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DIGITAL DIGEST  | LiveUpdate Newsletter - Issue 209

1 August, 2010

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INDEX:

1. Introduction

2. Weekly News Roundup

3. Weekly Software Roundup

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1. Introduction

Still busy with moving. And sorry about the 'test' email last week - Yahoo Groups was acting up, and I accidentally sent out a test message. Funny thing was that in the end, my message asking people to ignore the test email was actually sent before the test email was received by most. Weird.

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2. Weekly News Roundup

Still busy with the move I'm afraid, it's not the big things that's the problem, it's always the little things that you have pack carefully, and then move over bit by bit. So not a lot of time left to do any real work unfortunately, and it was a pretty light news week anyway. So we can get through this WNR pretty quickly it seems, sparing you of the pain of reading through a bunch of badly written crap nobody cares about. Or something.

Let's start things with the copyright news, which in a week with few news items, actually produced two quite important pieces of news.

First up is The Library of Congress' announcement of newly added exemptions to the DMCA. I've gone through the exemptions in the linked post, so you should read up on that, but the two biggies are the allowing of of iPhone style jailbreaking, and the exemptions to filmmakers in regards to DVD ripping. For DRM hacking on phones, as long as you do it for interoperability reasons, and not for piracy related reasons, then it's now allowed. Of course, Apple will have something to say about this, but their attempt to stop jailbreaking has never really been about copy protection, even by their own explanations (which are more to do with protecting the integrity of the platform, blah blah blah). It's an interesting fact that the US Copyright Office, who made these changes, acknowledges the role DRM now plays in not stopping copyright infringement, but actually preventing interoperability in order to allow companies to gain a financial advantage. In other words, it's anti-competitive.

The other biggie is that filmmakers and educators can actually break DRM on DVDs (and I suppose Blu-ray movies as well) in order to use clips for use in education, criticism or comment. The exemption had existed for educators, but the new exemption has the MPAA pretty riled up. And even with educators, remember when the MPAA demonstrated how teachers can record sections of DVDs and Blu-ray movies without breaking DRM (either the digital kind, CSS/AACS, or the analogue Macrovision kind), by using a camcorder to record a TV playing the DVD/Blu-ray? But now with filmmakers able to rip to their heart's content, it's no wonder the MPAA isn't happy. But the basis of a free and democratic society is that there should be no barriers to genuine criticism and comment, and unfortunately, DRM is a barrier created by corporations, some of them the very target of the criticism that DRM prohibits. That the MPAA even has the temerity to question such an exemption, just shows how out of control and out of touch they really are. They're bullies, nothing more.

The other exemptions were all in a similar vain, an attempt to fix some of problems created by the DMCA, the consequences of which meant that fair use was prevented. It's a step in the right direction, and there are still many steps to take before the DMCA can be truly called fair. But the message is clear – don't use DRM for anything other than protecting the rights of license holders, and even when doing this, make sure you don't infringe on the existing rights of consumers.

And almost at the same time, we have a court ruling that gives hope that further steps in the future will be taken to ensure the above. A judge has ruled that merely breaking DRM is not enough to trigger the anti-circumvention provision of the DMCA. The DMCA was created as an extension to existing copyright laws that did not properly deal with copyright protection in the digital era. The fact that *any* DRM breaking is considered as breaking the DMCA is too wide an interpretation of the anti-circumvention provision, and I'm very glad that a judge has finally made a ruling that takes this into account. As the DMCA is an extension of copyright laws, then anti-circumvention should only be prohibited if copyright laws are broken as a result. Once again, it's the idea that DRM should only be used to prevent copyright abuse, and that breaking DRM isn't illegal if it's not used for an illegal act. To use an analogy, it's the difference between buying a knife and using a knife to stab someone. Breaking DRM, buying the knife, should not be illegal unless it leads to a crime, that is to stab someone with the knife. But the industry wants to ban not only knives, but people who make knives, talk about knives, or anything that even remotely looks or functions like a knife (everyone look out, it's a fork!). In other words, copyright holders want to make the act of DRM breaking illegal, even if you're doing it for completely legal purposes.

And if we interpret the anti-circumvention clause in the same manner as Judge Garza, then the DMCA makes much more sense from a consumer point of view. If making a copy of your legally purchased content, a backup, is not illegal, then breaking DRM to do so should not be illegal either. If I want to break DRM just for the heck of it, then I should be able to do so, as long as I'm not hurting anyone else's commercial interests. And in fact, if DRM prevents users from exercising their rights, then that DRM should be illegal. And this make sense, because no individual has ever lost a court case just because they broke DRM to make a backup, and if the MPAA tried to sue, they will lose each and every time. And even the MPAA and anti-piracy agencies will admit to the fact that they would never go after anyone breaking DRM for personal, non commercial reasons. So why not put this in writing by adding  further exemptions to the DMCA (or rather, just clarify the mess that it is)? All of this show just how ridiculously flawed the DMCA is as a piece of legislation, but at least there appears to be hope that something fairer will exist someday.

But then the industry will say, yes, many people will use Blu-ray rippers, for example, to make backups, and many more will use the same software to pirated movies. And a new study does show that there are increasing numbers of people doing the so called rent, rip and return, and now with Blu-ray, as opposed to just DVDs. Well my response to this is that, let's take a look at the people not breaking the law but still breaking DRM, and see why they're doing it. If they're doing it to protect their legally purchased goods, for example backups, and if DRM prevents them from doing that, then the implementers of the DRM should provide tools that allow backups to occur, but not piracy. If people are breaking DRM so they can play games without the original disc inserted into their drive, then make something that will allow them to do this, but without enabling piracy (Steam, anyone?). And you know what? If they do it right, they may actually make money out of providing these solutions to the problems that DRM creates. And then there's the piracy problem, which according to the same study, is becoming more of a casual piracy problem (ie. people copying movies they buy so they can share it with friends and family). But the industry's response will be the introduction of more and more complex and "fool proof" DRM systems. It's like watching Wile E. Coyote goes after The Road Runner, the industry versus piracy, and instead of ACME products, it's DRM.  And just like the cartoons, not only will the industry certainly fail to stop piracy, they'll probably end up hurting themselves in the process. But like most of society's more complex problems, one should always try to examine the cause and find solutions, most of them not easy, not quick fixes. There is no magic bullet to the piracy problem, no magical DRM that will prevent all copying forever, not without seriously impacting on the usability of the product, so stop looking there. Instead, look at why people are participating in casual piracy – and don't say because they don't know it's wrong or illegal, they do (most of the time) – but seriously examine why people, knowing it's wrong, still do it. Is it because it's fun? Or because it's easy? Or perhaps it's because people can't afford to pay the money that's being asked of them for the goods in question. And if stopping piracy means dropping prices, possibly reducing revenue in the short term (but probably good for the long term), is that a solution the industry is willing to adopt? Or if the alternative is that high prices with higher (short term) revenue, but with some piracy to be expected, then is this not good enough? The MPAA can't have its Roadrunner, and eat it too.

In gaming piracy news, the UK is set to ban R4 style DS carts that allow pirated games to be played on the portable console, after a recent court ruling in favour of Nintendo. There's no question that R4 style carts are predominantly used to pirate DS games, but these types of carts also have other uses. Primarily, it allows gamers to carry hundreds of games store digitally in memory cards, as opposed to carrying their purchased carts everywhere. Also, there's almost always some multimedia function built in that otherwise does not exist for the console, and lastly, it enables development of homebrew software. While the ban is understandable, because DS piracy is rife, but just like Sony's recent decision to pull Other OS/Linux support for the PS3, there are unintended consequences that hurt the platform. Nintendo will introduce the ability to store games on memory cards, but without an apps platform, homebrew development and the development of non gaming software for the DS will be severely hurt. This goes back to what I mentioned earlier about finding solutions to the problems that DRM creates (or in this case, the problems created by a legal decision to ban these carts), and then profiting from the solutions. Look at Apple and Google with their apps platforms, and don't you think the DS needs something like this too?

There's a surprising lack of HD or 3D news. Those that follow my weekly Blu-ray sales analysis will notice a slight drop off in Blu-ray market share in recent times.

There's no need for panic (yet), as most of this is due to the lack of A-list releases. The overall trends is still of positive growth, but growth may be slowing down. The biggest enemy of Blu-ray is that the fact that DVDs are still pretty darn good value, and that a lot of movies and TV shows won't really benefit from the full HD treatment, not at a considerable higher price. But if studios drop prices, then Blu-ray loses its ability to earn more revenue for studios, because it's definitely not cheaper to produce and manufacturer a Blu-ray movie compared to a DVD one.

Studios will hope 3D Blu-ray can keep the format at a higher price premium, but people want their stuff and want it cheaper than before, and this has always been the driver behind the ever dropping price of movies. Ironically, I think dropping prices may be the key to increasing revenue – instead of having people buy a few movies at high prices, how about getting them to buy tons of movies at low prices. For that though, possibly some kind of digital distribution is needed, because if my recent house move has told me anything, it's that having hundreds of discs to pack, ship and then store at the new place is a lot of trouble.

And finally in gaming, another firmware update for the PS3 and another round of problems being reported. What was supposedly a simple update, firmware version 3.41, to add a "recommend" feature to the PS store has turned out far more complicated.

Apparently, the new firmware stops people upgrading their HDDs, a feature that Sony has often promoted as being superior to the Xbox 360's use of official hard-drive accessories (and they're right, the Xbox 360 hard-drive accessories really are a rip off). It's very likely just a bug, as opposed to another "Other OS" situation where firmware updates actually remove previously supported features.

I'm not a big fan of the PS3's firmware update schedule. It's a good idea to add new functionality to the console, but it's a bad idea to update every couple of weeks, because there's always a risk with every update, with software of firmware. Imagine if Microsoft released a service pack every month for Windows, and you get the reason as to why there are so many problems with the PS3 updates. Do a major update every 6 month or so, with small patches to fix bugs and issues in between, and that's more than enough. If firmware releases come too frequently, there's no way Sony can do any sort of comprehensive testing to ensure bugs are not present.

Okay, that's all I've got this week. There *has* to be more next week, I hope, so until then, have a good one.

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3. Weekly Software Roundup

August 1, 2010	Mobile Media Converter 1.6.1 Freeware
August 1, 2010	AVIAddXSubs 9.7 Freeware
August 1, 2010	ffdshow Rev. 3517 (generic/x64) Freeware
August 1, 2010	Blaze 1.0.3 Freeware
August 1, 2010	Subs Factory 1.3.0 Freeware
July 31, 2010	SimpleMovieX 3.10
July 31, 2010	J. River Media Center 15.0.80
July 31, 2010	VSO PhotoDVD 4.0.0.35
July 31, 2010	StaxRip 1.1.6.6 Beta Freeware
July 31, 2010	BDedit 0.35
July 30, 2010	multiAVCHD 4.1 build 762 Freeware
July 30, 2010	MkvConvert 2.0 Freeware
July 30, 2010	Replay Media Catcher 4.0.5.0
July 30, 2010	VideoLAN (VLC) 1.1.2 Freeware
July 29, 2010	x264 r1688 Freeware
July 29, 2010	Any Video Converter Free 3.07 Freeware
July 29, 2010	MKVToolnix 4.2.0 Freeware
July 29, 2010	DVD slideshow GUI 0.9.3.8 Freeware
July 29, 2010	MediaCoder 0.7.5 Build 4710 Freeware
July 28, 2010	WAV to AC3 Encoder 4.7 Freeware
July 27, 2010	DV Scheduler 5.56 Freeware
July 27, 2010	PopCorn MKV AudioConverter 1.82.5 Freeware
July 27, 2010	VideoCacheView 1.75 Freeware
July 27, 2010	Miro 3.0.3 Freeware
July 27, 2010	CDBurnerXP 4.3.6.2284 Freeware
July 27, 2010	Free AVCHD Editor 0.2.1.348 Freeware
July 27, 2010	MKVExtractGUI-2 1.1.5.1 Freeware
July 26, 2010	XMedia Recode 2.2.5.0 Freeware
July 26, 2010	DVD Swarm 0.9.10.725 Beta Freeware
July 26, 2010	RipBot264 1.16.2 Freeware
July 25, 2010	MythTV 0.23.1 Freeware
July 25, 2010	TVersity Free Edition 1.9.2 Freeware

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DIGITAL DIGEST  | LiveUpdate Newsletter - Issue 208

25 July, 2010

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INDEX:

1. Introduction

2. Weekly News Roundup

3. Weekly Software Roundup

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1. Introduction

No mid week blog or guide as I've been busy moving mid-week, to my new place. Hardly anything is where it's supposed to be, as half of my stuff is still at the old place, and the stuff at the new place is everywhere except where they should be. But at least I managed to get my computer connected to the new Samsung 3D TV, and get Blu-ray 3D going, if only for a little while as I had to put my computer back where it belongs, in the home office.

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2. Weekly News Roundup

Hello. I've finally completed moving house, by completed, I of course mean that there's still tons of stuff that needs to be moved over. But this is the first WNR at the new place. But the roundup must go on, as they say, despite aching limbs and a sleep deprived brain. One good thing about the move was that I was finally able to test Blu-ray 3D playback via PowerDVD 10 Mark II to my Samsung 3D plasma. More on that later.

Let's start with copyright news. The US Copyright Group is in the news again this week as they step up their campaign targeting thousands of web users accused of downloading pirated movies.

The latest development sees the USCG hiring the services of smaller law firms signalling the next phase of their plans – going to court. It was always understood that firms like the USCG would avoid going to court whenever possible, since the costs are higher and so are the risk (of losing, and hence, setting a precedent that could hurt future business). But it appears the USCG is pressing ahead anyway, no doubt going after those that are easy to beat in court. It may also be their way of showing that they do intend to go to court, a criticism that critics have used in the past to attack similar actions, and if they can get a few easy victories under their belt, maybe a high profile one, then this can be used to scare more people  into paying up. And as for working with the EFF to draft a user friendlier notice to send to suspected pirates, it seems the two sides just can't get along and both may have to go and see the judge again to see how they can get things moving. This isn't the biggest surprise in the world, as one side wants to make the notices are serious as possible to get people to pay up, while the other want the notice to be informative enough to allow people to defend themselves – it was always difficult, if not impossible, to meet both objectives.

While the USCG aren't winning friends with web users, ISPs and rights groups, they are making friends in other media circles, and at least one law firm is now copying their strategy, except going after those who pirate newspaper articles, rather than movies. Suing hundreds of websites and blogs is Las Vegas based Righthaven, representing the owners of the Las Vegas Review-Journal. While most newspapers use DMCA takedown notices to get their full articles removed from forums and blogs, there is no money that can be made by taking this approach. But if the threat of a lawsuit, and the request for a pre-trial settlement works for the USCG on movie downloaders, then the thinking is that website owners will do the same as well, even when the offending content was posted by one of its users, not the website itself. The recent Viacom versus YouTube action showed that user generated websites do have protection from the safe harbor provisions under the DMCA, as long as they have a clear anti copyright infringement policy in place and enforces this policy consistently. So one might think this would apply to forums where users have posted full articles against forum rules, or blogs where users have made the same post in the comments. But the fear of an expensive lawsuit means that many will simply pay the settlement fee to avoid the trouble, although others are willing to challenge the claims in court. If this model works, expect all other newspaper owners to follow suit, as most of them are struggling to keep profits from dropping in what many calls a dying industry.

Moving to Europe now, it appears ISPs in many countries are not happy at their respective government's three-strikes policies, and are going to court to fight it. Three-Strikes, or similar laws, may appear to be aimed at users who download pirated content, but it is in fact aimed at ISPs, making them responsible for monitoring and "sentencing", for want of a better word, their own subscribers. The cost of the operation will have to be absorbed by the ISP, and mistaken identifies or other errors could even see the ISPs sued. The ISPs argue that since the music labels and movie studios are the one that will supposedly benefit from piracy being reduced, they're the ones that should play a more active role in enforcing three-strikes. The content owners, however, will argue that they're the victims in this and that ISPs should just pass on the cost to subscribers. The big question is if this wasn't about the Internet, would government, who are normally clueless about Cyberspace, be so willing to give in to the demands of copyright holders? If people were committing copyright infringement via the telelphone, let's say something silly like reading out loud books or newspaper articles to the person on the other end, should the telephone company then be tasked with spying on users' conversations so they can put a stop to this illegal practice? Should the government then help to make spying legal and part of the copyright laws? ISPs are nothing more than utility companies, like the gas, electricity or telephone companies, and making them responsible for what their subscribers do with the service just doesn't seem right. And if there are any technical advantage that make ISP level "spying" easier, then it would still be unfair to make ISPs bare the entire cost of the operation. It's forcing one industry, and tax payer money,  to protect another industry's revenue stream for no reason other than it's the easy thing to do.

The Swedish Pirate Party wants to do something about ISP snooping though, and they are planning to launch their "Pirate ISP", which will ensure no data about users if kept, so that their privacy is protected. The idea is nice, but I can already see the lawsuits and search, arrest warranty being typed up, probably before the ISP is even launched.

And when Hollywood is finished getting the government and ISPs to do their bidding, for free, they will turn their targets on those that try to innovate too much. Because innovation could eventually lead content being published without having to be controlled by publishers, and that spells bad news for revenue. Google TV is next in Hollywood's cross-hairs it seems, as the new proposed system which aims to present a common interface for viewing media, online and offline, on TVs may just be too innovative for Hollywood's liking. In their submission to the FTC, Hollywood studios claims that Google TV could potentially allow users to interact with both legal and illegal media, in the same interface, and that's will encourage users to all become pirates. Instead of seeing how such an innovation could revolutionize the way people buy content on the Internet, and instead of supporting Google, a company with a history of knowing how to get money out of the Internet and its users, they yet again focus on the piracy issue and the issue alone. Just like how music labels refused to work with digital music retailers and instead focused on more and more complicated layers of DRM, and then having the likes of Apple iTunes swallow up a huge chunk of Internet related profit that otherwise would have gone to the labels, Hollywood appears to be making the same mistake.

Instead, their solutions is, you guessed it, more DRM. Hollywood's new fairer DRM scheme, supported by pretty much all the studios expect Disney (who have their own proprietary system in the works), is now called UltraViolet. How is it friendlier? Well, it plans to make DRM protected files more portable, working in more players and systems, but it still has the stench of DRM all over it, and thus, all the same usual problems: lack of universal compatibility, the need for online authentication, and don't expect the files to work forever as there is no guarantee whatsoever that any DRM system will be kept supported and updated (at high cost by the DRM operators) forever. The IEEE is also working on their own "fairer" DRM, which will make digital files more like physical objects, in that ownership can be transferred, so sharing something with a friend could mean that you lose the ability to use the file forever if your friend do not return ownership back to you. The scheme, called P1817, could even work in conjunction with the monster that is UltraViolet, to make everything a bit fairer you see. The funny thing is that by acknowledging the need to make things fairer, content owners have just acknowledged that DRM, at least in past forms, have not been fair to users. I would go one step further and say that DRM is always unfair to users, so if you want them to accept it, make sure you give them back something in return. Whether's that lower prices, better services, or even just less hoops to jump through, it is needed. Content owners should not take users for granted, as they may just go elsewhere (and if there's no legal alternative, guess where they will be, and have been, heading to?)

In HD/3D news, as mentioned in the introduction, I managed to get PowerDVD 10 Ultra 3D with the Mark II patch to play a Blu-ray 3D movie and have it display as proper 3D on my new Samsung 3D plasma TV.

It took a bit of work trying to get it to work, but I've posted the instructions here for those that want to give it a go. The 3D effects are great, even if you're not getting full 1080p resolution, but that will only be possible when updated drivers are available for my ATI Radeon HD card. For now, it means I can play Blu-ray 3D movies in 3D without a standalone Blu-ray 3D player (although my free bonus one, part of a promotion Samsung were running here in Australia, should be on its way from Samsung, hopefully arriving before the PS3 gets its Blu-ray 3D update).

But while I wait for my Blu-ray 3D player to arrive, it may already be obsolete, thanks to the idea of "upgradeable hardware" introduced by the Blu-ray format. The idea says that, like software, there may be a new version out every year and you would need to pay to get the new version, if you want the latest features. We've already had Profile 1.0, 1.1 and 2.0 players, and I guess Blu-ray 3D counts as 2.5 or something. And when BDXL movie discs arrive (if they arrive), then we'll all need new players again (4.0, since 3.0 is already taken by the fairly unused Blu-ray audio format). It's nice having 128GB capacity, but not so nice when I have to yet again upgrade my Blu-ray player, despite how cheap players have become. Even the always versatile PS3 won't be able to support BDXL, since the only thing that the PS3 can't update through software, the Blu-ray drive itself, will need to be updated. And soon after Blu-ray 4.0, we'll have Super-Blu-ray 1.0, with Sony promising a 1TB disc using an even more powerful laser. Downloads, streaming, storage lockers … if only everyone had the bandwidth to make download a Blu-ray quality movie a matter of minutes, rather than hours (or weeks, in certain Internet backwaters,  like Australia), then we could get rid of the disc altogether, or burn our own discs by only replacing the optical drive in your computer, as opposed to an entire standalone player. It's bad for the environment, bad for our wallets, and it's just annoying.

But at least one thing to do with Blu-ray is going disc-less. Netflix streaming on the PS3 will finally work without a Blu-ray disc, and it only took a year after Netflix was first available on the PS3, and several after the Netflix was originally launched on the Xbox 360 (which had disc-less streaming from the get go). Better late than never, I suppose.

And finally in the ever rarer gaming section, Microsoft has finally revealed the official Kinect pricing. Which is exactly the same as the unofficial pricing all the retailers have been using for months.

The only surprise, and a good one, is that the $149.99 price includes a free game, Kinect Adventures. But it was Microsoft's other announcement which were a bit more interesting, like the new "Arcade", the Xbox 360 4GB, which is basically the same piece of hardware as the new "Slim" Xbox 360 250GB, except without the 250GB HDD of course. The price for this new console is $199, but if you buy it with Kinect in a bundle, it will be $299, so that's another $50 off Kinect's pricing if you buy it with the new console. Some will say that this attempt to compete with the Wii is doomed to failure, because the Wii will be much cheaper. But the Xbox 360 doesn't need to be the same price as the Wii, since it's a much better console (certainly plays more types of games than the Wii, in HD too). There's no Xbox 360 250GB Kinect bundle, which is a shame because that's the one I would like to buy. Kinect pre-orders on Amazon jumped back to the top 5 after the pricing announcement on Wednesday, but has since dropped down to 21. The Move bundle is at 49th.

And that's the news I have for this week. Sorry about the rushed nature of this WNR, what with all the mistakes and mindless rambling, moving house takes a lot out of a person. You didn't notice any differences? That's good then. What do you mean "it's same crap as usual"? Huh? Anyway, here's to a less crappy WNR next week.

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3. Weekly Software Roundup

July 25, 2010	Jaksta 4.0.0
July 25, 2010	BDtoAVCHD 1.1.2 Freeware
July 25, 2010	Ut Video Codec Suite 8.0.0 Freeware
July 25, 2010	TFM Audio Tool 1.2 beta Freeware
July 24, 2010	VDownloader 2.9.462
July 24, 2010	CamStudio 2.6 Beta Freeware
July 24, 2010	LoiLoScope 1.8.2
July 24, 2010	ProgDVB 6.45.3 Freeware
July 24, 2010	MediaPortal 1.1.0 Freeware
July 24, 2010	ReClock DirectShow Filter 1.8.7.1 beta Freeware
July 23, 2010	GOM Encoder 1.0.0.35
July 23, 2010	multiAVCHD 4.1 build 761 Freeware
July 23, 2010	x264 r1683 Freeware
July 23, 2010	BSplayer Pro 2.55
July 23, 2010	BSplayer 2.55 Freeware
July 22, 2010	Quick Media Converter 4.0.0.30 HD Beta
July 22, 2010	MediaCoder 0.7.5 Build 4703 Freeware
July 22, 2010	DVD Swarm 0.9.10.721 Beta Freeware
July 22, 2010	Free AVCHD Editor 0.2.1.258 Freeware
July 22, 2010	VideoLAN (VLC) 1.1.1 Freeware
July 21, 2010	WinFF 1.3.0 Freeware
July 21, 2010	DV Scheduler 5.55 Freeware
July 20, 2010	BluRip 0.5.0 Freeware
July 20, 2010	Replay Media Catcher 4.0.2.0
July 19, 2010	BD Rebuilder 0.34.05 Beta Freeware
July 19, 2010	DVDAuthorGUI 1.025c test Freeware
July 19, 2010	XMedia Recode 2.2.4.7 Freeware
July 18, 2010	TVersity Free Edition 1.9.1 Freeware
July 18, 2010	DVD slideshow GUI 0.9.3.7 Freeware

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