Warner Music preps iTunes compatible “DVD album”
We’d probably have to take our shoes off to count all the physical formats that have been released in hopes of supplanting the J-Pop indie rock CDs on our shelf, but Warner Music Group is going to give it another go.
Their new “DVD album” (not quite as exciting of a name as those SACDs [...]
WHV exits Slovakia, Czech Rep. blaming piracy, saturation
Warner Home Video will close its branches in the Czech Republic and Slovakia in October and partner with Magic Box for licensing and distributing its slate of new releases and library titles. WHV is leaving the country because the film distribution market in Eastern Europe is saturated and piracy of video content is growing, the [...]
Chinese city offers to swap fake DVDs for real
Fed up with continued piracy of DVDs and software, a Chinese city is offering retailers the chance to swap fake discs for real ones, a state newspaper said on Thursday.
For every three pirated discs handed in, a company based in the eastern city of Nanjing would hand over one real one, the China Daily said.
One [...]
Studios Set Up DVD Download-and-Burn Plans To Fail
Earlier this week, Movielink, the movie-download site that’s owned by a number of movie studios, said it had licensed technology to allow users to burn downloaded movies to DVDs, but couldn’t yet offer the service as it still needed to license some encryption software as well as get approval from the studios that their movies [...]
CinemaNow unveils download-to-burn DVD service
Online movie seller CinemaNow late on Tuesday unveiled a new service that allows customers to download a movie from the Internet and copy it onto a DVD that can be played on any standard DVD player.
The new, legal download-to-burn service marks a major step for Hollywood as its movie and television studios seek to offer [...]
A DVD That Can Store 50TB of Data?
Indian-born scientist developing coated DVD’s that can make hard disks obsolete
An Indian born scientist in the US is working on developing DVD’s which can be coated with a light -sensitive protein and can store up to 50 terabytes (about 50,000 gigabytes) of data.
Professor V Renugopalakrishnan of the Harvard Medical School in Boston has claimed to [...]
Does ‘Freedom to Read’ Apply to DVDs?
Library Board Battles County Over Right To Buy R-Rated Films. The culture wars have returned to Loudoun County’s public library system — or, more precisely, to the tidy rows of DVDs at its seven branches.
There, between episodes of “Sesame Street” and documentaries about Julia Child and the Civil War, patrons can find a collection of [...]
Rep. Berman Calls For Probe of DVD Piracy Involving Aeroflot
Rep. Howard L. Berman (D-Valley Village) on Friday called on the head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection to investigate allegations that pirated DVDs were being smuggled into Los Angeles by flight crews of the Russian airline Aeroflot.
Berman said the call was in response to a Los Angeles Times article on Sunday that detailed how [...]
DVD Decrypter – How to burn BIN, CUE, or ISO files
Now DVD Decrypter does many things, but all I’m going to discuss here is how to burn a BIN, CUE, or ISO files with this program.
The .BIN / .CUE CD image format was made popular by the CDRWin software. Afterwards many programs have started supporting or partially supporting it, including: Nero, Blindwrite, CloneCD, FireBurner. [...]
