Entries tagged with “dvd” from O'Reilly Digital Media Blog

A while back, Derrick Story wondered how valuable Roxio Toast still was, given the disc-burning features built in to Mac OS X. Well, Toast hasn't grown moldy; Roxio added a bunch of features right after Derrick's post came out. I've covered two obscure but very cool audio ones: the ability to make high-resolution and surround-sound DVDs. Here's another tasty Toast...

Even though we can all "rip" our own personally purchased CDs legally and put them on our digital media players for personal use, this has not not necessarily been the case for DVDs. A high end "DVD Jukebox" product, Kaleidescape, has existed in the market since 2002, and has been in contest with the DVD Copy Control Association since...

The path from song idea to polished master recording is long and complex, so it's good to see more companies producing tutorial DVDs. Keyfax NewMedia has been in the business for a long time, driven by founder Julian Colbeck's wit and music-technology expertise. (One of Keyfax's first DVDs, for the Yamaha Motif keyboard, actually outsold the Motif itself.) I've known...

Yesterday at Macworld, I got a chance to ask DVD expert Bruce Nazarian a question that has baffled me since I started making DVDs: How the heck do you avoid the glitch when the menu music loops?

Like Vietnam or another recent war who's name I forget, the HD DVD wars linger on with no timetable for conclusion...

My local library has a surprisingly good DVD collection, but most of it is checked out when I show up. Now I reserve titles online, rip 'em to my hard drive, watch 'em at my leisure, and then delete the image. Here's how.

First venture in blog land, so I figured I'd answer the questions I get asked most: which DVD-R media is the best and where is it the cheapest?

"Finally, it's hard to minimize the importance of the DVD Forum's provisional approval for Microsoft's VC-9 technology, essentially Windows Media Video 9, along with two other technologies, H.264 and MPEG-2, as mandatory on next-generation playback devices."

I just received a press release from Robin Gross of IPJustice that Jon Johansen is being retried in Norway.

In the Norway's prosection of DeCSS developer Jon Johansen, the court found him innocent on all counts.

Will offline (physical) distribution become CHEAPER than bandwidth?

While Macintosh looks to OS X to be a turning point with both developers and everyday consumers, one must wonder why their marketing team focused on multimedia aspects that won't be there from the get-go.

Weeks after the movie industry shutdown 2600 magazine for publishing the DeCSS code, a couple of MIT students have found a way to descramble DVD's using only 7 lines of Perl.