Archive for September, 2007

The Kingdom: Movie Review

Matt article, brought to you using rss feeds. I found it informative and I think you will too. Here's some of the article Weekend Movie Box Office Earnings Round-up: Sept 28 - 30, 2007; Indiana Jones 4: Indy Uncovers His Next Title; Weekend Movie Box Office Earnings Round-up: August 24 - 26, 2007; Weekend Movie Box Office Earnings Round-up: Aug 31 - Sept 2 …

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Hollywood ‘DVD bonanza’ ?

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The US box office, ‘rebounded in 2006 to finish the year at $9.49 billion in revenues compared to $8.99 billion in 2005 - a 5.5% increase from the previous year, with 1.45 billion movie tickets sold in the US, ending a three-year …

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New Movie Releases on DVD: Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Matt article, brought to you using rss feeds. I found it informative and I think you will too. Here's some of the article New Releases on DVD: Tuesday, September 4, 2007; Weekend Movie Box Office Earnings Round-up: Sept 21 - 23, 2007; Weekend Movie Box Office Earnings Round-up: September 7 - 9, 2007; Weekend Movie Box Office Earnings Round-up: Aug 31 …

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New games this week: Bratz the Movie edition

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So, it’s a pretty slow week for new releases. You’ve got Skate dropping on the PS3, that Jackass game is finally coming out on PS2, and Bungie has a sci-fi first-person shooter named Halo 3. We don’t know how they slipped the first two …

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Matt article, brought to you using rss feeds. I found it informative and I think you will too. Here's some of the article Here they are, your box office movie earnings for this weekend: September 21 - 23, 2007. If you missed any of the background on the new releases check out our Weekend Movie Preview with trailers and details. Box office domestic earnings …

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Matt article, brought to you using rss feeds. I found it informative and I think you will too. Here's some of the article Weekend Movie Box Office Earnings Round-up: June 1 - 3, 2007; Weekend Movie Box Office Earnings Round-up: Aug 31 - Sept 2, 2007; Weekend Movie Box Office Earnings Round-up: September 7 - 9, 2007; Weekend Movie Box Office Earnings …

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admin article, brought to you using rss feeds. I found it informative and I think you will too. Here's some of the article In another slow weekend at the box office, the new releases managed only meagre earnings, with Jodie Foster and “The Brave One” taking the top spot with $13.5 million, while Billy Bob Thornton had a lukewarm reception with the comedy …

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Matt article, brought to you using rss feeds. I found it informative and I think you will too. Here's some of the article Weekend Movie Box Office Earnings Round-up: May 11 - May 13, 2007; Contest: New Winner & Next Round Is Open; Weekend Movie Box Office Earnings Round-up: Aug 31 - Sept 2, 2007; Contest: New Winner & Next Round Is Open; Weekend Movie Box …

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Free Movie Downloads

Freebies delight many of us and computer users are lucky to be able to download free movies from the Internet. There are several hundred sites advertising downloads of free movies but some are in the business peddling illegal fare. The trend to download free movies has also irked movie studios that fear a Napster-like piracy of music and movies via the Internet.

The free movies available online are usually those in the public domain because their copyright has not been renewed. The latest full-length movies are seldom free and they require a small fee sometimes charged as membership or shipping or mailing fee by some companies. If a recent movie is completely free, most often the transaction can get you into legal trouble.

The websites ibiblio.org and archive.org have free movie downloads. These sites have a collection of public domain movies. You can even get full-length movies from the 1930s and 40s such as the Three Stooges. It is legal to download these movies because the copyright has expired and they are now in the public domain.

The major movie studios are worried about this trend of free movie down loads. They see a future scenario of movie piracy similar to the music piracy boom of a few years ago. New technology makes it more difficult to put free movies on the Internet. Microsoft is planning a new operating system that will have strong anti-movie piracy protection.

The software is being developed in consultation with movie industry. The studios are looking at controlling the movie downloading market. With broadband speeds, Downloading a movie may become as common as downloading a song. A new alternative is to rent movies online for a small fee.

The movie download business is still in its infancy and faces many hurdles. For one, most people prefer to watch a movie on a television screen and not on a computer. Also, the hard drive of a P.C. can store only a few movies.

Downloading a movie from the Internet requires the following items. First, there must be a 56K modem or a broadband connection, 64 MB of RAM, Windows (95,98, ME, 2000, XP, Linux) and a movie download player like Quick Time. If all these components are present, you can play videos by download or stream. Movies should start playing within a minute or two once you select a link to the page that supports your modem speed.

It is not at all a tall order to expect the movie industry to be completely transformed by the free download business just like when the iPod hit the music scene. A way will surely emerge for the present technology to shed its defects and to bring out a high-quality product.

DVD Rip

DVD Burning with DVD Decrypter

This guide shows you a method to use to burn a folder to DVD using Folder2Iso and DVD Decrypter. DVD Decrypter can burn ISO images but not DVD folders. However using a simple tool called Folder2Iso you can convert a folder to an ISO image in very little time which you can then burn with DVD Decrypter. So why bother with this method? Well DVD Decrypter is completely free and so is Folder2Iso so it's a way to burn a DVD for free. If you would rather use a program to burn the files directly and don't mind paying for it, then I suggest Nero Burning Rom, which is probably the best burning suite available.

Introduction & Requirements

Folder2Iso - Needed to make an ISO image from a folder. DVD Decrypter - We will use this excellent freeware DVD ripper to burn the ISO image to a DVDR.

You will need enough space for your ISO image. If you have a 4.36GB folder, then you are going to have a 4.36GB ISO image.

Folder2ISO Interface

Folder2Iso is a very simple program to use. All you really have to do is hit the Select Folder button and choose your folder that contains your DVD folders (make sure you read below to make sure you do it properly) and select an output directory and filename. Then simply clicking Generate Iso will begin the building process.

Folder2Iso - Select Input Folder

While this sounds like an extremely easy task, you have to remember that simply selecting the folder that contains the DVD files (.vob, .ifo, .bup etc...) WILL NOT WORK!! On a DVD, for compliancy issues you need an AUDIO_TS folder and a VIDEO_TS folder. The AUDIO_TS folder is usually empty but the VIDEO_TS folder must contain all you DVD files. So copy all your DVD files into a folder and call it VIDEO_TS. Create a new folder called DVD or something and put the VIDEO_TS folder into it. Then create an empty folder called AUDIO_TS.

Now click the Select Folder button and browse for your DVD folder. Make sure that when you find the DVD folder, Click It. If you do not click it, then the folder before it will be selected. As you can see in the pic, my folder is selected and covered in blue. Make sure yours looks the exact same and then click OK.

Folder2Iso - Select Output Folder and File

Now click the Select Output button and browse to a folder to save the file. Give it a filename and then click Save. Now you can also give the DVD a volume label. I have just called mine DVD as you can see but it does not really matter what you choose here as your option.

Folder2Iso - Generate ISO

When you click the Generate ISO button, it will begin the process immediately. It will not ask you to confirm beforehand so make sure that your settings are OK. The progress bar will indicate the status of the process. The amount of time it takes depends on the size of the ISO image. Now once it has finished we are ready to use DVD Decrypter to burn.

Launch DVD Decrypter and select ISO Write

DVD Decrypter is primarily used to rip DVDs. It can rip all the DVD files or just one set of them or it can rip them all as an ISO image. These three options are changeable modes in DVD Decrypter. File mode will allow you to rip whatever files you want from the list (usually all). IFO mode allows you to select an IFO and rip all the DVD files associated with it. However ISO has two separate modes.

ISO Read will allow you to rip the entire DVD to an ISO image and ISO Write (which is what we need) will allow you to burn an ISO image to a blank DVDR as long as it is not too big. To select ISO Write, either click Mode --> ISO --> Write or simply hit the W key on your keyboard.

Select Source, Output Target and Write Speed

Now we will do this in order. To select your Source file (dvd.iso in my case) click the tiny folder icon under source. Now browse to the folder you saved the ISO file into with Folder2Iso and select it, then click Open. Now it should fill in in the source field and some information on its label and overall size will appear under source.

Now you have to select your DVD writer (Destination). If you have any virtual drives running (from Alcohol or Daemon Tools) then make sure that they aren't selected by mistake. Test Mode will test to see if it will burn properly, if you are a little low on media this might be a useful option to select. Verify will verify the written data afterwards. Both options are entirely up to you.

Now all that is left is to select your Write Speed. Make sure you don't pick an option that is faster than your media is capable of. If unsure, MAX should be an OK selection but if you are still paranoid then check out the media information that's right over the Write Speed settings. In my example picture, we see that Max Supported Write Speed is 2x so I have went right ahead and selected it.

Burn the DVD

Now all that's left to do is to burn the DVD. Click the big button that show's a HDD an arrow and a DVD disc and the burn should begin after a few moment. You have the option once again to select Verify after write. There is also the option to delete the original ISO when finished and the option to have your computer automatically shutdown when the process is finished.

So that's pretty much it. The time the burning process will take depends on your computer, burn speed and DVD burner but in most cases it shouldn't take too long. Once the image is written you can go ahead and test out your DVD.

Finally

Now you should have been able to understand the guide enough to burn a DVD folder properly with DVD Decrypter.

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Weekend Movie Box Office Earnings Round-up: Aug 31 - Sept 2, 2007; Weekend Movie Box Office Earnings Round-up: June 1 - 3, 2007; Weekend Movie Box Office Round-Up: March 23-25; Weekend Movie Box Office Earnings Round-up: July 13 - 15, …

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