The Movies by Moonlight summer film series in HemisFair Park gets started this week with “Brave,†an animated tale of an independent-minded Scottish lass who’d rather chart her own path than follow tradition.
LAS VEGAS–Seven years after the Blu-ray Disc Association announced at CES that it had completed the technical specification for the format, the Blu-ray format continues to forge ahead—and its proponents must ponder its future when 4K HDTV televisions are all the rage here at this week’s CES. The first Blu-ray player was priced at $1000 from Samsung, but you can now buy a Blu-ray player for about …
Netflix, which faced an interruption of its video streaming service on Christmas Eve, had problems again on Monday related to its DVD website.
Paul Brandenburg asked how to save a streaming video and burn it onto a DVD.
WinX DVD Ripper Platinum ($46, free feature-limited demo) does a very good job backing up and transcoding your DVD collection, including your copy-protected discs. Be aware, however, that according to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) this is both legal and illegal
Microsoft’s next Xbox console will have all sorts of bells and whistles, including Blu-ray, broadcast DVR, and—eventually—augmented-reality glasses, according to one report. Xbox World , a magazine published in the United Kingdom, has published a long feature article on what it believes Microsoft’s next console will be like, citing “industry experts and Microsoft’s own leaky boat.†The report is …
If you’ve been using MakeMKV to rip Blu-ray movies to your hard drive, you may have noticed that the resulting MKV movies can be very, very large. If you want to reduce the size of those files without manually stepping through a lengthy and rather complex demuxing, transcoding, and remuxing process—or even looking those words up—downloading RipBot264 is the order of the day
SAN FRANCISCO — Amazon.com Inc. is producing its own movies and TV programming using the consumer tracking and data crunching skills it developed while becoming the world’s largest Internet retailer.
If you saw and liked the 2011 Best Picture Oscar-winning film “The Artist,” but you’ve never seen the Golden Age classic “Singin’ in the Rain,” then you’re in for a treat. Fathom Events is pre…