27 days ago
deusx : Stupid DRM handcuffs | D'Arcy Norman dot net - "That’s me in the DVD. But because the MPAA makes software companies bend over to protect their content by baking DRM into the apps that ship with my computer, I’m prevented from doing legitimate things with my own content. Thankfully, there are
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2 month ago
Rod Begbie : You Fell Asleep Watching a DVD - I am strikingly familiar with this. [via] #
Andy Baio : You Fell Asleep Watching A DVD - [via]
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5 month ago
jonhicks : Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs - Just look at the artwork involved in the new Futurama DVD. How gorgeous is that?
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8 month ago
wearehugh : How to recreate a multi-title DVD into a single title DVD with free tools - Digital Video Forums
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8 month ago
Rod Begbie : Absolutely Everything DVD Box Set - The superb 90s sketch show Absolutely is finally getting a complete DVD release. Hurrah! #
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9 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : Hack Attack: Burn almost any video file to a playable DVD - Hack Attack: Burn almost any video file to a playable DVD: this may come in handy someday
joshua : Hack Attack: Burn almost any video file to a playable DVD - how to use dvdflick
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Greg Storey : Netflix dumps HD-DVD after seeing a "clear signal" from the industry. - Time for Toshiba to take the hint.
Rod Begbie : Netflix, Citing a Clear Signal From the Industry, Will Carry High-Def DVDs Only in Blu-ray Format - Feb 11, 2008 - Further fuel for the "HD-DVD is fucked" fire, slashed-price players and superbowl ads be damned. #
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11 month ago
Rod Begbie : Amazon.com: Toshiba HD-A3 HD DVD Player - Desperation play on Toshiba's part? They've dropped the price of their entry-level HD-DVD player to $130, which includes two movies, and a rebate form for five more. Even knowing the format is doomed, this is tempting me. #
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11 month ago
Rod Begbie : Amazon.com: Toshiba HD-A3 HD DVD Player - Desperation play on Toshiba's part? They've dropped the price of their entry-level HD-DVD player to $130, which includes two movies, and a rebate form for five more. Even knowing the format is doomed, this is tempting me. #
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11 month ago
Rod Begbie : Amazon.com: HD DVD will still win - Fantastic reading: HD-DVD fanboys in denial on Amazon discussion boards. #
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11 month ago
adamrg : Fellowship of the Ring - HD vs DVD - Looks pretty wicked.
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12 month ago
Andy Baio : On the overuse of the Trajan typeface in movie posters - the accompanying Flickr pool [via]
nelson : Trajan is the Movie Font - Type criticism can be funny!
plasticbag : Trajan is the Movie Font - Entertaining video that reveals the lack of creativity among designers working in movie posters and DVD covers. Although, you know, if people understand Trajan to mean 'movie' then why confuse them?
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15 month ago
wearehugh : Commentary: A War of Hype, and Paramount's Big Bombshell | High-Def Digest - "The truth is that both Blu-ray and HD DVD are losing the real battle... They're just losing it to different degrees."
Rod Begbie : Commentary: A War of Hype, and Paramount's Big Bombshell | High-Def Digest - "Considering the real facts of the matter, presumptions that the High-Def format war could be won by either side anytime soon were seriously misguided. The truth is that both Blu-ray and HD DVD are losing the real battle, which is to supplant DVD as the n [via] #
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16 month ago
Rod Begbie : Paramount to Drop Blu-Ray HD DVDs - New York Times - More fun FUD that will ensure that neither format "wins". [via] #
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17 month ago
jonhicks : Amazon.co.uk: Doctor Who - The Complete Series 2 Box Set: DVD: Colin Teague
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19 month ago
nelson : HD-DVD cracked again - Key revocation does not work
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19 month ago
jimray : 27 DVD's full of Alton Brown - That's what I call Good Eats
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19 month ago
Rod Begbie : EFF: 09 f9: A Legal Primer - Outline of what the current HD-DVD key legal maelstrom is all about. #
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19 month ago
plasticbag : 09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63
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19 month ago
deusx : MVI - Snakes & Arrows (DVD Album) - Showtech Merchandising - "The Rush "SNAKES & ARROWS" MVI comes in a deluxe box, and includes these 13 new songs in hi-resolution audio, the entire album in 5.1 surround sound, a video documentary on the making of the album, and more (see below)."
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20 month ago
43folders : HandBrake 0.8.5b1 Released - Adds user presets; AppleTV and PS3 support; anamorphic; chapter markers and more.
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20 month ago
Rod Begbie : Format War Soliders: Sync'd HD-DVD Purchase by Fanboys Spike Amazon Rank, Blu-Rayers Set To Retaliate - Gizmodo - A couple of hundred HD-DVD fanboys did an organized reverse-boycott, all purchasing HD-DVD discs on Amazon on the same day to try and prove... something. Not quite sure what. Really it emphasizes how lousy both formats are doing that a sales graph can b #
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21 month ago
philgyford : Sanford Meisner Master Class DVDs - This looks like it'd be good. Eight hours of Meisner teaching from the 1980s.
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