DVD Jon hacks Media Player file encryption
Norway's best known IT export, DVD Jon, has hacked encryption coding in Microsoft's Windows Media Player, opening up content broadcast for the multimedia player to alternative devices on multiple platforms.
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All-In-One RapidShare Hacks
Several free RapidShare Hacks are combined into one and call it All-In-One RapidShare Hacks like the picture below.
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9.6.2006 Two Vista Registry Hacks
Thanks to rzalonis for this post in our forum. Here are two easy registry hacks for minor performance gains.
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17.4.2007 Recover Files from Damaged or Corrupted CD,DVD,HD DVD,Blu-Ray Disks
CD/DVD are optical storage media easily gets corrupted or damaged. CD & DVD discs have low durability and single scratch on CD/DVD will permanently damage your data.
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4.9.2009 Top 10 Vista Hacks
You've run Windows Vista, you've played around with the Aero interface, and maybe you've even mucked around a little bit in Vista's innards to see what makes it tick.
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17.4.2007 Very Good Results in Updating Vista Against Hacks and Cracks
Microsoft claims that it has seen what the company referred to as very good results in fighting Windows piracy with Windows Vista, although it has failed to elaborate on the subject.
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29.7.2008 Vista says NO to old DVD drives
Windows Vista will no longer support DVD-ROM drives that do not handle region coding in hardware (RPC1 drives) - thus preventing playback of DVDs that are region/CSS encoded with those drives.
Not a big problem, as RPC1 drives haven't been officially manufactured since 2000 (and Microsoft claims their drives are all broken), but for those with hacked drives (RPC2 with RPC1 firmware), or move the RPC1 drive to new computers, well, no more DVD movies for you!
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2.1.2006 Windows 7 DVD Covers
Inspired by the Windows 7 Ultimate Box Art DVD Cover which I posted about a week ago, Michel of MyDigitalLife forums has created a complete set of DVD Covers for Windows 7 Ultimate, Windows 7 Home Premium and Windows 7 Professional editions.
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16.8.2009 HD DVD Addon is for Movies Only
You may have heard recent rumors regarding Microsoft publishing Xbox 360 games on HD DVD discs (and in turn meaning that you would need the upcoming HD DVD add on to play them). Microsoft has officially responded.
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16.8.2006 HD DVD Encryption cracked?
A thread on the Doom9 forum contains links posted by user Muslix64. They lead to a YouTube video and source download for a piece of java code to be employed in the breaking of Advanced Access Content System (AACS) encoded video.
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28.12.2006 Is Microsoft Cracking Down on DVD Ripping?
Is Microsoft trying to thwart DVD-ripping on PCs using Windows Vista with the new beta of Vista Service Pack 1?
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19.1.2008 Microsoft and Intel to Support HD-DVD
Microsoft and Intel on Tuesday pledged their support for HD-DVD, the next-generation DVD format created by Toshiba. Microsoft had previously remained neutral in the standards war between HD-DVD and Sony-backed Blu-ray, as the company's VC-1 Windows Media Video codec will be included with both formats.
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Holographic DVD to Hold 1.6 Terabytes next year!
Move over HD DVD and Blu-ray. Bell Labs spin-off InPhase Technologies and Hitachi Maxell are currently working on a computer disc about the size of a DVD that could hold up to sixty times the data. The companies hope to have the disc and compatible drives on the market by the end of next year.
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27.11.2005 Microsoft Fully Commited to HD-DVD
Microsoft's Peter Moore sparked a wave of interest at CES when he indicated that the Xbox 360 might be blessed with an external Blu-Ray drive at some point in the future. The only trouble is, his bosses say it won't.
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19.1.2006 Vista Retail DVD on Pirate Websites
Copies of Windows Vista Retail DVE have been ripped and made available for download free of charge on pirate websites and peer-to-peer networks.
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7.2.2007 How To Burn Downloaded Windows Vista to DVD
OK, you've just purchased Windows Vista from Windows Marketplace and you selected "Digital Locker Download" instead of "Buy and Ship".
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20.4.2007 Installing Vista Beta 1 (x86) without DVD media
I know, I know - Everyone should have a DVD burner these days... but I don't. Here's a rough guide on getting Vista Beta 1 (x86) installed without the use of DVD media. I am not responsible for lost partitions, data, etc!
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Microsoft shows off HD DVD drive for Xbox
Microsoft on Monday offered the first glimpse of an external HD DVD drive built for the Xbox 360 game console.
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8.8.2006 CES 2007: HD DVD vs. Blu-ray
With the realization today that the LG "Super Multi Blue" player is a bit lax on its capabilities in the HD DVD department, not to mention all-around, it's fair to say it's premature to declare the HD DVD vs. Blu-ray format battle over by any stretch of the imagination.
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10.1.2007 XP Black Edition USA 2007 DVD
Thanks to odeeee and other posters to for this download. No Viruses....Cracks....for the programs it comes with.....Falsly reported as Viruses....Coz they R Crackz.
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7.5.2007 iTunes DVD deal focuses on Apple TV
Apple on Thursday announced that iTunes would get new movie releases from studios the same day as their DVD release, but the larger question is whether this move can give Apple TV more traction.
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1.5.2008 Windows 7 Ultimate Box Art DVD Cover
Windows 7 has already been RTM’d and is now officially available to Connect, MSDN and TechNet Plus subscribers.
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7.8.2009 Windows 7 RTM USB/DVD Download Tool Available
Microsoft is offering a free tool designed to streamline the creation of bootable Windows 7 RTM DVDs or USBs.
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23.10.2009 "Father of DVD" blasts Sony's Blu-Ray plans
Warren Lieberfarb, who is known as the "Father of DVD" for his efforts to standardize the format while president of Warner Home Video, spoke yesterday at the European Video Perspectives conference about Sony, Blu-Ray, and the battle for the next video format.
Lieberfarb launched right into Blu-Ray versus HD DVD, but his comments were somewhat surprising. He stated that Hollywood had been "duped" into blindly following a battle between game consoles instead of making a decision based on their best interests.
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13.12.2005 Microsoft XBOX 360 HD DVD Player pictures
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10.8.2006 Windows Vista Retailing: All versions On 1 DVD: Color Coded
As you may have heard there are going to be a “few” versions of Microsoft Vista when it is finally released. Redmond this week start to lift some of the details for retailers. Some interesting ones to note are that all versions of Vista will be on the same DVD.
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18.9.2006 Blu-ray Disc Sales Surpass HD DVD
Data from Nielsen indicates that sales of Blu-ray media for the first time has outpaced that of HD DVD; however, as expected, both camps in the high-definition format war have different ways of interpreting the data.
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24.2.2007 Xbox 360 HD DVD Player price drop
Now US $129.99! The Xbox 360 HD DVD Player price has dropped from $179.99 to $129.99 (U.S. MSRP.)
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6.2.2008 Microsoft Windows 7 Build 6801 DVD 32-Bit
Windows 7 is designed to make everyday tasks faster and easier, and make new things possible for end users.
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31.10.2008 Vista SP2 RTM DVD ISO Images Available for Download
Microsoft released Windows Vista Service Pack 2 to manufacturing on April 28, 2009. As was the case with Vista SP1, the RTM and General Availability dates failed to coincide.
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15.5.2009Three-Layer 51 GB HD DVD Apparently Approved by DVD Forum
News is only now leaking out that the three-layer, single sided format for HD DVD engineered by Toshiba was given the green light by the DVD Forum,
official backer of HD DVD, on August 31...
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11.09.2007Toshiba Shows Prototype That Records High-Def to DVD
At the CEATEC electronics show in Chiba, Japan, Toshiba showed a prototype of an HD DVD recorder capable of burning up to two hours of 4 Mbps MPEG-4
high-definition video. That video is apparently being burned using a red laser -- not blue -- to an ordinary DVD-R, DVD-RW, or DVD-RAM disc...
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05.10.2007Microsoft slams the door on Vista pirates
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: With the launch of SP1 Microsoft promised to put an end to two popular hacks used by pirates to allow a non-genuine install of
Windows Vista to function in the same way as a genuine install. Testing that Ive carried out in the lab today suggests that Microsoft has been true to
its word.
The two most common hacks used were the OEM BIOS hack and the grace timer hack (of which there were two flavors which
were widespread).
Testing both these methods of circumventing Windows activation and Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) has shown me
that SP1 effectively ignores both these hacks. Systems that previously were shown to be genuine prior to the installation of SP1 then require
activation - and if the system isnt activated it is marked at non-genuine and enters the nag state.
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11.02.2008HD DVD Player Drops Below $200
Despite the fanfare, the battle for control over the next-generation DVD market is still inconsequential; the DVD version of Transformers sold
43 times more copies than the HD DVD version, which was the best selling title thus far. But that could change this holiday with players finally
dropping below $200...
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30.10.2007EU Opens Inquiry into Next-Gen
DVD
The European Commission said
Thursday it was looking into
the licensing procedures of
next-generation DVD formats HD
DVD and Blu-ray. Neither side
is being accused of any
wrongdoing at this time...
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27.07.2006Toshiba: DVD Forum Hasn't Yet Approved Final 51 GB HD DVD After All
In a statement to BetaNews this afternoon, a Toshiba spokesperson said that only a preliminary version of Toshiba's 51 GB three-layer, single-sided
HD DVD format had been approved by the DVD Forum, caretaker of HD DVD...
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14.09.2007InterVideo Sues Dell Over DVD Autoplay
Dell was slapped with a lawsuit on Monday from software maker InterVideo over patent infringment regarding DVD technology that allows a DVD to play immediately after inserting it into a drive. InterVideo makes DVD copying and playback software, including the popular WinDVD suite...
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16.08.2005Microsoft Fighting Back Against Xbox 360 Firmware Hacks
According to reports from the
Xbox-Scene forums, Microsoft
has started shipping Xbox 360
consoles in the UK and
Australia regions with an
updated Hitachi DVD-ROM drive.
The new version of the drive
has implemented changes to the
hardware designed to make
hacking the firmware much
harder than before, including
changing the firmware chip
type, removing debug mode, and
encasing the chip with black
hard glue to make it harder to
access the chip and controller
pins. Consoles with a
manufacture date of August
2006 in the two affected
territories have been shown to
have the updated drive, but it
is certainly possible that
consoles manufactured on
earlier dates have the changes
as well. Microsoft has made
its first counter-move against
the hackers looking to open up
the Xbox 360, and this will
probably only be the first
salvo in an ongoing battle.
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03.10.2006Toshiba to Push Back HD DVD
Players
Following news that Warner
Home Video has delayed the
release of its initial batch
of HD DVD movie titles by
three weeks, Toshiba said
Thursday it will hold off on
launching the first HD DVD
players until next month. The
company initially targeted a
March debut of the
high-definition DVD format...
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24.03.2006HD DVD: 'Still Very Much in the Game'
The public relations melee
between HD DVD and Blu-ray
continued Wednesday as
supporters of HD DVD were
quick to point out their own
successes...
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26.04.2007First HD DVD Player Goes on
Sale
Toshiba kicked off the
next-generation of DVD
technology on Friday with the
launch of its first HD DVD
player in Japan. The HD-XA1 is
priced at 110,000 yen, or $940
USD -- slightly higher than it
will cost in the United
States. No movies in the
format will be available until
April, however the Toshiba
player can play current DVD
discs as well...
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31.03.2006Microsoft Seals Cracks
With the impending release of Service Pack 1 for Vista, Microsoft looks to slow down the pirates by cutting off two popular hacks to circumvent the
Windows Genuine Advantage Program.
Testing both these methods of circumventing Windows activation and Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA)
has shown me that SP1 effectively ignores both these hacks. Systems that previously were shown to be genuine prior to the installation of SP1 then
require activation - and if the system isn’t activated it is marked at non-genuine and enters the nag state.
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11.02.2008Japan HD DVD Player Launch
Delayed
The race for a next-generation
DVD standard could become
closer, as Toshiba on Tuesday
said its planned end-of-year
launch for HD DVD players in
Japan will be delayed until
early 2006. This could mean
both HD DVD and rival Blu-ray
formats would be launching
players at the same time...
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13.12.2005Proposed Amendment Would Ban All DVD Copying
A proposed amendment to the
current copy protection
license governing DVDs would
completely ban all DVD
backups, and prevent DVD
playback without the DVD disk
being present inside the
drive.
The proposed
amendment was made public in a
letter sent by Michael
Malcolm, the chief executive
of Kaleidescape, a DVD jukebox
company which successfully
defeated a suit by the DVD
Copy Control Association (DVD
CCA) this past March. The
proposed amendment is
scheduled for a vote on
Wednesday, according to
Malcolm.
A spokesman
for the CCA said he was not
aware of the proposed
amendment, but added that he
could not comment until the
CCA had finished its
deliberations. A spokeswoman
for Kaleidescape said she
understood that a final
decision could take weeks, if
not months...
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22.06.2007Microsoft and Intel to Support
HD-DVD
JUST IN Microsoft and
Intel are expected on Tuesday
to pledge their support for
HD-DVD, the next-generation
DVD format created by Toshiba.
Microsoft had previously
remained neutral in the
standards war between HD-DVD
and Sony-backed Blu-ray, as
the company's VC-1 Windows
Media Video codec will be
included with both formats...
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27.09.2005Fox: No Plans to Support HD
DVD
In the ongoing battle between
still-unreleased
next-generation DVD formats
Blu-ray and HD DVD, Fox Filmed
Entertainment has already
chosen sides. The studio says
it sees Sony's Blu-ray as the
clear winner due to
PlayStation 3 support, and,
unlike other studios, will not
produce movies in HD DVD...
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02.12.2005DVD Burns of Digital Movies
Coming
The DVD Copy Control
Association is about to remove
some of the roadblocks that
have prevented legally
recording downloadable movies
onto DVD, it recently
announced. Special DVDs would
allow this process in the
coming months...
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11.08.2006Microsoft Responds to Reported OEM BIOS Hacks
The WGA team have finally
provided a written response to
the reported OEM BIOS Hacks
regarding Vista:
I
know many of you are aware of
reports of hacks that attempt
to exploit our OEM BIOS based
activation. We're aware of
this type of hack and I wanted
to take a minute to describe
how these work and how we plan
to respond.
First, what is OEM BIOS
based activation?
Here's a little more
information on how OEM BIOS
based activation works. This
form of product activation is
also known as OEM Activation
or just OA, which is how
Microsoft refers to it and how
I will refer to it in this
post. Back at the launch of
Windows XP when Microsoft
introduced Windows Product
Activation, we recognized that
as easy as end-user activation
is, it still represented an
extra step.
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12.04.2007HDi Logo to Appear on Toshiba HD DVD Players
Staking its claim to a chunk of HD DVD technology, Microsoft announced today its HDi logo - representing its version of the interactivity layer of the
HD DVD format - will appear on all Toshiba brand HD DVD players made from this point on, as well as on selected Universal and Paramount
high-definition discs...
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20.09.2007HD DVD: Blu-ray Has Problems
Having finished speaking to
Blu-ray, BetaNews sat down
with a representative from HD
DVD to discuss how the
Microsoft-backed format will
compete with Blu-ray. Toshiba
HD DVD expert Tom Knox said
that because of Blu-ray's
complicated design, HD DVD
will triumph in the format
war...
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