http://www.dvd-software.info/blog/ en-us Copyright 2006 Fri, 14 Jul 2006 12:04:28 +0100 Sat, 22 Jul 2006 14:47:42 +0100 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.01D http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss The explosion in online video-sharing sites, where clips of any nature can be easily uploaded for the world to see, has become the latest challenge for parents trying to protect their children and for Web sites coping with obscene submittals.... http://www.dvd-software.info/blog/archives/2006/07/_videosharing_s.html http://www.dvd-software.info/blog/archives/2006/07/_videosharing_s.html Industry News Fri, 14 Jul 2006 12:04:28 +0100 Finally, Microsoft wants to get a share on portable music device which is now dominated by Apple's iPod. With the help of its popular Windows Media Player and MSN music service, Microsoft is very likely to gain a relative share... http://www.dvd-software.info/blog/archives/2006/07/microsoft_devel.html http://www.dvd-software.info/blog/archives/2006/07/microsoft_devel.html Non-DVD Tech News Thu, 13 Jul 2006 09:08:29 +0100 PC World review on internal and external DVD drives and made a top 5 list: Top 5 Internal DVD Drives Top 5 External Drives... http://www.dvd-software.info/blog/archives/2006/01/top_5_internal.html http://www.dvd-software.info/blog/archives/2006/01/top_5_internal.html DVD Articles Thu, 26 Jan 2006 03:27:45 +0100 Bob and Harvey Weinstein today announced that their newly formed studio, The Weinstein Company (TWC), has reached an agreement with Toshiba to support the HD DVD format. The decision to support HD DVD was based on several factors, including; proven... http://www.dvd-software.info/blog/archives/2006/01/the_weinstein_c.html http://www.dvd-software.info/blog/archives/2006/01/the_weinstein_c.html Industry News Thu, 26 Jan 2006 03:23:37 +0100 The world's biggest retailer is offering a DVD player that slices out potentially offensive content from movies, such as nudity, violence and foul language. The device, available at Wal-Mart for about $70, merges video-editing technology developed by ClearPlay with an... http://www.dvd-software.info/blog/archives/2005/12/vd_player_filte.html http://www.dvd-software.info/blog/archives/2005/12/vd_player_filte.html Industry News Sun, 11 Dec 2005 17:14:47 +0100 Sony Pictures caused a bit of a stir in the high-def world the other day when it announced the first full-length film to be authored and encoded on a Blu-ray Disc, Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle, was compressed using MPEG-2, the... http://www.dvd-software.info/blog/archives/2005/12/whatas_in_a_cod.html http://www.dvd-software.info/blog/archives/2005/12/whatas_in_a_cod.html Industry News Sun, 11 Dec 2005 17:03:43 +0100 DAD Deutscher Adressdienst GmbH sent many spam mails to people who have DE domains, the mail looks very like from the official DE domain management organization. If you are not careful enough, you will very probably sign the mail. Actually... http://www.dvd-software.info/blog/archives/2005/09/besinnliche_wei.html http://www.dvd-software.info/blog/archives/2005/09/besinnliche_wei.html Internet Sun, 18 Sep 2005 23:18:29 +0100 Japan's Hitachi Ltd. on Wednesday unveiled the world's first hard disk drive/DVD recorder that can store one terabyte of data, or enough to record about 128 hours of high-definition digital broadcasting. Hitachi, Japan's largest electronics conglomerate, is still a relatively... http://www.dvd-software.info/blog/archives/2005/08/hitachi_unveils.html http://www.dvd-software.info/blog/archives/2005/08/hitachi_unveils.html Industry News Wed, 24 Aug 2005 21:12:02 +0100 Microsoft and Toshiba will work even more closely on high-definition and interactive next-generation DVD formats, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates announced in Tokyo Monday. Gates stopped short of saying anything specific, including a commitment to use Toshiba's HD DVD format in... http://www.dvd-software.info/blog/archives/2005/07/microsoft_toshi.html http://www.dvd-software.info/blog/archives/2005/07/microsoft_toshi.html Industry News Wed, 06 Jul 2005 14:52:23 +0100 The chances of a compromise in the high-def DVD battle took a turn for the worse Tuesday. In a surprise announcement, Toshiba, the company behind the HD DVD format that has been adopted by Paramount, Universal and Warner, revealed two... http://www.dvd-software.info/blog/archives/2005/05/_hd_dvd_surpris.html http://www.dvd-software.info/blog/archives/2005/05/_hd_dvd_surpris.html Industry News Sat, 14 May 2005 01:56:49 +0100 Blu-ray Disc developer Sony once again signaled a willingness to compromise with the rival HD DVD camp last week, even as both sides pushed forward with their independent launch plans. In an interview with the news agency Reuters during Sony's... http://www.dvd-software.info/blog/archives/2005/04/_reading_highde.html http://www.dvd-software.info/blog/archives/2005/04/_reading_highde.html Industry News Mon, 25 Apr 2005 22:57:45 +0100 Talks for unified format possible Signs of a recent thaw between leaders of the rival high-definition hardware camps are rekindling hopes in Hollywood that a single, unified disc standard could still emerge and avert a full-scale format war in the... http://www.dvd-software.info/blog/archives/2005/04/_hope_rrekindle.html http://www.dvd-software.info/blog/archives/2005/04/_hope_rrekindle.html Industry News Tue, 12 Apr 2005 06:37:58 +0100 Top exec says the two competing formats may come together. After more than a year of touting Blu-ray Disc as the best technology to replace DVD for storing high-definition video, a top executive at Sony, one of Blu-ray's major backers,... http://www.dvd-software.info/blog/archives/2005/03/sony_may_unite.html http://www.dvd-software.info/blog/archives/2005/03/sony_may_unite.html Industry News Fri, 25 Mar 2005 04:01:57 +0100 TV's top-rated program for five seasons in the '80s--The Cosby Show--is coming to DVD on Aug. 2. Just three weeks after striking a deal with Anchor Bay Entertainment to release Roseanne and 3rd Rock From the Sun on DVD, Carsey-Werner... http://www.dvd-software.info/blog/archives/2005/03/cosby_different.html http://www.dvd-software.info/blog/archives/2005/03/cosby_different.html Industry News Thu, 24 Mar 2005 23:17:09 +0100 New drives, discs, and recorders should be hitting stores later this year. Consumers can look forward to a new range of high-speed rewritable and double-layer discs, recorders, and drives hitting stores in the second quarter of the year, members of... http://www.dvd-software.info/blog/archives/2005/03/dvdrw_will_hit.html http://www.dvd-software.info/blog/archives/2005/03/dvdrw_will_hit.html Industry News Sat, 12 Mar 2005 03:28:15 +0100