Category: Cinema
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CPU performance decoding HD-video
ArsTechnica has a very interesting article showing how nVidia and AMD-ATI show different performance while decoding High-Def video. There is no clear winner. It all depends on the type of video applied.
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Masai Mara Safari Camp
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Free video players for the PC
When you want to play video on your PC you often end up being chased by error messages about missing codecs or similar tough configuration issues. Initially, we saw some people bundling as many Codecs as possible in freely downloadable packs that where then distributed to the Internet. However, most of them where essentially a…
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Eleanor Rigby
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No DRM is good for the media business
Or so it seems from the more recent news I received through different channels these days. First, BluRay BD+ copy protection and DRM system appears to have been cracked. In the latest revision of AnyDVD (a quite well known DVD copying software), there is now an option to handle BD+. It means that even the…
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Star War, the backstroke of the West
What happens when you translate English to Chinese to English? This is the question that should have been asked before translating the subtitles to Star Wars, the revenge of the Sith (or is it Star War, the backstroke of the West?) It’s so bad, that it may have been good to store it under “culture”.…
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Darth Vador privacy breached
We knew already all about Darth Vador youth. But his private life was staying out of reach of even the most courageous paparazzis. This is no longer the case, thanks to Esteban Diacono.
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Blu-Ray bad DRM scheme
The very first discs for BluRay+ (BluRay discs with BD+ newest DRM technology) arrived: Rise of the Silver Surfer and The Day After Tomorrow. Unfortunately, these discs are nearly useless because of the DRM scheme used to protect them. For the first time, they use a virtual machine technology that allows to load code at…
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Mimas or the Death Star
Maybe the deep space Mother Nature has been copying from the Star Wars movies when it created Mimas, one of Jupiter’s satellites. Mimas in front of Jupiter’s rings Via Neatorama.