Freeware application AutoGK rips DVDs to hard drive-friendly DivX and Xvid formats for quick, easy, and high-quality backups. It does so by acting as an automating front-end to several other free ripping and encoding tools, which it automatically installs on your system.
Although I’ve never featured AutoGK, a lot of readers swear by it. If you [...]
If PC World is correct, then it looks like Sony’s pending, PS3 2.20 firmware (press release here) will have at least one little surprise for movie buffs. As if the inclusion of Blu-ray’s BD-Live interactivity and the removal of the 2GB DivX and WMV file-size cap wasn’t enough, PC World says that can also expect [...]
Just a few months after SlySoft revealed a beta of its AnyDVD HD software which obliterated BD+, v6.4.0.0 has finally arrived and proudly possesses the ability to “remove BD+ protection from Blu-ray Discs.” Among the other changes is an option to enable / disable BD+ removal, a fix for seeing a black display with some [...]
CEO Steve Ballmer said his company is working on Windows device driver support for the Blu-ray high definition movie format. Microsoft is developing software that will add native support for devices that play Sony’s Blu-ray high definition movie format to the Windows operating system, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said.
“We’ve already been working on, for example, [...]
The motion picture industry has said that its profits are at risk due to piracy, but a record-setting 2007 box office has some wondering if the industry is crying “wolf.” Last year, the US box office totaled $9.63 billion, a 5.4% increase over 2006.
From the Article: “Piracy is so bad, according to the MPAA, that [...]
I have a couple of iPods, and I manage all my music with iTunes as I am sure many, many other people out there do as well. Why do I mention this? Because some of my purchases (and yours too) contributed to making the iTunes Store the second largest music retailer in the US (according [...]
Those who rent videos from iTunes to play back on their Apple TV units may discover that they can’t watch them unless their displays support HDCP — the DRM technology that infects most Hollywood digital video these days.
From the Article: “When I attempted to watch the movie, however, the Apple TV displayed an error message: [...]
The New York Times is launching a service today called ShifD that sends your content to the cloud to make it easily accessible from your computer, phone or other devices.
From the Article: “The New York Times Co (NYSE: NYT). is launching a service today called ShifD that sends your content to the cloud to make [...]
Microsoft has decided to stop making HD DVD players for the Xbox 360. No word on supporting Blu-ray on the platform though
From the Article: “Microsoft said Saturday it would continue to provide standard warranty support for its HD DVD players. Toshiba President Atsutoshi Nishida last week estimated about 300,000 people own the Microsoft video player, [...]
Are you one of the few who boarded the HD-DVD Titanic ship headed to the bottom of ocean to join BetaMax? Fret no longer, friend, simply convert those and pretend like you never invested in the wrong technology!
First, get an HD DVD ripper—DVD Fab HD Decrypter is free—and rip them. Now it gets messy.
EVOdemux will [...]
Here are the step-by-step instructions for entering the contest, straight from the official rules so that there are no misunderstandings…
From Ars Technica: “Buzznet’s Valentine Zune Contest may be over, but The Zune A Day Giveaway is only beginning to heat up. Microsoft has figured out how to promote both the Zune and Windows [...]
Rumours are circulating today that Microsoft is set to dump HD DVD and bring out a Blu-ray Xbox 360 by as early as May 2008. The move will allow the company to go head to head with the Sony PS3 gaming console, which has been credited with being one of the main reasons that retailers [...]
Time is running out for Toshiba and friends; the high definition format wars are almost over. HD DVD hasn’t found the footing it needed to earn the support of retailers and studios alike, and it seems that Sony’s champion, Blu-Ray, is going to win the day.
So what does that mean for Apple users? Several years ago, Apple [...]
Toshiba appears to have judged its HD-DVD strategy correctly, if consumer research from price comparison service Pricegrabber is anything to go by. What’s stopping some from picking Blu-ray discs is not so much the risk of backing the loser in the format war as the high price of players. During January, Pricegrabber listed HD-DVD players [...]
As if an ISP filtering what content gets to you wasn’t enough, Cary Sherman of the infamous RIAA says that the only way to really defeat piracy is via a client-side monitoring service, much like an anti-virus client, except more like spyware. He says that the current problem that ISPs are facing with server-side filtering [...]
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