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| Analyze That: Videogames Are Bigger than the DVD Industry |  | The march of videogames to world domination is not slowing down. In the roughly 30 years since videogames have been around, they have become more and more important, both on a cultural and on an economical level. Some day, all other forms of entertainment that rely on vi ... [read more >>] | | 03 July 2008, 19:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| How HVDs Work |  | HVDs, or Holographic Versatile Discs, are a type of optical digital data storing devices bearing a striking resemblance to the construction and operation of more common optical storing devices, such as CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray, relying on read/write techniques based on the principles of holography. Similar to typical optical data storing devices, the first holographic memory systems were created several decades ago; however, they di ... [read more >>] | | 03 July 2008, 08:58GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| 42GB DVD Comes a Bit Too Late |  | Although most of us still rely on DVDs in order to pass information from one device to another, this procedure will soon be considered history. That’s because Blu-ray technology can now allow more data to be stored on a single disk. But maybe, just maybe, this standard still has a fighting chance, that is if industry manufacturers plan to adopt a new breed of DVDs, which has been developed by a couple of university researchers.
[ADMARK= ... [read more >>] | | 30 June 2008, 08:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Illegal DVD Factory Found in Malaysia |  | The fight against movie and software piracy has just recorded another win as the MPA along with the help of other organizations, including here the Malaysian Federation Against Copyright Theft, managed to shut down an illegal DVD facility located in Kajang, Malaysia. According to a press statement signed by the MPAA, the factory had the abilities to produce no less than seven million illegal discs per year, recording revenues of ... [read more >>] | | 09 May 2008, 03:35GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Finally, We've Got a Price Tag for Panasonic's 3rd Generation Blu-ray Player |  | Since Blu-ray has become the ultimate victor of the next-generation DVD format war, just about every major player on the consumer electronics' market has either prepared or launched something for this particular segment. And one such major name is Panasonic who has finally shed some new light on one of latest offering in this field, namely the DMP-BD50 player. And by some "light" I mean an estimated time of arrival (this spr ... [read more >>] | | 07 May 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Report: Blu-Ray Still Facing Adoption Issues |  | Despite the fact that the HD-DVD high-definition standard collapsed, and the new HD movie titles are only available in the Blu-Ray format, Sony's standard seems to have significant adoption issues among consumers.
According to a report released by Market analyst ABI Research, the Blu-Ray format has to carry another battle with the plain, old DVD standard. The company's principal analyst, Steve Wilson, claims that peo ... [read more >>] | | 22 April 2008, 10:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Self-Destructing DVD Cuts The 48-Hour Movie Marathon |  | Germany-based video company DVD-D unveiled a new optical medium that is able to store data just like a regular DVD disk, except for the fact that data mysteriously disappears after 48 hours. The new single-use DVDs are already available on the French, Italian and Scandinavian markets, and are mostly used in movie rental businesses as self-destructive storage media.
The DVD-D versatile media discs come in sealed cardboard envel ... [read more >>] | | 18 April 2008, 07:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| How Blu-ray Discs Work |  | It all started in 1982, when compact discs became commercially available. They were the first optical devices used to store data in a digital format, have typical capacities of up to 700 megabytes, or 80 minutes in audio format, and diameters between 60 to 120 millimeters. In 1997, a new optical storing medium became popular – the digital versatile disc or digital video disc; although indistinguishable to the naked eye from a com ... [read more >>] | | 17 April 2008, 09:13GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Malaysian Dogs to Sniff DVD Piracy into Oblivion |  | Malaysia doesn’t have the best reputation when it comes to respecting intellectual property rights, and the authorities are trying to take measures to change that. Two male Labradors, specially trained to sniff out the chemicals used in DVD production, have been brought from Northern Ireland and will become the world’s first permanent canine national anti-piracy unit, according to a report from the Associated Press.
Paddy and ... [read more >>] | | 04 March 2008, 05:40GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The DVD Tops the Europeans' Christmas Shopping List This Year |  | The Christmas shopping spree is in full swing as we speak and everyone's running like crazy from one mall to the next, storming (or better said, stampeding) each store in search for those perfect gifts. However, it seems that Europeans have already decided on their assortment of gifts for this year, and the DVD is topping the list of possible choices.
Thus, according to a recently-released study by Digital Entertainment ... [read more >>] | | 19 December 2007, 11:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Blu-ray Beats the Crap Out of HD DVD |  | Yes, folks, the ongoing battle between the two competing next-gen DVD formats is far from over and it seems that the scales are slowly tipping in favor of Sony's little Blu-rayed baby, as the latest figures released by the Blu-ray Disc Association show a huge gap between the two formats, although just in a specific domain, that of recorders.
Thus, according to the figures provided by market research firm GfK, it seems th ... [read more >>] | | 23 November 2007, 12:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| AVS Forum Shut Down |  | What has the world come to? The AVS Forum, probably the largest online forum on audio/visual discussion is up against a new kind of problem, one that was previously reserved for game consoles only – Fan Flame Wars. It sounds like an episode of Scooby Doo but it’s actually a good reason for everybody to take a step back and think about the really important things in life.
It all started from the two big A/V formats on the mark ... [read more >>] | | 08 November 2007, 03:57GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Amy Wino Vows to be a Boozer Forever |  | Amy Winehouse has some serious nerve – or maybe it's a delayed effect from all the serious drug-taking and boozing she's been doing lately, we'll never know. But the troubled British star is definitely one stubborn addict and now she's making it all public by releasing a DVD ironically entitled "I Told You I Was Trouble".
The extended-length DVD will feature a mixture of documentary and live gig ... [read more >>] | | 23 October 2007, 09:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| LightScribe Enabled Portable DVD-RW Drives |  | LaCie announced the launch of another line of products designed by the well known industrial designer Sam Hecht and this time we are talking about portable optical disc drives that come with the latest technologies enabled.
On the outside the new LaCie Portable DVD burning optical drives are sporting a slim and stylish design with a great focus on clean lines and with no visible feet, switches or breaks in its exterior casing. ... [read more >>] | | 20 September 2007, 04:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Asus Offers a New Blu-ray Compatible Optical Drive |  | Asus announced the launch of a new optical disc drive which is designed and aimed for users needing high performance drives that can playback high definition movies and offer a complete solution for writing optical discs. The next generation of Asus DVD writer drivers is the BC-1205PT, a multi format capable drive which is able to read and write data from multiple optical discs formats like BD-ROM, DVD±R and RW as well as CD-RW, while re ... [read more >>] | | 07 September 2007, 10:58GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Toshiba's Ultra Slim HD DVD-Writer |  | At the IFA trade show from Berlin Toshiba presented a new HD DVD-Writer which also integrates support for the most popular optical disc formats out there. Coming as a combo drive and featuring HD DVD-Writer and HD DVD Super-Multi properties the latest Toshiba optical drive unit is personal computer compatible.
The new Toshiba units are slim and extremely portable as they weigh just 165 grams once removed from the protective ca ... [read more >>] | | 03 September 2007, 11:07GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Asus Burns Faster and Better DVDs |  | Asus announced the launch of a new line of high performance optical drives which features the DRW-2014 L1T internal DVD and CD rewriter. This new internal disc burner computer hardware part also is fully compliant with the latest specifications of the LightScribe technology allowing users to select and draw their own customized labels.
Unlike most currently used optical drives the Asus DRW-2014 L1T supports high speed data tra ... [read more >>] | | 30 August 2007, 11:19GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| LG's Slim and Trendy External DVD Burners |  | LG Electronics announced the release of a new optical drive that is intended for external operation and comes packed in a slim and easily portable form. The new external optical drive comes in two versions, the simpler GSA-E50N and the LightScribe capable GSA-E50L and it is specially created for use with laptops and notebooks.
The new LG manufactured Slim Portable Super Multi format capable DVD burner is entirely powered by th ... [read more >>] | | 29 August 2007, 05:35GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| LightScribe. The What, How and Why. |  | Most computer users that are the proud possessors of an older optical burning drive have just about three options in order to label their freshly backed CDs or DVDs. First of all, there is the option of using a soft tipped marker pen and hand writing your very own label, but this option leaves the optical discs in a not too pleasant state and the labels themselves are just a symbolic name or a ordering number.
The second varia ... [read more >>] | | 27 August 2007, 10:14GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Mempile Goes for One TeraByte of Data |  | Mempile, an Israeli company that is specialized in technologies related to optical storage and the development of new optical mediums, announced the successful testing of its TeraDisc technology that is capable of storing one terabyte of data on a single and cost effective DVD-like optical medium.
One terabyte of data, 1TB for short, is the equivalent of up to 250 hours of high definition videos and Mempile demonstrated this recording t ... [read more >>] | | 23 August 2007, 10:27GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| "Baby Brainy Einsteins" Turn Your Kid Dumb |  | Now, this crap won't make your child a brainy Hawkings but on the contrary, dumb as a rock. Encourage your child to learn language from DVDs and videos like "Baby Einstein" and "Brainy Baby" and he/she will hardly manage to express himself/herself...
A new research made at the University of Washington and Seattle Children’s Hospital Research Institute has found that the over-use of such productions actually dela ... [read more >>] | | 10 August 2007, 09:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| New Sony DVD Burners |  | Sony Electronics announced the release of its next generation DVD burner that supports the dual format DVD/CD recordable drives and comes in three separate designs in order to meet the industry's fastest recording speeds.
This new series is called the 840 and it fully supports the 20X DVD±R recording speeds, being capable of burning through a 4.7GB chunk of data on a standard 16X DVD+R supported media in about five minut ... [read more >>] | | 08 August 2007, 06:14GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| No One Wants to Play with Jessica Anymore! |  | Jessica Simpson is a great actress, one of those few genuinely talented thespians who know all the tricks in the book to making a mind-blowing movie... in her head alone! She might be cute and cuddly-like, she may have the good looks and the financial power to back up all her forays into the art of cinematography, but daddy's little girl can't act to save her life. The critics and the public have spoken! No need fighting about it ... [read more >>] | | 03 August 2007, 06:28GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Sony Indirectly Answers to PGR 4 DVD Space Issues |  | PlayStation fans truly have it their way today and although Sony hasn't really announced anything new for the powerful system, confirmation that the PS3's time has come, is indeed something to make your day. According to this piece up on Evil Avatar, ... [read more >>] | | 01 August 2007, 08:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Xbox 360 - PGR 4 Limited Because of DVD |  | Here's something you never thought you'd hear during this generation of gaming hardware: the developers of Project Gotham Racing 4 are having trouble with space when coming up with the highly anticipated ... [read more >>] | | 01 August 2007, 05:29GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Denon Among the First to Roll Out a Next-Generation Blu-ray Player |  | The Denon company is an important member of the Blu-ray Disc Association, so it's no wonder that it's actively involved in the development of various equipment compatible with the next-generation DVD format promoted by Sony. And their latest announcement proves just how far this commitment really goes, as the company pushed forward the DVD-3800BDCI model, one of the first Blu-ray players to comply with the BD-ROM Profile 1 versio ... [read more >>] | | 25 July 2007, 11:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Sharp to Launch Blu-ray Player with Quick Start Feature for under $500? |  | Sharp is quite a well-known manufacturer of various electronic devices, but its expertise in the DVD and Blu-ray players' field is rather limited, at least compared to other major manufacturers. This is why the rumor that the company might actually release a Blu-ray player came as quite a surprise, especially since the source of this rumor claims that the device will provide users with a Quick Start feature, quite a first f ... [read more >>] | | 10 July 2007, 06:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| My Console Can Play DVDs?! That's Great! |  | You're going to change your perspective on how many gamers are out there, after you read this. Apparently, a study conducted by The Diffusion Group shows that 80 percent of the 2000 console owners surveyed, are aware of their systems' capabilities – mainly, DVD ... [read more >>] | | 02 July 2007, 03:13GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Buy a Blu-ray Player, Get 5 Free Movies! Even with the PlayStation3! |  | The race (well, it's an all-out war, but race sounds a lot more...fairer) between the next-generation DVD formats is far from over, each of the two sides trying to do their best in order to outmaneuver and gain a lead over the other. And the latest move in this ongoing marketing chess game has been made by the Blu-Ray Disc Association, which, together with its supporters, has just upped the ante as far as deals go and launched a new p ... [read more >>] | | 29 June 2007, 11:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| DVD-Copying Could Be Banned |  | The DVD Copy Control Association (DVD CCA) has come up with a plan of turning into reality one of the craziest ideas that ever popped into their heads. Due to the fact that currently DVD sales are pretty poor (all hail the DVD-ripping software!) and the fact that HD-DVDs and Blu-Rays will soon have the same fate, the DVD CCA is planning to release a document which will ban DVD disk copying in any type of device.
As a result, ... [read more >>] | | 25 June 2007, 05:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Blockbuster Goes Blu-ray Only, Deals Major Blow to HD DVD |  | The format war between HD DVD and Blu-ray is far from over, and every week marks yet another major development in this competition. Even if only a few days ago HD DVD supporters announced that they've got the lead in this race, it would seem that the tables h ... [read more >>] | | 18 June 2007, 01:14GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Experts Say Children Want Handhelds |  | Here are some interesting facts on how technology affects us, how the time when these processes start affecting us plays a crucial factor. The report pokes the issues of penetration of consumer electronics (CE) in kids' lives today and how this has changed since the earlier 2005 and 2006 studies, measuring device usage dynamics and trends.
The average age at which children begin using consumer electronics has declined fr ... [read more >>] | | 06 June 2007, 07:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| How Fast Can 50 Snails Get in Space? |  | Snails are famous for their "incredible" speed and they never seem to be in a hurry. Well, this time they seem to be pretty fast when it comes to getting in the outer space. It took them almost two hours to get to the International Space Station (ISS).
They have been launched on Friday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, in a Russian spacecraft. Called Progress 25, they are the work horses of the European and US space ... [read more >>] | | 14 May 2007, 02:57GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Another Pirate-'Hive' Busted: West Midlands - 800.000 DVDs |  | Just yesterday we talked about St Helens Police conducting a surprise raid resulting in the arrest of seven people, one of which had been using his house as a mini factory to make illegal copied Xbox, PlayStation2 and PC games. Today's news says practically the same thing, only the location and numbers are different: West Mislands – 800.000 ... [read more >>] | | 11 May 2007, 06:32GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| How to Convert AVI to DVD |  | DVD, also known as Digital Versatile Disc, is one of the most popular video formats used these days. The DVD media format can be used to store data or movies with high video and sound quality, the latter being called DVD-Video discs. If you have ever thought of converting your AVI movie collection to a DVD one, with high quality video and audio, then this guide is for you. All you need is ... [read more >>] | | 10 May 2007, 10:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Convert DVD-Video to AVI with Avidemux |  | Let's say you have a DVD camcorder, you've recorded some important events and now you want to convert them into AVI format. What are you going to do? The following guide will teach you how to achieve this task in a few minutes (except the conversion process, which is done automatically and takes between 30 minutes and 1 ˝ hours, depending on how fast your computer is and the video codec used). The following guide can ... [read more >>] | | 06 May 2007, 09:40GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| ConvertXtoDVD Review |  | When I’m thinking of a DVD, this common media support that in a very short period of time has spread all over the world, making the life of the CD so hard, everything related to it comes to my mind: action movies, my relative’s wedding capture, high quality video concerts, my huge collection of photos that I can take wherever I want and show it to all my friends, video console games and much more.
This useful disc that is a part of our ... [read more >>] | | 05 May 2007, 09:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Winki The Ripper Review |  | Ripping DVD movies to more compressed formats is quite an old practice. It was more popular in the past, when everyone had small hard disks and, at that time, it was more practical to store a 700MB avi file rather than a 4GB DVD image iso file. Even today, when the latest hard disks allow us to store a far more greater number of DVD images, the number of programs dedicated to ripping DVDs keep on growing exponentially. But that's not ... [read more >>] | | 25 April 2007, 08:30GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Disney's New Dual-Screen Mobile DVD System |  | Parents (especially parents of twins) can now sleep in peace during long trips knowing that Disney's new Dual-Screen Mobile DVD system makes it possible for both their kids to squint at the same movie without bumping their heads. What a breakthrough! Will this mobile DVD player make kids enjoy movies quietly from now on? Maybe, but probably not (what if you don't have twins, but triplets, eh?).
Both displays measure ... [read more >>] | | 16 April 2007, 05:20GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| ManDVD Review |  | In the last couple of years, multimedia support in Linux has evolved quite nicely. Nowadays, modern distributions provide software for playing, editing or remastering video and audio files, several cool games with complex and modern graphics have already got released and I'm sure many more will follow. At this evolving rate, it shouldn't take very long until Linux will provide at least the same level of multimedia support as Wind ... [read more >>] | | 12 April 2007, 09:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Toshiba Starts Shipping HD-A20 DVD Players |  | Bollyood and Hollywood movie lovers, take note! Toshiba has started hitting the US retailers’ shelves. Toshiba's HD-A20 joins the existing Toshiba DVD line-up which includes the entry level HD-A2 and the top of the line, HD-XA2. This expanded line of products offers enhanced functionalities of the HD DVD format and is the result of Toshiba's effort to make a smooth transition to the next level of high-definition enterta ... [read more >>] | | 12 April 2007, 03:13GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The Portable Video iPod Enlarger And DVD Player |  | Hammacher Schlemmer, a retailer of luxury goods, is selling a peculiar media player. The thing, dubbed the Portable Video iPod Enlarger and DVD Player, is mainly intended to play DVDs on the go but also to act as a video iPod “enlarger”.
You can dock a 30, 60 or 80 GB iPod video device into the back, allowing you to watch iPod videos on a 7-inch, 16:9 widescreen LCD that is 2 ˝ times larger than the iPod's scre ... [read more >>] | | 06 April 2007, 11:30GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Burning Tool for Free |  | OpenSource applications have been an intriguing subject for a long time. Who makes them, how do they make them and most of all, why they are made are the main themes of this never-ending discussion. As for every delicate situation, people are divided into three large categories: those who are pro, those who are against and those who don't care as long as it doesn't cost them money.
The first category sustain their agreement s ... [read more >>] | | 04 April 2007, 03:54GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Rip Digital Content Legally |  | Kaleidoscope is a company that manufactures home media servers, composed out of a server, a music player and a movie player. The price tag is of around $10.000 for one of these, so one must wonder why pay such a price for a multimedia center, a very powerful one nevertheless, but still it's just a multimedia center. The server has the role of storing multimedia information such as music and movies on it, and it even rips the ... [read more >>] | | 30 March 2007, 04:13GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| One TeraByte of Data Stored on an Optical Disk |  | A not so well known name in the computer industry is Israel-based Mempile company; they have proven that up to 250 hours of HD programming or one terabyte of information can be stored on a sigle, DVD-sized optical disk.
This has been achieved through their TeraDisk technology, which allowed them to record 500GB of data on a simple plastic transparent disk. Eat your heart out Blu-ray and HD-DVD, there's a new sheriff in t ... [read more >>] | | 29 March 2007, 04:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Creative's Video Blaster Editor |  | Have you ever tried video editing when you know nothing about transferring home videos to your PC? It can really give you a lot of trouble. We all know most PCs don't come with FireWire, composite or S-video connection that enables the capture of video from a camcorder, VCR or other video device. And of course you want an easy way to capture and edit video. This is where Creative's Video Blaster Editor comes in. This de ... [read more >>] | | 23 March 2007, 11:18GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
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