Still, a universal format for transmitting 1080p content around the home is certainly something that's easy to dig -- it's getting everyone on a single caboose that's difficult.

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RealJukebox can save music in the universal MP3 format or a proprietary one, and at many different levels of quality.

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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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Twentieth Century Fox, Disney, Paramount and Universal have all signed long-term agreements to release titles on the Divx format.

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