DVD Backup & Video Encoding Blog

French appeals court bars DVD copying
Political Gateway - PARIS, April 6 (UPI) — A French appeals court declared the “right to copy” doesn’t exist for the DVD format, making it illegal to copy material to a DVD. In a statement, the French video syndicate SEV said the ruling is in accordance with

Roll Over Beethoven
Film Stew - Roll Over Beethoven A certain portion of the new DVD Copying Beethoven ranks as one of the great moments of 2006 cinema. Too bad filmmaker Agnieszka Holland didn t go further with it. Tuesday, April 3, 2007 at 2:10 PM By Kevin Biggers

Company or Topic: Walt Disney
CNET News - Reuters - Liberty Media Holding Corp.’s Starz Entertainment cable network said on Thursday it is suing a unit of Walt Disney Co. for allowing other movie download services to sell titles while they were exclusively licensed to Starz. All Parents

Thank you PR WEB.
PRWeb - “After being picked-up by over 1,190 PRWeb subscribers, and ending up on E*TRADE radio as a result, we’re more than happy with the value proposition you folks have put together. Where else can you put out a measly $200 and be seen by such high

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

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

Two disc movie to one disc
I’ll tell my friend to never give me a copy of his movies. In the mean time I would like to get this movie on one DVD.

Consoles: Sony PSP - Mod and firmware discussion: official web site
Latest post to a thread “official web site” has been made by staxx at 15 April 2007 00:39

Philips DVP5960 won’t play MP3 CDs ?
Just got a Philips DVP5960. The MP3 CD-Rs I burned will not play at all. I burned 2 Sony CDs using Itunes one ‘data’ one ‘music’ The ‘music’ disc plays part of the first MP3, then skips & dies (all I can do is eject). The ‘data’ disk will not play at all. Just dies. I burned a MP3 data disk with Nero with the same result - just dies - n…

‘Grindhouse’ takes stab at slasher flicks
Los Angeles Times - Grindhouse.” MPAA rating: R for strong graphic, bloody violence and gore, pervasive language, some sexuality, nudity and drug use. Running time: 3 hours, 11 minutes. In general release.

Debating the MPAA’s mission
USA Today - LOS ANGELES No one can hawk a movie like Harvey Weinstein. But when it comes to facing off against the Motion Picture Association of America, one of the most brash studio chiefs in Hollywood can get a little sheepish. Which is why Weinstein

Dogs sniffing out pirate copies
BBC News - Lucky and Flo are joining the fight against DVD piracy Two dogs trained in Northern Ireland are getting a break in the movie business, by sniffing out pirates. Female black

Escape: I spy with my X-ray eye
Mac User - I thought Al Qaeda was bankrolled by DVD piracy.’ ‘Very funny, sir.’ ‘Thanks, I’m here all week.’ ‘You will be.’ If the X-ray system turns out not to be any use - although that’s never stopped the Government spending several billion on an IT contract

Rants + Raves
Wired - In other industry news, readers couldn’t decide whether the American who was busted for DVD piracy in China (”The Decline & Fall of Randolph Hobson Guthrie III”) was a “dumb-ass” or just “got pawned.” How should we know? We’re waiting for the movie

Mayor Bloomberg, MPAA Announce Anti-Piracy Initiative
World Screen News - Similar in design to the City s Trademark Counterfeiting Initiative, the MPAA, NYPD, and Office of Special Enforcement (OSE) will work together to identify buildings in New York City where suspected DVD piracy operations are located. Once those

Keep aspect ratio with SUPER
As long as the QTInput plugin and MediaInfo can handle the mov file then FAVC will maintain the correct aspect ratio.

Digital video discussion: Software discussion: Rip DVD to MP4?
Latest post to a thread “Rip DVD to MP4?” has been made by purewater at 9 April 2007 05:59

SATA vs IDE
I have the SAMSUNG 183L SATA dvd burner which burns quite well. I do notice that the device buffer is steady at 100% when burning a dvd disc. Where as all my other dvd burners the buffer goes up and down.

Car buyers clamor for top audio 
Pampered at home by surround sound, car buyers are demanding the same audio quality in their vehicles — plus the ability to bring their music with them in a variety of formats.

Top DVD sales 
Top DVD sales

Are Cheap DVD Burners Worth the Trouble? 
There are noticeable differences in performance between various low-end $40 DVD burners. Our tests of five devices from LG, Pioneer, Samsung and Sony show what you can expect.

DVD conversion for use on iPod 
Question: I just bought my wife a new 30-gigabyte video iPod for her birthday. We have converted all of her CDs using iTunes, and she loves it. We have some old videos of our children playing in the high school marching band, and we would love to load them on the iPod also.

Where to sip off Las Vegas’ beaten Strip 
There’s no angst at the Freakin’ Frog, just hundreds of beers and whiskeys to try. LAS VEGAS

New on DVD 
This fascinating and disturbing film based on a P.D. James novel envisions a future in which the world is in chaos and only London has retained a measure of stability.

PlayStation3 needs to boost content 
Nearly five months into the release of Sony’s greatest entertainment console, the PlayStation 3 (PS3), I am still scratching my head with its Sixaxis controller, wondering how long it will take to see some spectacular content.

TVPredictions.com Forum 
Make your voice heard on High-Definition TV! Can Blu-ray Replace the DVD? In 3 Years? The group representing the high-def DVD format makes a bold claim.

Talk About Wow Factor Super High Definition 4K Delivers 
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. Dont look now, but a production technology known as 4K is emerging that puts high definition television, Blue Ray DVDs and even IMAX to shame is emerging.

PRESS RELEASE: Gamestation’s Midnight PlayStation 3 Launch Packs
gamesindustry.biz - Thousands of gamers queued up outside the video games store to collect their new 60GB Playstation3 consoles that also allow gamers to watch films with Blue-Ray technology and plug in their MP3 players to browse and play tracks. There are still plenty

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DailyTech - Yes it is high priced mostly because of the blue ray drive but every new cycle with consoles people complain about how expensive they are compared to the previous gen. I have no problem with the PS3 and wouldn’t mind getting one if I could afford it