Upgrade September 2006: Blue-Ray Test Drive, Next-Gen Gaming, A Four
Popular Mechanics - Hardware: With nine months and some 80 games under its belt, the 360 is the next-generation console to beat. But now the 360 is in danger of becoming the least technologically impressive of the pack, lacking the PS3 s supercomputing power and the
Jack Valenti, dies; Catholic helped set up film ratings ; was White
Catholic Online - In 1966, Valenti took the helm of the MPAA, where he marshaled a disparate group of Hollywood studio executives into one of the most respected lobbies in Washington - in part due to his insistence on having a ratings system to guide parents as to
What Jack Valenti Did for Hollywood
Time - In 1966, when Jack Valenti was named the head of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), the studio system was largely intact. Industry pioneers like Jack Warner and Darryl Zanuck were still running the companies they had founded. Old lions
Counterfeit CDs and DVDs seized in Ireland
Irish Garda have seized about 3,000 counterfeit CDs and DVDs as part of an investigation in the midlands. The goods were found at five houses in the Edgeworthstown area of Co. Longford which were searched..
Urgent, should I return to store
I may be asking a stupid question, but thought I would ask before hauling all this back to the store. I currently have an internal cd burner. I purchased, an external dvd cd writer. Hooked it up, the cord the plugs into to get power, has one of those black boxes on it, and the green light on that does come on. The little tiny circle green …
Mobile devices: Nokia - Unlocking: Please, help me to unlock my Nokia 6101
Latest post to a thread “Please, help me to unlock my Nokia 6101″ has been made by etowah at 28 April 2007 09:18
Jobs: Consumers not interested in music subscription services
Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs has cast doubt on the rumors that Apple will be forced to implement a music subscription model alongside its pay-once download service. Apple's iTunes is responsible for about..
SmallDVD 0.8
SmallDVD is a simple DVD authoring utility for MacOSX that will take ready-encoded MPEG2 files and create a DVD image from them that can be burnt using Disk Utility. It is an AppleScript front-end for dvdauthor and a variety of other existing command line tools.
TMPGEnc DVD Author 3.0.8.158
TMPGEnc DVD Author 3 with DivX Authoring offers many new features and some terrific advancements over its predecessors. It is the ultimate all-in-one DVD authoring solution for any video enthusiast, whether youre a beginner or experienced videographer. Enjoy new features such as DivX authoring, HDV capture, more import formats, up to two subtitle streams, and more! Builtin DVD editing, import DVD-Video, VOB Files, DVD-VR, DVD-RAM. Add 2 audio tracks and 2 subtitle streams.
Hardware Sony’s Secret Weapon Against HD DVD: 20GB
DailyTech - That 25GB format is a single layer And how many titles on HD-DVD are single layered? Wait, that would make them 15GB! Your math is a bit off A full HD-DVD disc is a bit bigger than a half full BlueRay disc.
Friday launch for PS3 in SA
Biz Community - in a sleek black casing designed to enhance the contemporary home entertainment-lifestyle, the PS3 enables games and multimedia to be viewed and experienced in a High-Definition (HD) environment with top-end audiovisual potential through BlueRay DVD
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DailyTech - The PS3 will sell for those who want the HD abilities of the BlueRay Drive reguardless of it being a gaming machine and this will create a solid base for BlueRay to build upon. In order for HD-DVD to win it needs its set top units to drop in price
AMD and Intel haven’t got a clue
The Inquirer - AMD Live playing off on the ability of a dual/quad core to real-time decode h.264, a la HD DVD or Blueray, seems both camps would pitch in coop money at this point in their desperate struggle to become defacto standard. . The point being, I m not
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DailyTech - Saying blueray or HDDVD discs are required to play our games is a load of crap, Spreading them out on several discs and make each disc a ‘chapter’ works fine, besides the time it takes to complete 1 chapter, the disc would have been swapped out
IT Sony CEO Stringer on Why PS3 May Fail and Blu-ray Will Win
DailyTech - Blueray although as a Movie product that must have AACS as a game product IS REGION FREE! Unlike other systems it is possible to buy a UK game that we can reasonable read and play it without having a UK PS3. For being an anti-fairuse company Sony must
Valenti ratings deemed antidote to censorship
MSNBC - in the streets, rise in women s liberation, protest of the young, doubts about the institution of marriage, abandonment of old guiding slogans, and the crumbling of social traditions, Valenti wrote in a history of the ratings system on the MPAA
Third time’s a charm
MLive.com - They don’t have the self-appointed MPAA watchdogs to deal with either, because their versions of the films will be uncut. As for the “missing reels” in the movie? Is it what the MPAA told them to cut in order to avoid an NC-17? “The reason (for the
‘Sing Now or Forever Hold Your Peace’
Los Angeles Times - Sing Now or Forever Hold Your Peace.” MPAA rating: Unrated. Strong language, sexual situations, adult themes. Running time: 1 hour, 34 minutes. At selected theaters.
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Detroit News - Nicholas Angel is the finest cop London has to offer, with an arrest record 400 percent higher than any other officer on the force. He’s so good, he makes everyone else look bad. As a result, Angel’s superiors send him to a place where his talents
Mobile devices: Nokia - Unlocking: Help in unlocking Nokia 6103 B
Latest post to a thread “Help in unlocking Nokia 6103 B” has been made by arodxli at 25 April 2007 22:56
Not for Attribution
Los Angeles Times - For example, if a news site were to post a copy of this column and ring it with ads for DVD-copying software , Attributor might give the site a choice: pay me a share of the ad revenue, pay me a flat fee, or take my column down. (Attributor’s specific
April 2002
Out-Law - text messaging should be opt-in, says EU Committee Nominet warns of .uk name renewal scam Bill Gates in the witness box for the first time UK Government failing on electronic crime, say lobbyists Movie studios sued for right to sell DVD copying software
Product Reviews
Mac User - Verdict: Forget the DVD-to-DVD copying and use it as a great way to encode any video content on your Mac for your iPod, phone or PlayStation Portable Our first thought when we reviewed Popcorn 1.0, Roxio’s application for DVD-to-DVD copying was, ‘why
December 2003
Out-Law - law signed by President Bush Too many homepages have broken links, says report E-marketers warned by ASA for not getting consent Privacy chief to revisit Data Protection guidance after Durant Europe approves air passenger data transfers to US DVD copying
wide screen
If you just want to letterbox, then virtualdubmpeg2 and the resize filter is the simplest. Add the Null Transform filter, then click on Cropping. Crop 60 lines from the top and 60 from the bottom. Add a Resize filter and resize to 720 x 360 in the top section (which is what you have after the crop anyway), then tick the box to activate the bottom…
Converting a mono DVD to a stereo DVD
Explain how you think the left channel data somehow includes the right channel? Don’t you have the original tracks? You can always copy a left channel to right or visa versa but that doesn’t get you stereo. The old “stereo reprocessing” techniques separated channels by frequency.
K-Lite Codec Pack Basic v3.01
K-Lite Codec Pack Basic is a free software bundle which contains only the most essential
Videora iPod Converter v2.19
Videora iPod Converter is a free video conversion application developed by the creators of Videora. It allows you to convert your regular PC video files (avi, mpeg, etc) into the proper vide
Trying to connect laptop dvi outut to HDMI Input
Hello I have HP laptop with docking station (providing DVD-D Output) and a Sony Bravia 40 in full HD TV. I am trying to connect the two using the DVI output, a Male DVI to Female HDMI adapter, and a standard HDMI lead to the TV. I cannot seem to get any signal through to the TV whatsoever when I connect it all togother. I obviously chnage…