But here's the real rub: standard, first-generation DVD-video players--the ones on store shelves today--won't play Divx discs.
Considering all the hype and corporate infighting surrounding DVD, we couldn't help but wonder: Is DVD-video all it's cracked up to be?
So if you pop in a DVD "infected" with Protect DVD-Video, it can't be read by Windows Media Player, Media Center Edition, or any DirectShow-based software, thanks to a Universal Disc Format that tricks your machine into believing that the IFO file is zero bytes long.
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Extras: Power sliding moonroof, rear sonar system, Bose Premium Audio System, Memory System, drivers seat power lumbar support, power tilt, aluminum alloy wheels with all season tires, sport-tuned suspension, viscous limited-slip differential, sport front fascia, Infiniti hard drive nav system, XM NavTraffic, Zagat survey restaurant reviews, DVD-video playback, Infiniti Voice Recognition.
Pegasus' patent-pending device allows consumers to wirelessly stream DVD-quality video content from the Internet in real-time to a TV elsewhere in their house.
Everything's in there: MP3 player with stereo speakers, a 5-megapixel camera, DVD-quality video, GPS maps, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, high-speed cellular, spreadsheets, e-mail.
The IceTouch (YP-H1), featuring the world's first 2-inch, full color, transparent Active Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diode (AMOLED) touch-screen display, functions as a DVD-quality video player, studio quality audio player, an ultra-portable photo album, an FM radio and even a portable storage device.
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Last week, it unveiled what it considers to be its most exciting product yet, a device that allows consumers to wirelessly stream DVD-quality video from a computer or a camera to any television in their home.
Pioneer will launch two planned products -- combined DVD Video and DVD Audio players -- as scheduled in late December and offer customers a free upgrade when the new system is finalized.
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Sinse this is a high-end audio player first and video player second, it allows those that want DVD-audio without the video part to preview and use the DVD navigation through its front touchpad.
Some of the biggest winners to date have included Bank of America, home builders like PulteGroup and much-maligned Netflix, which is up sharply on the young year after a 2011 marred by an ill-fated effort to split its DVD-by-mail and streaming video businesses.
We somehow see this taking its place in the landfill right next to other great products like the self-destructing DVD and single-use digital video camera.
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Johansen testified on Thursday that he announced the successful reverse engineering of a DVD on the mailing list of the Linux Video and DVD Project (LiViD), a user resource center for video- and DVD-related work for Linux.
Home Entertainment Group and Netflix, Inc. (Nasdaq: NFLX) today announced a new agreement that will extend the current 28-day sales-only window to 56 days for Theatrical New Release and made-for-video titles on DVD and Blu-ray Disc.
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Blockbuster went into administration last week, as its entire business model of High Street-based DVD and video rentals has been superseded by online streaming services provided by the likes of Apple iTunes, Amazon's Love Film and Netflix.
Until now, Vudu has only been available through consumer electronics products, like TVs, Blue-ray DVD plays and video game consoles, that carried Vudu.
As means for distributing high-definition video, neither Blu-ray nor HD DVD is unique.
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Writers want higher repeat fees - residuals - for video and DVD sales and better royalties for sales of TV programmes.
The video streaming and DVD-by-mail service fell 1.5% Friday.
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As a video processor module in a small mini-box, the new accessory is simply placed in-line at the output of any HDMI video source, such as a video game console, DVD or Blu-ray player, media player, or any digital broadcast.
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And it will also boycott forthcoming DVD and video releases of the award-winning Mexican film Y Tu Mama Tambien and Mel Gibson's Vietnam epic We Were Soldiers.
After a modest up tick this year and in the next few years thanks to Blu-Ray and HD DVD, overall video rentals will begin contracting again in 2010, Holden projects.
This desktop comes with a built-in television tuner, stereo speakers, a digital video recorder, Blu-ray burner and a DVD player--all its innards built behind a sleek high-definition, flat-panel screen.
Though still in limited-access test mode, Joost boasts near-DVD picture quality, rare in Web video, and posts as little as a minute of advertising per hour of programming.
Key sticking points include residuals - the monies writers receive when their work is repeated on cable TV and in foreign markets - and payments from video and DVD sales.
The launch of NOOK Video makes it the first digital retailer of UltraViolet titles in the UK, making it easier than ever for UK customers to integrate compatible physical DVD and Blu-ray Disc purchases and digital video collections across their devices.
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Representing 75 years of innovative and award-winning filmmaking from Twentieth Century Fox, TCFHE is the worldwide marketing, sales and distribution company for all Fox film and television programming, acquisitions and original productions on DVD, Blu-ray Disc Digital Copy, Video On Demand and Digital Download.
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So it's not how many people--who wins the weekend, it's how much money a film generates for a studio, not merely from the box office, which is the smallest part--it's only 20 percent of the earnings--but from television sales where it's shown on television--network, pay television, cable--and, of course, DVD and video, foreign sales, toy licensing and even product placement.
HD-DVD may even prove irrelevant, as internet downloads become the medium of choice for high-definition video.
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Instead, the film was released in three formats simultaneously: ITunes, video-on-demand and DVD, and turned a nice profit.
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