DRM gets a fresh face: Ultraviolet.
by
Mike
Posted July 20th, 2010 at 6:54 am
Ask any tech competent person about DRM and they'll correctly tell you it's useless -- unless of course you goal is to piss off someone and neuter their experience with legally obtained content. The image that has attached itself to DRM isn't going away. So, content creators have to get crafty every now and then. (Too bad they can't put that creativity into creating actual legitimate business models that don't fuck over consumers...) Meet the latest face in DRM: UltraViolet.
The aim of Ul...
Review: WinX DVD Ripper Platinum. 20 licenses up for grabs!
by
Mike
Posted July 11th, 2010 at 1:59 pm
Movie buffs and downright digital junkies know the importance of backups. For if one hard drive fails, a backup can mean the difference between endless tears and a simple swap of a drive, and continuing of your life. While media pundits and rights holders continually fight against consumers and deem personal backups as some how illegal, it's nice knowing that there are still ways to get the job done, and keep your content safe. I've used plenty of DVD ripping software in the past, though on m...
WinX DVD Ripper for Mac FREE through July 14th!
by
Mike
Posted July 2nd, 2010 at 7:28 am
Who doesn't like backing up their potentially thousands of dollars in DVD movies, right? With that said, Digiarty software has an awesome deal available now and running through July 14th, 2010 -- WinX DVD Ripper for Mac is FREE. Normally $39.99, this DVD ripping software is fresh off the update cycle with plenty of features to keep you happy...
Automatic updates to keep one step ahead of ever-changing copy protection standards
Direct iPhone/iPad rips
Extract audio and stills from videos
Th...
1PB (petabyte) physical discs touted by Romanian “Storex Technologies”. In other news: Physical discs are dying.
by
Mike
Posted June 7th, 2010 at 7:42 am
Digital distribution may be the way of the future, but that won't stop disc creating companies such as Storex Technologies from touting their Hyper CD technology. Hyper CD's claim to fame is the lofty 1 petabyte (1,000,000 GB) storage capacity. Indeed, 1 PB is a ton of data and could prove rather useful in certain situations. But then you have the whole issue of it being another proprietary physical format.
So is Hyper CD worth holding our breath for?
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Titanium-oxide coated discs will gobble up 25TB of data!
by
Mike
Posted May 26th, 2010 at 7:38 am
Blu-ray is the current physical format champ. At 25GB -- 100GB if you take into account those quad-layer specimens we've heard about -- Blu-ray technology is the go-to standard for people that have an almost insatiable hunger for physically transported data. Many of us nerds would handedly prefer a large flash drive, as over the course of the drives' life, a considerable amount of money will be saved. Plus, it's just so much easier to copy something to a flash drive instead of a Blu-ray.
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DRM at its finest: New Avatar DRM causing playback woes on Blu-ray players. Only legal purchases affected.
by
Mike
Posted April 23rd, 2010 at 9:40 am
It never ceases to amaze me how uterly retarded, stupid, and incompetent the movie studios and "the old Hollywood" in general really are.
Todays fluster cluck of DRM spotlight features Avatar and the unplayable disc. I'm seeing reports all over the web (Consumerist in particular) of new Avatar customers unwrapping their new gift only to find it unplayable in their Blu-ray players. Effective DRM, huh?
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Netflix continues screwing over customers with delayed new-release rentals compliments of Fox and Universal…
by
Mike
Posted April 12th, 2010 at 1:27 pm
Like renting new releases via Netflix soon after they're released? Well, now you'll have to either (A) find a new similar service or (B) start pirating that crap because Netflix just made it harder to enjoy the service you pay for. With the help of Fox and Universal, delaying new movie rentals for 28 days after release in hopes of increased physical media sales is the sole motivation behind this move. According to the trio, it's a "win-win" for everyone, ultimately bringing lower prices.
Fo...
Quite possibly the dumbest thing(s) I’ve ever seen: “Gangsta Gadgets”.
by
Mike
Posted March 2nd, 2010 at 10:47 am
If you love blowing money on stupid gadgets, I've got a few things that will be right up your alley. Piggy backing on the apparently popular "Gangsta Lifestyle", "Gangsta Gadgets" look to bring a little bit of the street into a geeky style with such things as shoes with speakers and DVD players, Gun remote controls, and thonged mice Gangsta Gadgets has it all. To be fair, I'm not knocking the designer of said concepts, Kristin Kerby as I am more-so knocking the ideology.
Humans already k...
Netflix CEO sealing his companies fate: “….iPhone/iPad streaming not a priority…”
by
Dirk
Posted January 29th, 2010 at 1:07 pm
Normally I'm not one to tell of impending doomsday tales and other nonsense. It more often than not ends up being nothing buy hype and fear mongering. But the type of doomsday I'm talking about today isn't for the human race. Instead, it's about Netflix.
Netflix has been a widly popular movie rental service for many years now. While other traditional brick and mortar stores such as Blockbuster have been having red ink stained year after red ink stained year, Netflix has somehow maintained...
When 50GB isn’t good enough: 67GB Blu-ray discs coming soon.
by
Mike
Posted January 4th, 2010 at 2:44 pm
If we were to add up every memory, every recollection good or bad, we would end up with terabytes if not petabytes of data. Of course, actually putting a solid number on a humans lifelong memories is near impossible. However, if you find yourself using Blu-rays to document each and every one of those moments or simply torrent legally download tons of stuff, those 50GB dual layer Blu-rays are no doubt bouncing off their limit.
For when 50GB isn't enough, you'll soon be able to reach for that...
Amazon’s “Disc + On Demand” gives you physical movie and digital stream for one reasonable price.
by
Mike
Posted December 10th, 2009 at 12:24 pm
Attention all big media exec's and content owners: This is how you need to continue conducting business....
The digital hipsters and modern age, forward thinking individuals have come under fire the last several years from big media corporations and content owners for their disdain for physical products and embracing of digital counterparts. Going the digital route means companies shouldn't be charging the same due to much lower distribution costs and practically non-existent shipping costs....
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