CDs, DVDs not so immortal

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CDs and DVDs Not So Immortal After All

CDs and DVDs Not So Immortal After All 05/05/2004 01:57 PM
AP via Newsday May 5 2004 6:34PM GMT

CDs, DVDs are not immortal

CDs, DVDs are not immortal 05/06/2004 01:37 AM
globetechnology.com May 6 2004 5:30AM GMT

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May 6, 2004

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CDs May be Less Immortal than We Thought

CDs May be Less Immortal than We Thought 05/06/2004 06:57 PM

Otogi 2: Immortal Warriors Review

Otogi 2: Immortal Warriors Review 09/24/2004 10:06 PM
G4 Tech TV Sep 25 2004 1:19AM GMT

Sarbakan Brings Brutal Bug Invaders,
Immortal Teen And Lone Ninja Squirrel To
E3.

Sarbakan Brings Brutal Bug Invaders,
Immortal Teen And Lone Ninja Squirrel To
E3. 05/31/2004 01:55 PM
Quebec-Based Sarbakan is showcasing three new excting and engaging online game properties at the 2004 E3:The Bug Factor”, “Obscura” and “The Black Squirrel”. [PRWEB May 12, 2004]

CDs, DVDs: Human After All

CDs, DVDs: Human After All 05/07/2004 05:01 AM
One reason CDs and DVDs are so expensive is that they're supposed to last forever. Well, they don't. Shoddy manufacturing can spell an early demise, as can careless storage and handling.

DVDs set records

DVDs set records 01/06/2005 08:49 AM
USA Today Jan 6 2005 1:05PM GMT

How to Care for CDs and DVDs (AP)

How to Care for CDs and DVDs (AP) 05/05/2004 03:41 PM
AP - Handling tips for CDs and DVDs, including the recordable versions, from the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

Paper DVDs

Paper DVDs 04/16/2004 01:06 PM
Sony and Toppan Printing have developed DVDs consisting of 51 percent paper. Data is stored on the discs using a blue laser instead of red. The smaller wavelength of blue laser light means that 25 gigabytes of data can be packed onto each paper/polymer disk, more than twice the capacity of traditional polycarbonate plastic-based DVDs. Link

How to Care for CDs and DVDs

How to Care for CDs and DVDs 05/05/2004 06:31 PM
AP via Newsday May 5 2004 10:35PM GMT

Mr. Clean Available for DVDs

Mr. Clean Available for DVDs 04/19/2004 05:52 AM
It's a control issue -- tone down the blood or foul language with a new genre of DVD player developed by RCA and ClearPlay. Parents, or those with weak stomachs, may like it, but studios object.

What high-def will do to DVDs

What high-def will do to DVDs 06/17/2005 02:19 PM
News.bbc.co.uk - Thu Jun 9, 09:28 am GMT

The Next Generation In DVDs

The Next Generation In DVDs 04/20/2004 03:24 PM
CBS News Apr 20 2004 8:09PM GMT

Fair Use with DVDs

Fair Use with DVDs 07/08/2004 08:25 PM

NY Times: Whose DVD? A Debate Over Copies. The free copying tools are available through Internet sites that are not directly subject to American law, often because the nations that those sites call home permit individuals to copy material for their own use. People seeking such tools need only pose the question in an Internet search engine to find dozens of sites devoted to the subject, including the Afonic DVD Guides site (www .dvd-guides.com), run by Joseph Chatzimichail, a 20-year-old electrical and computer engineering student in Salonika, Greece.

Best DVDs of 2002

Best DVDs of 2002 07/31/2004 07:22 AM
G4 Tech TV Jul 31 2004 11:17AM GMT

New 'PM For Kids' DVDs/VHS

New 'PM For Kids' DVDs/VHS 07/09/2004 01:11 PM
Popular Mechanics Jul 9 2004 5:13PM GMT

Copy Your DVDs

Copy Your DVDs 07/27/2004 12:28 AM
G4 Tech TV Jul 27 2004 5:08AM GMT

Corporate DVDs at Your Fingertips

Corporate DVDs at Your Fingertips 12/15/2003 08:02 PM
Internet.com Dec 15 2003 7:08PM ET

Paper DVDs on the horizon

Paper DVDs on the horizon 04/19/2004 10:58 AM
BBC Apr 19 2004 3:45PM GMT

Two-Day DVDs a Slow Sale

Two-Day DVDs a Slow Sale 10/29/2003 12:11 AM
Disposable DVDs have been available for over a month, and a survey of stores finds the product is not flying off the shelves. Plus, environmentalists are keeping up their efforts to stop the sale of a product they call wasteful. By Katie Dean.

Kelby's Photoshop DVDs now available

Kelby's Photoshop DVDs now available 05/14/2004 03:24 PM
Scott Kelby, best-selling author and editor-in-chief of Photoshop User and Mac Design, today announced the release of two new Adobe Photoshop training DVDs...

Dashboard DVDs and Death

Dashboard DVDs and Death 07/27/2004 04:47 PM
Wired News Jul 27 2004 8:21PM GMT

Creating Stunning DVDs

Creating Stunning DVDs 08/04/2004 06:31 PM
“No other DVD authoring program in the $500 price class is capable of creating such stunning, highly creative DVDs as Apple’s DVD Studio Pro 3,” writes PC Magazine. “For video pros looking to take their productions to the next level, it’s worth a serious look.” [Aug 4]

Dust off for Imation DVDs

Dust off for Imation DVDs 01/05/2005 01:33 PM
Magnetic media maker's scratch- and smudge-resistant discs to hit stores by February.

How high-def will change DVDs

How high-def will change DVDs 02/01/2005 09:51 PM
High-definition will close the gap between cinema and home entertainment, but will also change DVD production.

Tracking down the pirate DVDs

Tracking down the pirate DVDs 07/16/2004 01:43 AM
News.bbc.co.uk - Thu Jul 15, 09:30 am GMT

HP extends recordable CDs, DVDs to Asia

HP extends recordable CDs, DVDs to Asia 05/07/2004 03:42 AM
CNET Asia May 7 2004 8:26AM GMT

New Software lets you edit DVDs

New Software lets you edit DVDs 05/19/2004 10:18 AM
DVDxDV is a new software program that transforms DVDs into digital media that can be read by a Mac just like a flash memory card from a digital camera...

DVDs obsolete in 10 years - Gates

DVDs obsolete in 10 years - Gates 07/15/2004 03:31 AM
iafrica.com Jul 15 2004 7:31AM GMT

Rental firm looks to deliver DVDs over
Net

Rental firm looks to deliver DVDs over
Net 04/26/2004 06:14 AM
ZDNet UK Apr 26 2004 9:59AM GMT

H.264 Video Codec for Next-Generation
DVDs

H.264 Video Codec for Next-Generation
DVDs 06/23/2004 10:37 AM
The DVD Forum has ratified the H.264 Advanced Video Codec for the next-generation High Definition DVD format. Jointly developed by the Moving Picture Experts Group and the International Telecommunication Union, H.264/AVC will ship in QuickTime software next year. [Jun 23]

iPods And DVDs Top Children's Wish-Lists

iPods And DVDs Top Children's Wish-Lists 08/31/2004 02:30 AM
Mobile phones, DVDs and iPods have replaced bikes, roller-skates and footballs as children's must-have items, a poll reveals today. By The Western Mail (via MyAppleMenu)

Pirated Passion DVDs seized in US

Pirated Passion DVDs seized in US 03/06/2004 02:04 AM
Copies of The Passion of the Christ are among illegal DVDs recovered by police in Philadelphia.

CDRestore copies damaged CDs, DVDs

CDRestore copies damaged CDs, DVDs 12/09/2003 10:50 AM
If you've used CDs or DVDs for any length of time, chances are you've lost some of them to scratches or other damage. SubRosaSoft.com has released CDRestore 1.0, an application designed to create image files from scratched or surface damaged data CDs and DVDs. Replicas can then be produced using any CD/DVD burning utility, such as Roxio's Toast or Apple's Disc Burner.

DVDs, drives don't mix, says government
study

DVDs, drives don't mix, says government
study 12/04/2003 09:35 PM
A study by the standards arm of the U.S. Commerce Department shows that DVDs and DVD drives are compatible a mere 85 percent of the time.

DVDs Killing the Video Stars

DVDs Killing the Video Stars 12/02/2003 03:44 PM
TheStreet.com Dec 2 2003 2:39PM ET

Making DVDs user friendly

Making DVDs user friendly 02/01/2005 10:12 PM

I have been messing around with a similar conundrum. I have a PocketPC that I drag everywhere and just got a 1Gb SDIO card that works with it. I found a product called DVD2PPC which rips DVDs to WMV files compressed to the viewed on the PocketPC. It works pretty well. Sometimes the audio track is off. But for the most part it works. and I get 5-8 movies on my PPC.

I'll be that Apple is discussing with studios about movie downloads. The iPod is the perfect platform for this. My PocketPC plays video and it won't be long before iPods do.

I guess I’m not typical.

It’s rare for me to watch a DVD at home anymore. If I’m watching TV, it’s a basketball game, something on HDNet/Movies, or one of the HD channels, or something I Tivo’d. Typically Dave Chappelle or Law & Order.

About the only time I actually place an actual DVD into a DVD player is when it’s for my daughter.

That’s not to say I don’t want to watch DVDs, or I haven’t watched DVD’s. I do, and I have.

I watched them in hotel rooms on my PC. I’ve watched them on my PC when I’m on a plane.  Mostly, and I’m sure this was my fault for not being careful, I watched half ‘till the end, the other half until they stopped playing because of a scratch.

Is there anything more irritating than a scratched DVD?

So I thought I would do something about it. I have already written about how I think hard drives will have a significant part to play in how we experience and watch video content. What I hadn’t done personally was take the time to convert DVD’s I had PURCHASED to a format that could be easily stored on my new remote control sized, 80gbs Firelight.

My plan was to take the drive, stuff it with movies, and use it to launch movies I could watch on the road.

What a pain in the ass.

I used 3 different rippers. All pretty much worked in realtime. Slow. Tedius. Didn’t rip correctly every time.  My dream of taking 20 or so movies on the road with me died a sad death halfway through the boredom of coming back and checking to see if Dodgeball was done.

Which leads to the “aren’t I the customer here moment,” we all have.

Why isn’t an AVI, DIVX, WMV, MOV or any format of computer usable video put on one of the DVD’s ? Anything but those pain in the ass VOB files. Most DVD’s have the less than 1gbs in space left.

It can be copy protected for those studios with Piraphobia (fear of piracy).  I just need the ability to copy it 3 or 4 times (don’t want to be left off when I put it on my new 250gbs mobile drive next year ).

I would even pay a premium for it…Put a sticker on the package saying this DVD has a format compatible with PC hard drives.

Better yet, you could put it online. Let me put my DVD in, it checks your website for authenticity,  I give you my demographic information, you let me download a file I can put on my hard drive.

You win, the customer wins and guess what? When it comes time to buy a DVD, and it’s a toss up between the movie that makes it easy for me, the customer, vs. the one who doesn’t care about me. Guess which one I pick ?

If no one wants me as their customer, then I do more of what I’m starting to do now. I take the movies and tv shows I record from my computer based PVR and copy them to my little harddrive (in minutes for everything), and watch them on the road instead of buying your DVD’s.

Complications lose customers. Simplification gets customers. 

Related. ..

[Blog Maverick]

China to Promote Own Alternative to
DVDs, EVD

China to Promote Own Alternative to
DVDs, EVD 11/18/2003 07:54 PM

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