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DVD Copying Is On The Rise
Posted 07/13/2008 at 09:24:40am
Think About it, The Movie Industry Makes back most if not all of the money from Theaters ticket sales. The movie studios have started a new feature for DVDs that they call "Digital Copy". Digital Copy is a MP4 version on the Disc; you can copy it to your iPod with no problems. It does save allot of time encoding.
As for the transition from VHS to DVD I can understand the price difference, because DVDs had far superior Quality. But the transition from DVD to Blu-ray isn't going to satisfy the price. One it is too expensive. Two, Sony is stupid because if I don't have an HDTV why would I buy Blu-ray? The elderly have DVD players, because it isn’t HD. They aren’t going to buy a $1,000+ HDTV and a $500 Blu-Ray Player, with their only income from social security. So if the blu-ray sales aren't going well, it’s not because no one likes it. It is because not everyone has a HDTV.
As for the Rental DVD coping, I do it. Why? Because I am already paying something for it. People do it all of the time. I get some Pre Release DVDs from my uncle, and copy them as well. The whole thing is why I should have to pay $40 a movie if I am going to watch it once or twice.
Add RAM, Lose Your Display?
Posted 07/09/2008 at 09:42:40pm
I had the same problem, but the what i did to solve it was swaping the memory banks. i had two slots, slot one had 256MB DDR2 and slot 2 had nothing. when i added a 1GB DDR2 stick to the slot 2, the screen went Blank when Booting up. i Swaped the memory to have in slot 1 (1GB) and slot 2 (256MB). It seams that you have to put the higher memory Size in Slot 1. Note: ram added was the same Clock Speed.
Dell Allegedly Colludes with RIAA, Stereo Mix Disabled without Forewarning
Posted 07/09/2008 at 09:33:19pm
I have a HP Pavilion DV 9000t and With Vista. I had to manualy re-enable mine.
right click Sound icon, then go to recording Devices. then right click the blank area, select "show disabled devices" then you will See "WaveOut Mix", right click it and select Enable. There you go,
Kiss My * RIAA, The greatest idea in the world, Lets Sue Our Customers!