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Netgear Ships Digital Entertainer Box That Streams Video to HDTVs 
Netgear’s new Digital Entertainer HD box could change the way you experience your media…

Apple Begins Shipping the Apple TV 
The sleek new set top box from Apple is sure to please home theater fans…

Review: Apple TV best for iTunes addicts 
Apple’s answer to the digital media adapter is finally here.

Apple TV - Part 2: Apple Enters the Digital Home 
Last week we showed you what made Apple TV tick, now we find out how well Apple did with its first digital media extender.

Commodore International Corporation: Hands-On Experience for the Gravel(TM) Product Range 
Commodore International Corporation is proud to officially launch the multi media entertainment platform CommodoreWorld along with a series of Wi-Fi enabled Gravel devices at CeBIT 2007.

Best Way to Add Text to Vob (avi) video Clips (Like Watermark - Subtitles )
I would like to know whats the best way and what tool. to use. to take a vob file. and add text on the bottom of the video. text that will stay throughout the whole video. at the bottom of it, and then converting it to MPEG4 (Divx, Xvid) format (Avi) 320×240 resolution MP3 audio 30 frames per second

KMPlayer 2.9.3.1234 Beta
KMPlayer is a free movie and audio player that supports a wide range of codecs and file formats, it has full DVD playback functionality. Tons of built in features like video and audio filters, subtitle, zoom, pan & scan, open streaming media, play from tvcard,cam.

Man jailed for selling counterfeit software on eBay
An Indiana man has been sentenced to 27 months in prison for selling more than $700,000 worth of counterfeit computer software on the eBay Internet auction site. Courtney Smith, 36, of Anderson, Ind.,..

Sony not just playing games
News.com.au - It also plays DVDs and lets you store home movies on the hard drive, although I couldn’t get it to play some DivX video files I’d downloaded from the internet. With music, it can play CDs or rip them to the hard drive in about 10 minutes, or you can

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 Free Press Release Distribution and continues to set the standard for online news

Comes with a 7-in-1 card reader, as well
Softpedia - The video player supports video files such as MPEG-1, MPEG-4, WMV9 as well as XviD and DivX compression formats. The player has to load the entire movie first in order to allow for smooth playback. This way, a 90-minute DivX video file takes about 17

Intel 45nm CPUs to clock above 3GHz
Channel Register - Smith claimed the microarchitecture tweaks introduced with Penryn, the addition of SSE4 and, in particular, the higher clock speeds will yield a dual-core gaming performance increase of up to 20 per cent and a 40 per cent reduction in video encoding

Here s the only broadband video encoding tool you ll ever need
ZDNet Blogs - You know the drill. Take some video with your digital camera or DV cam, transfer it to your Mac or PC, maybe give it the editing treatment, and encode it for posting to your website, podcast, or favorite video sharing site. While you can skip the

61% of Americans unaware of DTV transition
Advanced Television - digital media infrastructure market, recognising its early provision of MPEG-4 technologies and solutions. It also received the 2006 Frost and Sullivan Product Innovation Award for its work in the field of video encoding

Ericsson Bids $1.4B for Tandberg TV
Multichannel Online - Tandberg, with U.S. operations in Duluth, Ga., makes video-encoding equipment used by cable, telco and satellite-service providers. The winning bidder for Tandberg must receive the approval of shareholders who own more than 90% of the company s

PointRoll, On2 Partner for Video-Enabled Online Advertising
MarketingVOX - Gannett’s PointRoll has partnered with On2 Technologies to add new video-encoding capabilities to PointRoll video units, the companies announced . PointRoll is licensing On2’s Flix Engine and Flix Pro toolsets to create and deliver Flash 8 video

J. River Media Center 12.0.198
All Media Center, Connect with MEDIA CENTER, Add a digital camera, Connect a handheld player, iPod setup, Hook up your stereo, Connect a TV to your PC, Remote control for MC, Play music across a network, Connect TiVo to MC, Add a UPnP device

Software, operating systems and more: Linux - General discussion: Calling all Linux Pro’s…need some assistance
Latest post to a thread “Calling all Linux Pro’s…need some assistance” has been made by pimpslap at 27 March 2007 06:49

aac 5.1 conversion to anything(pulling hair out)
Hi. I tried with MKVtoolnix/MKVextract(GUI) and Foobar 2000 , but it would not recognize the format. Maybe it cannot handle 5.1 aac correctly. I found another way that is quite simple: Get mplayer/mencoder (http://www.mplayerhq.hu) and use a command like this (or similar): mencoder input-file.mkv -oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:br=192 -ovc…

Connecting Panasonic DVD Recorders with DV input to PC
Update: resolved compatibility issue with Enosoft DV Processor PeBo pdrflt_1.1.0.zip

ProgDVB 4.83.4 / 5.05
ProgDVB allows you to watch Digital Television and listen to Radio channels directly from satellite by using DVB cards with hardware decoders on the board, SAT-dish, and personal x86-compatible computers.

YouTube awards video makers
Google Inc.'s YouTube service has announced the winners of its inaugural awards. The popular video-sharing site wanted to pay tribute to the users who created content and uploaded it to the service, helping..

SubtitleCreator 2.2.1 Beta
SubtitleCreator allows you to convert subtitle files to the binary format expected by DVD authoring tools such as Muxman, IfoEdit or ReJig. Create and add your own subtitles to a DVD. In many ways, SubtitleCreator is similar to Srt2sup, but it is faster, uses the IFO color palette, has new synchronization features, and is easier to use. Requires .net framework.

‘Free’ music has its price 
If you’ve had a recent conversation with friends about the music scene, one person in the group will usually admit to illegally downloading music from the Internet.

Sonic Updates CinePlayer CE Navigator to Target Burgeoning In-Car Entertainment Market 
NOVATO, Calif.–Sonic Solutions , the leader in digital media software, today announced a collaboration with QNX Software Systems, the leading operating system provider for the in-car infotainment industry, to address the growing market opportunity for automobile entertainment.

Rocket Division Software Announces New OEM and Channel Partner Programs for the StarWind iSCSI Target 
Rocket Division Software, a leading vendor of iSCSI storage target software, StarWind, which runs on Microsoft Windows allowing any server to access centralized storage, announces new partner programs for OEMs and Channel Partners.

Subaye.com Provides Video Web Page Developing and Marketing Services for Corporate Video Users 
Telecom Communications, Inc. , the Total Solutions Provider, announced today that its subsidiary, Subaye.com provides video web page developing, host and marketing for its corporate video users.

Rev. Reginald Marshall Celebrates 21 Years in Radio 
GNTV and Next Level Publishing announces a “Live” DVD Recording honoring Rev. Reginald Marshall for 21 years in Radio. [PR.com - March 18, 2007]

Southeast Christian gets Indiana zoning OK 
The Jeffersonville Plan Commission voted unanimously last night to rezone a highly visible site near Interstate 65 to accommodate a Southeast Christian Church satellite sanctuary.

DVD Flick 1.2.1.3
DVD Flick is a simple but at the same time powerful all-in-one DVD Converter and Authoring tool. It can take several video files stored on your computer and turn them into a DVD that will play back on your DVD player, Media Center or Home Cinema Set. Support for WMV, WMA, MPEG2, FLV, 3GP and more in latest 1.2.0+ releases.

Upmix Avi/Stereo to Avi/5.1
I am using an JVC TH-P7 system ( http://www.soundandvisiononline.com/moreinfo/index.asp?product_id=11444 ) The amplifier is in the Dvd player, its all the one system. I set it to all sourround but it cuts off when the avi movie starts. What should I do ? Dan

Boycotting the RIAA? 
Commentary: Will boycotting the RIAA for a month do anything? Is it a practical campaign? Is DRM evil, or is it a tool most often used for evil?