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Consoles: PS2 - DVD backup discussion: Blank DVD
Latest post to a thread “Blank DVD” has been made by HG27 at 31 August 2007 21:58

NBC abandons iTunes?
According to the online edition of the New York Times, NBC Universal has declined to renew its contract with Apple Inc.'s iTunes download store. The paper cites a source close to the situation which put..

Where to get DVD DL disks cheap?
Bestbuy has them on sale this week. $29.99 for a 20 pack. That’s $1.50 each before taxes. http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=7642562&st=verbatim&type=product&id=1134697746286

Cowon second to reach 16GB ahead of iPod
MacNN - Both players are otherwise unchanged and include audio support for FLAG, OGG, MP3, and WMA as well as MPEG-4 and XviD clips at either half the frame rate (for the iAudio 7) or full speed (for the D2). Both work with Macs and Windows PCs, and should

Gadgets Creative Prepares New Slim PMP
DailyTech - It supports audio and video playback of MP3, WMA, AAC, WMV, DivX, Xvid, MJPEG and TiVo to go formats. Other notable features include integrated FM tuner and voice recorder. Expect the Creative ZEN to release into retail channels next month with a

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DailyTech - They are all 320×240 but the Zen Vision M has a downscaler, so you can drop most DivX’s on it and it will play with no problem. I have yet to have a DivX/Xvid that wouldn’t work. I believe with the Apple Video you need to re-encode everything at

Record shows onto external drive with Dish DVR 625?
Hello, I recently switched to Dish and got the DVR 625: http://www.tvguideonscreen.com/support/echostar/recordingdvr.asp I see that it has a usb port on the back so I plugged in my flash drive. I did this: and then set a program to record to the external device: However when I looked at my flash later on my computer there was nothing t…

AvsP 2.0.0
AvsP is a text editor built for AviSynth, a video scripting language.

Future Xbox 360 games may require hard drive
TG Daily - There are a majority of us out there who do not even own an HDTV, so the fact that PS3 comes with Blueray is meaningless, I want to play games on my console, not watch movies (wow, what an idea). The ps3 is not overpriced if you are in need of a blue

Dog days of summer
Spokane Spokesman-Review - changeovers go. The photos and graphics are expected to reproduce more sharply over time. As for content, it was kind of a slow news day but the following stories received comments: Valley lot size hearing; Spokane parks Bond; and the BlueRay disc

Blueray on ps3
Digital Spy - I have just watched my first blueray movie. I have to say i werent that impressed. The camera movment looked to jitter. There faces seemed a tad blury and distorted to. Only thing that seeed different was detail on the ground. like you could see

Gadgets Update: Xbox 360 Premiums Now Shipping With HDMI Port
DailyTech - Xbox 360 Premium with HDMI port (Source: Shacknews) Xbox 360 documentation which notes HDMI port (Source: Shacknews) Shacknews reader finds an HDMI port on his new Xbox 360 Premium Yesterday, Microsoft announced across-the-board price cuts for its

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DailyTech - 2900 for this when you can pay $2300 for a top iMac with 2.8ghz C2D and a display actually capable of doing 1920×1080. i hope sony are packing a 1080p capable display in the $2900 model,i mean it has got Blueray so you’d hope they would. for an extra

IT NYT Confirms $150M HD DVD Exclusivity Deal
DailyTech - But it was really a one man race, since sony never submitted bd for consideration, technically they were never rejected or approved. Best part is 6 or 7 out of the 10 original (the big players) of the DVD forum now support Blueray as the format of

UK study shows DVRs affecting DVD viewing
DVRs have earned the enmity of broadcasters and advertisers alike by enabling viewers to easily skip their least favorite bit of the TV watching experience, commercials. Another group may be moving the..

Taiyo Yuden 16X Water Shield White Inkjet Hub Printable DVD-R Media
I have an Epson R800 and the Ty water shield - I also use SureThing to make my disc… I have found that the black ink seems to be the problem. I set my media type to be glossy photo paper instead of CD/DVD and that seems to have fixed my promblem. I would like to figure why I need to do that - I printed a dosc that was solid black with a yello…

Comskip 0.79.99
Comskip is a free mpeg commercial detector. It is a windows console application that reads a mpeg file and analyses the content based on a large amount of configurable parameters. After analysis it generates a file in various possible formats containing the location of the commercials inside the mpeg file. The formats include input files for interactive video editors (VideoRedo, Cuttermaran,…) command line video cutters (mpgtx, mencoder) and video players (zoomplayer, mplayer.

Second Quarter 2007 Financial Results
DVD Creation - In conjunction with the Adobe agreement, ViewCast signed a license agreement with On2 Technologies, Inc. for Flash live video encoding technologies for integration into the company’s Niagara streaming media appliances. Executive Announcements

First dual-format, high-def player arrives
Video Business - The Super Multi Blu HD player is shipping without an HD DVD logo, meaning it isn t guaranteed to play interactive HD DVD bonus features, have Internet access to features or meet HD DVD s video encoding standards. Circuit City even warns on its

FotoMagico 2.1 offers Apple TV, iPhone export
MacWorld UK - This means users can quickly establish some form of colour consistency without affecting their original image files. The software also includes improvements in the applications video encoding technology for those users who may want to export films

News Blog: Posts tagged Hot Chips
CNET News - MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) image reconstruction Fluid dynamics H.264 video encoding Although all three of these applications are parallelizable to a certain extent, they have different levels of suitability for the GeForce 8800 architecture. The

Arris Issues Official Bid for Tandberg TV
Multichannel Online - Deal Would Combine Networking-Equipment Vendor, Video-Encoding Provider By Todd Spangler — Multichannel News, 2/15/2007 4:30:00 PM Arris launched a tender offer Thursday for the shares of Tandberg Television, a deal announced Jan. 15 , valuing

SimpleDivX 1.40.25
SimpleDivX is a graphical user-interface for converting a DVD to XviD, DivX, H264 AVI with MP3, OGG or AC3 audio.

MediaCoder 0.6.0 3858
MediaCoder is a free audio/video batch transcoder, putting together many excellent audio/video softwares from the open source community into one friendly GUI. On video side, MEncoder, ffmpeg are used as back-end, which provides support for nearly all known video compression and container formats as well as rich and useful video filtering features (e.g. post-processing, 3D de-noise).

How to burn a ISO file on a Mac? Can this be done?
If it is a well-behaved ISO (some aren’t) Toast 7 or 8 will mount it. Then you can burn from it.

Aud-X 1.24
Aud-X is the name of very efficient mp3 5.1 (surround) sound encoder and decoder. For a long time people converted DVDs to Divx/Xvid with mp3 stereo sound. The main Aud-X project task was to bring to people an easy technology for encoding Divx/Xvid movies with 5.1 sound the same way they used to do it with the simple mp3 stereo encoders.

key exchange for dvd copyright protection
Whatever is going on, this is NOT a hardware problem, so buying a new DVD drive will be a waste of money. RealPlayer and WMP are really not the best choice for DVD playback. I can’t rule out that your problem is just that they are flaking out on you. Try VLC and if that fails, I’d advise scanning your PC with some kind of anti-virus program….

MKVtoolnix 2.1.0
MKVtoolnix will evolve into a set of tools to create, alter and inspect Matroska files(mkv). Command line tools but mkvmerge GUI included (mmg.exe). Use MKVExtractGUI to extract/demultiplex mkv video and audio files.

Virtualdub-MPEG2 1.6.19 build 24560
Virtualdub mod with MPEG2(SVCD, DVD, VOB) import support. Experimental ASF/WMV parsing in latest versions.

LCD Projector Shows a DVD as Blank When Using Windows Media Player 10
Thank you all for your suggestions so far. I’ll try them today and hopefully one of the suggestions will resolve this. The PC’s that had WMP8 and WMP10 were different PC’s. The DVD ’s that were tried on four of the PC’s (same operating system,XP SP2 with WMP10) were a pre-recorded disc and another was a presentation that was put together with …

Help converting home movie dvd to avi/wmv for web
Hello all, I’ve been given a non-copyright protected, basically a home movie, on dvd (.vob, etc files). I need to convert it to .wmv for streaming on a website. I’ve tried dvd to avi, but it keeps crashing on me (both on XP pro sp2 and on Vista Ultimate, more than enough ram, processor & hd space). I know that once i get it to an avi I ca…

BitTorrent to Launch Movie, TV Downloads
Yahoo Finance - BitTorrent’s decentralized structure also frustrated the entertainment industry’s efforts to find and identify movie pirates. In 2005, after the studios won a key legal decision against another pirate software company, Grokster, Cohen agreed to remove

Movie roles not new for rock stars
Star-Banner - Rock’s walking urban legend is now a movie star. Keith Richards hits the big-screen this week, playing Johnny Depp’s old man in the movie “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End.” Richards, 63, is on screen for a couple of minutes and appears, as

Could audio watermarking help make MP3s free?
Computerworld - August 15, 2007 (Computerworld) — A technology mostly associated today with crackdowns on music and movie pirates could instead be used to help make multimedia content free — and file-sharing legal. So claims a small Seattle firm, Activated Content

Talkers: At Illinois State Fair, eggs were put on sticks
Kansas City Star - The operations were so successful that Malaysian movie pirates were reported to have placed a bounty of $29,000 on the dogs. Incredible, edible eggs SPRINGFIELD, Ill. | Mix one egg with ingredients of choice. Put results on a stick. That s about all