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Transcript: Personal Tech
Washington Post - Is that still the case, given that most conventional DVDs can be upconverted to 1080 (apart from the advent of BlueRay and HD-DVD)? At what point does it become the new standard? Rob Pegoraro: No, I still think 1080p is a waste of money for most people

Next-generation iMac tracking for August
Think Secret - Throw the already existing technology touchscreen iphone capability, mac tv, slot loading blueray, and you’ve got a game changing tele. I would personally like a 37 to 42 inch option. This would jibe with the Apple is now a technology company bit as

Blockbuster goes with Blu-ray
Spokane Spokesman-Review - The move also will benefit a Blu-ray disc manufacturing plant planned for downtown Spokane by Valencia, Calif.-based BlueRay Technologies Inc., said Erick Hansen, CEO and chief technologist. While Hansen said BlueRay has scaled back plans for

Blog: Software Metal Gear Solid 4 Confirmed as PlayStation 3 Exclusive
DailyTech - PS3 is a blueray player and this isn’t a price drop it is phasing out the 60gb sku for $100 dollars until no more are in stock, to release an 80gb sku for the $599 price point which would probably cost them about $5 more to put in in hopes to spur

MPEG 2 Conversion to DV Video ruins aspect ratio
… I’m using ffmpegx , and I’ve tried dvdrop - exact same results. I’m sure the video is widescreen because the source mpeg is identified as 720×480, and looks just wrong in 640×480 mode For DV format, 720×480 is used for both 4:3 and 16:9 (wide) aspect video. The only difference is pixel aspect ratio and the wide flag. When t…

CTpvr 2.2 build 9
CTpvr records your favorite TV shows on to your PC so you can watch them around your schedule. You can also pause live TV never missing a second of any show you watch. Turned away for one moment or had to answer the phone only to miss what happened. just rewind in an instance and play it back again.

hotlog
I run NoScript on Firefox.

George Ou
ZDNet.be Blogs - The integrated graphics market is one of the least glamorous platforms in desktop computing, but it is probably one of the most important since 90% of the PC market is dominated by integrated graphics. Not only is the chipset itself a valuable

Groove Mobile launches musical dual download service with 3 UK
MobileTechNews - The Groove Mobile powered video download service will also allow customers who purchase videos OTA to receive an optimized mobile version of the video directly to their handset and have the option to download a higher quality WMV file of the video to

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Gamasutra - solid terrain and objects, new rain and ocean effects, new runtime mesh-adding functions, document encryption to protect files from being edited without a password, line, triangle and rectangle drawing tools with transparency for both 2D and 3D, WMV

US probably won't be prepared for DTV transition
Despite most consumers being unaware that their analog television receivers won't receive broadcast signals early in 2009, the US government has only budgeted $5 million to educate them.

Kiss DTV 2 DVD v2007.R07
Easily convert DTV/DVB recorded MPEG-TSs to DVD-complaint MPEGs or streams. Also works great as a batch encoder/ demuxer. Uses FFmpeg(encoder), Comskip(automatic commercial detection), DGIndex demux. Requires MS Framework 2.0.

Taiyo Yuden 16X Water Shield White Inkjet Hub Printable DVD-R Media
spiffy : I can tell you that the current version (5) of SureThing has templates for Canon Pixma printers. I don’t have a Canon printer, so I can’t tell you how well it works; but my experience with SureThing has always been positive. It is mature software, with first-class technical support. Can I buy the software from a brick-n-mortar store?…

Company or Topic: Walt Disney
CNET News - Financial Times is reporting that Apple is in “advanced talks with Hollywood’s largest movie studios” to launch an online video rental service. Flicks will cost $3 to rent for 30 days and can be moved to at least one other device, such as an iPod or

Net Transport 2.44
Net Transport is the fastest and most powerful downloading tool and streaming media download tool that you ever saw, now support the most prevalent Internet protocols, including: HTTP / HTTPS, FTP / through SSL / SFTP, MMS , RTSP, PNM and streaming media like ASF, WMV, MOV, RM, RAM, RVB, etc.

CTpvr 2.2 build 8
CTpvr records your favorite TV shows on to your PC so you can watch them around your schedule. You can also pause live TV never missing a second of any show you watch. Turned away for one moment or had to answer the phone only to miss what happened. just rewind in an instance and play it back again.

SimpleMovieX 3.1.1
The Happy QuickTime Pro Replacement that Does MPEG. Features: Imports and Exports files from many types, Imports also DAT (VideoCD), MPEG-2 is supported( QuickTime MPEG-2 Playback Componen required), Exports to MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 formats, Supports additional codecs like DivX or 3ivx, Basic editing covered by Cut, Copy, Paste, Add, Add Scaled and Trim operations, Frame-accurate editing and more.

Conversion from mkv to avi that produced error in picture.
avi doesn’t support VFR Then why does the avi desync with the mp3? I mean, if the program already knows in what time what fps is? avi doesn’t support vfr What you say would have been really useful in case i wanted to re-compress the avi, but alltoavi already does that for me.It really is interesting things to know, however it does …

Online video service buying sports network
Online video service JumpTV Inc. said on Tuesday it would buy a U.S. college sports broadband network for $60.25 million to expand beyond its portfolio of ethnic channels.

The Best CIS ?
Are there any brands/models of All-In-One printers that support CIS? I thought there was a Canon or Epson that had scanning, fax, printing, copying and CIS was made for it. Thanx! Epson’s new model RX580 and its CIS. http://www.inkrepublic.com/R260.asp You also need to install an external waste ink bottle http://www.inkrepublic.com/Kno…

Lagarith Lossless Video Codec 1.3.14
Lagarith is a lossless video codec. Lagarith offers excellent compression. Lagarith is able to operate in several colorspaces - RGB24, RGB32, RGBA, YUY2, and YV12. Also, Lagarith will never down-sample video, preventing inadvertent quality loss. For DVD video, the compression is typically only 10-30% better than Huffyuv. However, for high static scenes or highly compressible scenes, Lagarith significantly outperforms Huffyuv.

Family fare
Chicago Sun-Times - The MPAA is right about the “crude sexual content throughout.” There are many vulgar terms and references to both gay and straight sex, including multiple partners (separately and all at once), pornography, a “fun” doll, lubricant, sexual arousal

Critic’s Notebook
Philadelphia Inquirer - Smoking is increasingly an unacceptable behavior in our society,” Dan Glickman, president of the MPAA, said in his statement last week. “No parent wants their child to take up the habit. The appropriate response of the rating system is to give more

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

Company or Topic: Walt Disney
CNET News - Financial Times is reporting that Apple is in “advanced talks with Hollywood’s largest movie studios” to launch an online video rental service. Flicks will cost $3 to rent for 30 days and can be moved to at least one other device, such as an iPod or

Press Release Tips and Template
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Global legal challenges: General Counsel Forum, Stanford s E
ZDNet.be Blogs - Discusses DVD copying case Universal won in France. We had a lot of good meals along the way (More laughs.) Discusses the fact they have and keep hiring local legal experts around the world. Daniel Cooperman: points out that even