Featured Freeware: FormatFactory could be the last converter you’ll need
Friday, den 25. July 2008Whether you’re looking to change a video format to save space or because you lack a necessary codec, the freeware FormatFactory could be the last converter you’ll need. It’s not perfect, but it handles 12 types of video formats, six audio types, eight image formats, and DVD/ISO conversions with speed and accuracy.
The interface [...]
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Featured Windows Download: DVD Catalyst Rips DVDs to Friendly Formats in One Click
Monday, den 21. July 2008
Windows only: Free application DVD Catalyst Free rips videos from DVDs to device-friendly formats for your iPod, iPhone, PSP, PS3, Xbox, smartphone, and more in one simple click. Normally we prefer previously mentioned HandBrake for this job, but DVD Catalyst Free is much friendlier if a quick and simple [...]
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Modern Feed serves up the ultimate Web TV surfing tool | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone
Tuesday, den 8. April 2008
Modern Feed is a smart product, taking hosted video programming from a variety of sources and consolidating it into a single directory that’s curated by human beings. The entire experience revolves around a small navigator that sits atop your browser in its own frame. It lets you browse around playlists, search for your favorite shows, and [...]
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FairUse Wizard - Easy DVD Ripping for FREE. Just for a limited time.
Sunday, den 16. March 2008FairUse Wizard has been one of my favorite DVD archiving applications for a long time. The application makes ripping DVDs almost as easy as ripping CDs. You just pop in a disc, decide where to save it, and FairUse Wizard will do all the heavy lifting, ripping and compressing your video using the DiVX, [...]
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Xbox Live Increases Video Library
Friday, den 29. February 2008
Watch out, Netflix and pay-per-view: You have some serious competition from the Xbox 360. Microsoft is reporting that video-on-demand monthly sales have been doubling month over month and are up more than 70 percent since last September. More important for videophiles is that much of the content available is high-definition, and the Xbox Live Marketplace [...]
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Browse and Play Your Ripped DVDs with DVD Play
Tuesday, den 26. February 2008
Windows only: Browse and play the DVDs you’ve ripped to your hard drive using DVD Rip with freeware application DVD Play. Just point DVD Play to the folder DVD Rip is saving your backed up DVDs to, and DVD Play displays them with thumbnails you can browse. Similar to how DVD Rip is a companion [...]
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Zune survey points to video downloads
Monday, den 25. February 2008
Apparently, video is all the rage these days. Just ask the folks who received a survey from Microsoft about services which may or may not be coming to the Zune. It’s possible your heart might skip a beat when you read questions like, "I would rather download a movies from an online service than buy [...]
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Exclusive Lifehacker Download: DVD Rip Automates One-Click DVD Ripping
Wednesday, den 13. February 2008
Windows only: Rip and back up any DVD to your hard drive with DVD Rip, a freeware Windows application that automates the entire DVD-to-hard-drive backup process. All you need to do is insert your DVD, run DVD Rip, and let it take care of the rest. Why? A while [...]
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Windows Media Center Pocket Remote | Sarah In Tampa | Channel 10
Tuesday, den 12. February 2008
Niveus Pocket Remote 2.0 is remote control software for your Windows Media Center that you can use from your PDA or Smartphone. With the Pocket Remote, you use a virtual on-screen remote control to access any Vista Media Center PC on your network to play music, videos, DVDs, or even internet radio stations. If you’re [...]
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Featured Windows Download: Stream Netflix "Watch Now" Movies, Manage Queue in Media Center with MyNetflix
Monday, den 11. February 2008
Windows only: Manage your Netflix Queue and stream Watch Now videos directly through Windows Media Center with freeware Media Center plug-in MyNetflix. Just install, provide it with your credentials, and voilà—you can tackle all your Netflix management from the comfort of your couch. Probably the most exciting feature of [...]
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Media Center Plug-In: Internet TV
Friday, den 8. February 2008
MiraWorldTV is a free plug-in for Windows Media Center that lets you to stream Internet TV from around the world straight to your Windows Media Center PC or TV. The plug-in, which works on Vista Ultimate or Vista Premium, provides thousands of mainstream channels built into the app and its database is updated frequently. The [...]
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Stream video to Xbox 360 with Winamp Remote and Windows Media Player
Saturday, den 5. January 2008
Microsoft recently added support for Divx and Xvid video to the Xbox 360 via a Dashboard update. I already knew how to stream music to my Xbox 360, but had never tried video. In this article I’ll describe a couple of applications that allowed me to stream video content to my Xbox 360.
I successfully streamed [...]
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Upgrades: TiVo Now With 2 Terabytes of Storage (Unofficially)
Monday, den 10. December 2007
TiVo chop shop WeaKnees is offering the biggest Series 3 TiVo they can muster. Cramming a 1TB drive internally along with an external 1TB eSATA, they’re offering ready-to-run TiVos with a whopping 2TB of storage space, or enough for 292 hours of HD programming. But when you have enough storage for well over 100 HD [...]
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High Definition Video Coming to Hulu and a PC Near You, Samples Available
Wednesday, den 5. December 2007Hulu, the joint online video venture between NBC and News Corp, has given private beta testers a sneak peak at the high definition video that should soon be available on the net more ubiquitously now that Flash supports the H.264 video codec.
Hulu currently provides only nine trailers in high definition as a sampler, including ones [...]
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Xbox 360 DivX/XviD Playback Tested (Verdict: It’s Almost Perfect)
Tuesday, den 4. December 2007
The Xbox 360 supports DivX and XviD as of today, which may make some of you with big file collections (like us) as giddy as a kid in store with puppies made of candy. We threw our entire collection of movies, TV shows and random clips at it and found that the 360 can play [...]
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Ricavision kicks out VAVE100 universal MCE / SideShow remote - Engadget
Sunday, den 2. December 2007
Following up on the RICA 100 that Ricavision unveiled in May is the VAVE100, which doesn’t deviate too far from its past siblings in the design department, but does offer up a 2.4-inch QVGA LCD, a shiny green MCE button and SideShow functionality. As we’d expect, this thing is a Class 1 (~50 meters promised) [...]
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TiVo coming to PC via Nero software - Engadget
Wednesday, den 28. November 2007
TiVo has just announced an agreement with multimedia software provider Nero AG that will bring its familiar interface and feature set to the PC. According to the joint announcement made today, Nero will embed the TiVo experience in its next generation of software, allowing the millions of us who rely on USB dongles for our [...]
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Black Friday: 10 Movies and HD DVD Player for $199 at Amazon
Wednesday, den 21. November 2007
God bless the Black Friday, as the format war keeps raging on thanks to it: Amazon will give you ten movies for free when you buy the $199 Toshiba HD-A3 HD DVD player (or the HD-A30 or the HD-A35.) And unlike some other offers with dreadful title selection, there’s good stuff to choose from in [...]
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Sony selling the ATI TV Wonder CableCARD tuner all by its lonesome - Engadget
Thursday, den 25. October 2007Although Vista Media Center supports up to four CableCARDs, we haven’t actually seen the required ATI TV Wonder breakout box for sale by itself yet — it usually only comes bundled with a CableLABS-certified Vista Media Center PC. (In fact, from what we hear, OEMs are strictly forbidden from selling them without a PC.) It [...]
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