Category: Cinema
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Sony PS3 and HDCP: It’s a mess
We already talked about it here at length: Devices willing to handle High Definition (HD) video have to (or will have to) be all HDCP-compatible in order to be able to display anything. Recent Christmas holiday season sales will probably soon appear as somewhat lacking in this section (most of the HD-Ready TV sets don’t…
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AquaGallery
The AquaGallery is a little graphic experiment about aquatic forms and how to draw them in video. Enjoy!
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HD-DVD: First pirated copy on BitTorrent
It seems that the previous news about HD-DVD copy protection being broken are true since, this week, BitTorrent users started to see an unprotected copy of Serenity (a 2006 Science Fiction movie) flowing on the P2P network.
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ThePirateBay wants to buy Sealand
Last Summer, you read the saga of The Pirate bay, Swedish Bittorrent tracker that was raided by the local police force upon request/complaint of the music industry majors (there is indeed a large number of links to pirated music and video on http://www.thepiratebay.org/). But after moving quickly to Netherlands, the server came back to Sweeden…
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Happy Birthday HAL-9000!
Yes! The computer from “2001, A space Odyssey” (the book from Arthur C. Clarke and the movie from Stanley Kubrick) was offically born (first powered) on 12th January 1992. So, it is exactly 15-year old today. Happy birthday HAL-9000! There, HAL-9000 is an Artificial Intelligence computer (the AI word was common then) that takes its…
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HD vs DVD comparison
So, you are a fan of cinema and movies. So, you know that the first High-Definition (HD) movies are arriving and that manufacturers start delivering devices able to brighten your shiny eyes. But is it worth it? If you go to a mall and enter a video equipment shop, the sales people will insist that…
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Best posts of 2006
It is now the time to look back at the year 2006 and to check what you really liked in the Roumazeilles.net web site. So, here are the posts viewed the most in the past year. Is it a surprise? Canon 40D crushes 30D prices, at least, that was the rumour. But the prices went…
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Slow motion hi-speed movie compilation
Certainly not very original (hi-speed cameras have been able to film very fast phenomenons for years), but they are still very impressive images: http://www.youtube.com/v/MX6aerxQPOs
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How to crack HD DVD?
I was preparing a small post to talk about what I was envisonning as the future of anti-piracy measures included in HD DVD and BluRay DVD. According to me, there were two possible angles of attack: Break the AAS coding on the disc itself. Use the weaknesses of the HDCP protocol that is a requirement…