/graphics/disc_designing/logos.html But you will need Photoshop or Illustrator or similar to open them. There are some truetype fonts there also for DVD use.

GetRight v6.2
GetRight is a Download Manager and Download Accelerator software for Windows.

Nero 7 Ultra Edition
PC World - Along with the basic CD- and DVD-recording program Nero Burning ROM, Nero 7 Ultra Edition Enhanced includes modules for recording LPs; creating DJ mixes; video capture, conversion, and editing; photo editing; creating a personal video recorder; and

Online Press Release
PRWeb - The recognized leader in online news and press release distribution service for small and medium-sized businesses and corporate communications. PRWeb pioneered SEO Press Release Distribution and continues to set the standard for online news

Popular Bok drives ‘em wild
Beeld - Van Blerk performed for a DVD recording in front of a crowd of 2 000, who kept cheering him on and urging him to start ahead of schedule. “Bokkie! Bokkie! Bokkie!” the crowd screamed. Schoolgirls became hysterical when he opened with his first song

Justice critic to meet with law officials on film piracy
Globe and Mail - OTTAWA Calls to criminalize camcording in movie theatres have reached Parliament this week, as one opposition MP vowed to embark on a fact-finding mission to assess the magnitude of the DVD-piracy problem in Canada. Liberal justice critic Marlene

TheStar.com - Business - U.S. movie piracy claims mostly fiction
Toronto Star - Over the past year, the RCMP and local police forces laid charges for DVD piracy on numerous occasions, while a Canadian court upheld a U.S. decision to fine a Canadian operator nearly $500,000 (Canadian) for copyright infringement related to movie

Hackers find key to DVD piracy
Los Angeles Times - The much-vaunted anti-piracy protection on the next generation of DVDs has been cracked, leaving films in the new high-definition formats vulnerable to copying. Hackers have defeated the core means for protecting the medium seen by Hollywood as a

Internet isoHunt.com Taken Down, Relocates to Canada
DailyTech - DVD piracy, game piracy, etc. is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO common now, that it’s time for the gaming and movie industries to just say “Okay, we cannot sustain our current business model, so perhaps it is time to move to a different one. We could put DVD

DVD Music: Madonna
Belfast Telegraph - For all her numerous genius pop moments it has always been easier to admire, rather than truly enjoy, Madonna in all her various incarnations - yes, she broke the mould and rewrote the book on what female pop stars could do, but with each new

Flags of Our Fathers - DVD
Cinema Blend - The film begins just as Rosenthal s photo is breathing hope into disheartened Americans everywhere, save at Iwa Jima, where the six men portrayed find little comfort only five days into battle. Within a month of the photo being taken, only three

Havoc - DVD Review
Pocket-Link.co.uk - The good The return of Michael Terminator Biehn, gratuitous nudity featuring the usually wholesome Hathaway, a grittily authentic screenplay in the style of Kids and Thirteen The bad The abrupt ending leaves many questions unanswered, Kaplan

“Babel,” “Dreamgirls” lead Oscars (LIST AND PHOTOS) 
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) The musical “Dreamgirls” led Academy Awards contenders Tuesday with eight nominations, but surprisingly was shut out in the best picture category after being considered a potential front-runner.

Academic All-Star 
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‘Dreamgirls’ gets leading 8 Oscar bids 
‘Babel’ gets seven nods, while ‘The Queen’ and ‘Pan’s Labyrinth get six each. Ten-year-old Abigail Breslin is fourth-youngest actress ever nominated.

‘Dreamgirls’ leads Oscar nominations 
TODAY: (Updated 8:53 a.m.) BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. The musical “Dreamgirls” led Academy Awards contenders Tuesday with eight nominations, but surprisingly was shut out in the best picture category after being considered a potential front-runner.

‘Dreamgirls’ lands 8 Oscar nominations, but not best-picture category 
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - The musical “Dreamgirls” led Academy Awards contenders Tuesday with eight nominations, but surprisingly was shut out in the best picture category after being considered a potential front-runner.

Problem: Dshow error
I have been testing out a Hauppuage card. I installed all of the software related to the card. I started off using WinTv2000 to capture vhs tape. I was going through the different setting to determine which were support by the card. I was able to go through all of the setting and capture a file. Then I tried the Amcap program that was init…

Software specific discussion: DVD Shrink forum: Can’t Copy Open Season
Latest post to a thread “Can’t Copy Open Season” has been made by aditek at 8 February 2007 14:20

Snagit 8.2.1
SnagIt is a screen capture program that allows you to capture an exact copy of anything that appears on your Windows screen.

XnView v1.90.2
XnView is a software to view and convert graphic files.

Upgrade Wish List: Media Matchup
Popular Mechanics - With the Creative Zen, all we had to do was drag-and-drop a folder with five one-hour XviD TV episodes in, and they were ready to watch within minutes. To transfer the same files for Zune’s limited abilities, we needed to install expensive video

Why wait for Apple TV? Build your own!
Ars Technica - Yes, 1080 can give you problems with H.264 but XviD and DivX play extremely well. For a real nice setup with XBMC, have a SMB share (windows share, your Mac will do it just fine) on your computer with a BT client that has or supports a RSS feed scanner

Generic hard disk PMPs (non-Media Center)
Australian PC World - Support for DivX and XviD video is pretty much a given. In addition to playing back common file types such as WMA and MP3, some PMPs also support FLAC or OGG (vorbis) digital music files, TIFF photos, motion JPEG and more. Not all PMPs are made

DRM Group Admits Impracticality, Not Its Technology, Stops Hi-Def DVD
Tech Dirt - But one could downsample the ripped video to 720p or 480p and use xvid or something like that to compress it. It’ll essentially compete in the same “market-space” as ripped DVDs, but with much higher quality. The

Media Centres Buying Guide
Australian PC World - be it video audio or pictures? How does it connect to the display or audio device, or is it self-contained? Does it support the video file formats and compression systems you have used to store your video, images and audio (for instance, MPEG2, Xvid