The Most ‘Def Awards

It’s Oscar time! And since no one on the Sound & Vision staff actually belongs to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (our applications keep getting kicked back to us), we’re celebrating this past year’s best pictures our own way — by declaring which films (and TV shows) actually have the best pictures [...]

Scart Distribution Amplifier

If you ever wanted to make multiple simultaneous video copies, or even to view your video signal on multiple TV’s all at the same time then you need a distribution amplifier. This unit takes one input and routes it to five, fully buffered outputs. It uses broadcast grade video amplification IC’s to maintain picture quality [...]

Total Recut

Total Recut provides online resources and social networking opportunities for fans and creators of video recuts, remixes and mash-ups. Users can watch videos or showcase their own work in the galleries, download copyright free source material to use in their own remix projects, learn about remix culture and copyright issues, undertake instructional video tutorials and [...]

Avid editing as quickly as possible

The guide is for beginner and intermediate users who wish to learn to use Avid’s editing systems. The book is a textbook, workbook, and user manual rolled into one…The book is aimed at teaching the user so he can begin editing as quickly as possible…This clearly written book provides effective exercises throughout to help users [...]

Convert Your HD DVDs to Blu-Ray

By converting your movies to a more enduring format, you can ensure your movie collection survives the death of the machine that plays them.
The process is simple in principle but excruciating in practice, thanks to the complexity of the technology, the myriad of applications needed and the predations of an industry that doesn’t want you [...]

Movies from an ATM!

An Irish firm has developed a way for people to get films in much the same way they withdraw money from cash machines, Eamon McGrane reports. An Irish company has Hollywood in a technological spin. After years of fighting technology that has been used to pilfer movies from the internet or circumvent copy protection on [...]

Tune into YouTube on your mobile

Tech Radar
YouTube has long been available for Apple iPhone users but now there’s a version for other mobile phones too.
YouTube for Mobile can be used on any mobile phone that supports video streaming and has 3G connectivity. That covers around 100 million devices worldwide, YouTube says.
As well as enabling you to watch millions of [...]

Adobe Offers DRM for Flash Video

by Tim Siglin March 19, 2008
Adobe today announced the availability of its Flash Media Rights Management Server, a product that runs on Windows Server 2003 and Red Hat Linux and offers content protection and business rules for playback and repurposing of offline content.
The Rights Management Server is designed to sit alongside the Flash Media Streaming [...]