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Following Successful Launch, Riney Executes Second Phase of Earthquake
Market Wire - In addition to a press conference hosted by American Red Cross Bay Area CEO Harold Brooks, there will be an official unveiling of “Super Crack,” a chilling special effect depicting a 60-foot crack ripping through one of the city’s prime tourist spots

Weak link last season, Texas secondary must improve
ESPN.com - Yet opponents passed the ball up and down the field, regularly ripping Texas for long touchdowns. They never resolved the oddest of conundrums as they fell from national champs to second in the Big 12 South. Now No. 4 Texas is looking for improvement

Walpole grabs opening victory
Boston Globe - He did just that, battling back from 0 and 2 to a full count, then ripping a curveball off the left-center-field fence on one hop, scoring pinch runner P.J. Hayes and Adams, who had both advanced on a wild pitch. Falkson knocked in an insurance run

Big Money Gets Behind Casual Games
MediaPost - LOTS OF NEWS FOR CASUAL games lovers this week. For one, a study by Macrovision found that 83% percent of gamers surveyed would be willing to watch a 30-second ad in exchange for free gameplay. That’s a good sign for the longevity of the 30-second

Macrovision Cuts Quarterly Forecast
Street.Com - The Santa Clara, Calif.-based developer of multimedia content-distribution software said revenue for the quarter ended in June would be between $57 million and $59 million, instead of the $65 million to $68 million projection it had previously issued

EFF Prepared Testimony at Copyright Office section 1201 rule-making
Electronic Frontier Foundations - In July 2001, Macrovision reportedly made a test release in the United States, including one title that had sold almost 100,000 units [1] . This followed a report in May 2001, which quoted Marc Tokayer, the CEO of Macrovision partner TTR Audio, as

reported last year
Wired - Buy a TiVo lately? Sometime in the next few months, your machine will quietly download a patch that makes it respond to a new copy protection scheme from software maker Macrovision. The app puts restrictions on how long your DVR can save certain

x264 Encoder r670
x264 is an open source H264/AVC based video codec. The x264 CLI is a command line x264 encoder tool and it can be used with MEGUI.

Correcting white balance using Sony Vegas
Hello, May I suggest to you to download Mike Crash’s Auto Levels filter for Vegas and try it. I have used it in the past and it is a wonderful filter for getting consistant levels from shot to shot. Give it a try! http://www.mikecrash.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=viewdownloaddetails&lid=47&ttitle=Auto_Levels Nice tip,…

DVDR discussion: DVDR media: DVD Identifier for some media on sale 8/12-8/19
Latest post to a thread “DVD Identifier for some media on sale 8/12-8/19″ has been made by sheempa at 18 August 2007 17:07

Humans employed to filter YouTube
Although Google says it will be implementing an automated filtering system later this year to stop copyrighted material from finding its way to YouTube, it seems for now, humans are employed to find the..

TsRemux 0.0.18
Transport Stream Re-muxer with blu-ray/Sat/OTA and now MPG/VOB/EVOB stream support. Ability to trim streams at the beginning and/or the end, Ability to pick and choose elementary streams to be kept, Ability to remux PCR-less streams, Ability to remux program streams (MPG/VOB/EVOB) into TS/M2TS, Ability to demux elementary streams as well as subtitle streams compatible with SUPreader (right click the selected stream with the mouse)

AnyDVD & AnyDVD HD 6.1.7.0
AnyDVD is a driver, which descrambles DVD-Movies and BluRay, HD DVD Movies automatically in the background. This DVD appears unprotected and region code free for all applications and the Windows operating system as well. With the help of AnyDVD you can watch movies with non matching region codes with every DVD Player Software you like!

Odd rendering borders! Help!
http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/5/borderszj7.png Whats with these big black borders around the video? Whenever I try to full screen it in WMP it doesn’t change to full screen, it just has these big black borders around it. This is AFTER I export my movie from Premiere. The original clips do NOT have these borders btw. Am I missing a set…

August 2004
Out-Law - settle ad patent dispute Rules for using internet dialler software Data retention is the main compliance headache for banks Intellectual property crime strategy in UK Mexican tourist board foiled in hijack of Mexico.com Movie industry settles DVD-copying

Press Release Tips and Template
PRWeb - “Our customers loved them (PRWeb releases) also! Some of our customers began to hear from local and national news organizations wanting to do stories on their businesses. We knew right away we had a valuable new service to offer our customers

DVD burning kiosks planned for the holidays
Video Business - For that reason, some content holders also will require anti-ripping protection such as Macrovision s RipGuard on discs burned through kiosks, Taylor said. RipGuard is already used by some major studios on commercially produced discs, and Sonic has

The FilmMachine 1.6.0.6 beta
All In One AVI,MP4 to DVD/(S)VCD conversion utility. Supports DVD subtitles(both permanent and selectable). NTSC to PAL and PAL to NTSC conversion. It also supports standalone encoders like CinemaCraft Encoder SP and Canopus Procoder.

Mobile devices: iPod discussion: need help asap
Latest post to a thread “need help asap” has been made by jazo132 at 12 August 2007 01:59

TsRemux 0.0.17
Transport Stream Re-muxer with blu-ray/Sat/OTA and now MPG/VOB/EVOB stream support. Ability to trim streams at the beginning and/or the end, Ability to pick and choose elementary streams to be kept, Ability to remux PCR-less streams, Ability to remux program streams (MPG/VOB/EVOB) into TS/M2TS, Ability to demux elementary streams as well as subtitle streams compatible with SUPreader (right click the selected stream with the mouse)

Archiving old hi-8 video?
Get a external Harddrive, cheap these days. Great for storage along with Dv tapes. That way you have two options. I do it all the time with my old betamax & laser disc movies, also family home movies.

Microsoft applauds piracy conviction
Microsoft has applauded today's federal court decision to sentence a man convicted of selling pirated MS software along with faked certificates of authenticity.

Premium Xbox 360s now shipping with HDMI port
According to Shacknews, Microsoft has confirmed that their new reduced price Premium Xbox 360 consoles will also be shipping with a new HDMI port.

Audio not matching with video
Yes the problem was the audio coming in after the video (34 sec -approx) so I didn’t need silence, I needed to remove slience. Tripp recommended VDubMod to check and see if I had been able to remove enough silence from the beginning to get the two tracks to sync.

VideoSync 1.0.5.37
Take your favorite videos with you wherever you go, it s like carrying your videos right in your pocket. With TMPGenc VideoSync s easy-to-use interface, you can drag and drop videos from your PC and enjoy them on your PSP, iPod, or PDA… it s your choice.

How can I play avi files on a SD media card on my TV?
Okay, best i can think of is to get yourself a Divx/Dvd Player which has slots for memory cards or a USB port. It’s much to hard to find a TV which has a reader in it already so this is probably your best bet.

Looking to buy a HD Camcorder
These two camcorders look very interesting: Hitachi DZBD7HA Panasonic HDC-SX5 If all you want is to record and play from the camera (or Blu-Ray DVD) then go for it. If you want to edit on a computer, you need to understand all the limitations of AVCHD MPeg4. In other words, don’t come home crying when you didn’t do your homework….

Power DVD Copy Problem
It happens with any dvd he tries. I think he also tried to burn something which was on his computer but got the same error.