[liveupdate] Digital Digest "LiveUpdate" Newsletter - Issue 220

 

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DIGITAL DIGEST  | LiveUpdate Newsletter - Issue 220

17 October, 2010

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INDEX:

1. Introduction

2. Weekly News Roundup

3. Weekly Software Roundup

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1. Introduction

This is where I usually talk about the latest NPD analysis, and link to the analysis blog post, but NPD has decided to be Scrooge-like (and so close to Christmas!), and not release any unit sales figures anymore, so I'll have to make do with leaked and bootleged figures, hopefully with the analysis up sometime next week. Booooo.

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2. Weekly News Roundup

Let's start this relatively quiet week with some bad news. It is very likely I will have to cease updating a long running feature here. Sorry to stop all of you from leaping for joy at the demise of the WNR, I'm sorry to say that's not what I'm posting about. Instead, it's the NPD US video game sales analysis, in its 38th monthly edition already, but it looks like 39th may very well never arrive. You see, NPD is no longer releasing hardware and software unit sales numbers, and this makes writing an analysis very difficult. Luckily, there may be some data leaks by manufacturers, publishers and other analysts with access to the NPD numbers, and when that happens, an analysis may still be posted. So far for this first month, there does seem to be some leaks, so the 39th NPD analysis may very well be posted early next week.

Anyway, let's start going over the news in this, as previously mentioned, relatively quiet week.

Copyright

In copyright news, the Irish High Court has dealt a blow to the music industry's attempts to shift responsibility of online piracy unto ISPs.

The court ruled that provider UPC was not responsible for what users do on its network, as Ireland had not yet implemented the EU directive on copyright. The next step for the music industry is to cry to the government and get them to help stop the nasty ISPs from hurting their billion dollar profits, and I'm sure they'll find a sympathetic ear. As I've mentioned a billion times before, I don't get the argument of the record and movie industries. If ISP should be made responsible for subscriber downloads, then why not the phone company, as most downloads are still done via good old phone lines and exchanges. What about the companies that maintain the routers and switches for the Internet – illegal traffic has to pass through their hardware eventually, so why not make them responsible too? So it's only the websites that host torrent files (which don't directly link to pirated content), the users who upload and download, and ISPs that the music/movie industries hold responsible (maybe Google and other search engines as well), but everybody else gets a free pass? Will hard-drive makers get sued too because they keep on making bigger hard-drives that are used to store pirated files? Where does the buck stop?

This is a question they can never answer, because the industry is passing on responsibility of fighting piracy to others, even though they are the only ones to benefit from any action taken. Governments can be lobbied take some of the responsibility, but other private companies are not just going to sit by idly and let the music/movie industries get away with it. And if the government, via new laws, make ISPs responsible, then what they are effectively doing is subsidizing the very profitable music and movie industries by taking money out of the Internet industry, just because one industry has a better lobbying organisation than the other. But I believe the saviour of the music/movie industry, if they need saving at all, will lie in the Internet domain, and so there's more reason for them all to work together, giving users more innovative solutions, as opposed to working against each other while fighting the futile fight against piracy, while consumers are the ones hurt by all of this (either the lack of innovation, or financial and legal consequences, even for those that don't pirate music and movies). But that's just me.

And speaking of companies not working together for the common good, more evidence this week that copyright law firms don't really respect copyright, as they steal (or allege others of stealing) from each other. The US Copyright Group is suing the Media Copyright Group for stealing their name, even though they have different names. This is after the USCG was caught earlier in the year stealing another copyright law firm's website design, and even earlier when UK copyright law firm ACS:Law accused of another UK copyright law firm of stealing their mailing templates. But I'm not surprised that these firms are suing for each other, or that some of them don't respect copyright. Because first of all, and just like the Scorpion and the Frog fable, it's in their nature to sue anyone and anything. And second of all, they don't respect copyright because their work means that they don't need to respect copyright, because it's all about the money. In fact, these law firms would have no business if piracy was stopped tomorrow, so it's actually in their interest for piracy to continue. Is it going too far to even suggest that these firms are making money off piracy? Well, all I know is that when home users download a torrent, and subsequently upload portions of it while they're downloading, they're not making a profit from the operations, other than saving the money of purchasing the content. Some torrent website may make some money through advertising, but overall, online piracy is one "industry" that's not really about making a profit – unlike the industries that has sprouted up to combat it.

But if money is to be made from piracy or anti-piracy, then Google wants a piece of it too. Instead of giving in to movie studio demands to take responsibility for sites in its vast index (by this principle, Google may very well be responsible for all the world's ills at the moment thanks to all the websites it indexes. Except for News Corp sites. So that's one less evil Google is responsible for, I guess), it has suggested, shock horror, that studios may need to pay a little bit of money to reduce piracy and improve the studio's bottom line. I'm sure the studios are outraged at the suggestion that they would have to pay for actions that benefit only themselves. Crying to Congress about it may be their only hope!

An update on The Pirate Bay appeals case, it has now concluded and a decision is expected on November 26th. I have deliberately avoided covering this trial because I suspect there is only one outcome, and that the original verdict will be upheld. Or maybe I was just too lazy to keep track of it, I don't know.

High Definition

Not much happening in HD/3D land, except that Iron Man 2's stats came out, and while it was impressive, it did not really outsell the likes of Avatar.

What the Blu-ray version did manage to do was to get more than 50% of the market share, not the first time this has happened, but the first time for such a high profile release during the first week of release. In other words, when Iron Man 2 became available at retail outlets, most people purchased the Blu-ray or Blu-ray/DVD combo version, as opposed to the DVD only version. While this may suggest that Blu-ray has now replaced DVDs as the dominant format, there are a couple of caveats to this stat. First of all, overall Blu-ray market share is still only around 10% to 15% (it was up to 18% for Iron Man 2 week), mainly because not all titles are release yet on Blu-ray, but largely because people are being very selective when buying Blu-ray editions, as opposed to DVD editions. It's all about the expected picture/audio quality I suppose.

Another important thing to note is that with the current pricing, it's very bad value to buy any of the DVD-only editions, especially if one plans to upgrade to Blu-ray any time in the next couple of years. The reason for this is that the Blu-ray single disc version of Iron Man 2 was only priced a single dollar more than the equivalent DVD-only edition. The Blu-ray/DVD combo was even better value, at only $2 more than the 2-disc DVD edition. Now, even if I didn't have a Blu-ray player, if the pricing differential was so insubstantial, I would never buy the DVD only editions. For $2 more, I can future proof my movie collection right now, and although I miss out temporarily on the extra features on the second DVD if I didn't have a Blu-ray player, in return, I get two copies of the same movie, as opposed to just one. At the end of the day, even if I didn't have a Blu-ray player, I still get to enjoy the movie on DVD and I will know that when I get a Blu-ray player, I won't have to re-buy the movie. Of course, I think what has happened is that people were buying the single disc DVD version, as opposed to the combo version, which works out to be around $8 in savings. Still, when the two disc DVD edition costs more than the cheapest Blu-ray version ($5 more), if this doesn't convince people to go and get a Blu-ray player, then I don't know what will. The consumers that aren't convinced will be difficult to convert into the Blu-ray cult, I think.

But Inception will be released in December, and I think that's will be the title to beat for 2010.

Sony has announced its range of Google TV supporting TVs and Blu-ray players. It's basically the tried and failed Internet TV platform, but now with a Google twist to make everything just a bit easier to use. Add the eventual support for the Android marketplace, and it can even become a surprisingly capable gaming platform for simple casual games. This convergence thing, that people, including me, were talking about years and years before, seems to be happening right in front of our eyes. Is a Sony TV with Google TV really just a TV, or a computer that can access the Internet, or a PVR that can record TV shows, or a games console? It only does everything, I suppose … oops, wrong company's slogan.

Gaming

And finally in gaming, as mentioned above, the lack of NPD stats make the NPD stats analysis feature a bit more difficult to write. But I have some experience in writing much about nothing, so maybe I'll manage.

But for September's figures, I think I will still be able to come up with an analysis because of some of the leaked numbers, which suggests the Xbox 360 won the month easily again, while both the Wii and PS3 were actually down compared to a year ago, 45 and 37 percent respectively. The PS3 numbers might surprise a few people, since it has seen huge year-on-year growth recently, but as I mentioned in the last few NPD posts, we're finally comparing apples with apples, or rather, slims with slims (whereas before, we were comparing the low priced slims with the high priced fats) – and as I have been trying to explain, the recent PS3 sales figures aren't that impressive at all when you take this into account, and September's figure prove this point.

The other interesting fact was that Halo Reach sold more than 3.3 million copies, only the third title ever to sell more than 3 million copies in the first month (in the US) – the other two are Modern Warfare 2, and the previous major Halo game, Halo 3. No specific figures were available for the Move, but the accessories sector grew compared to last year, the only one to do so, and this means the Move bundle probably sold well, but not well enough to have dragged the PS3 console sales any higher.

Anyway, I better stop writing before this turns into a fully fledged NPD analysis.

In other gaming news, Sony has a new way to combat the use of the PS Jailbreak device – new games, such as the new Medal of Honor, will come with firmware updates that disable the device, and if you want to play these games, you are forced to install the firmware. A typically heavy handed action by Sony, but it will probably work. Until someone pirates a hacked version of MoH that won't require the new firmware, that is.

And that's it for this week. Not a lot of news as I mentioned, but hopefully enough to tide you over until next week. So until then …

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3. Weekly Software Roundup

October 17, 2010  XBMC media center Dharma 10.0 Beta3 Linux/Unix Mac OS Windows Freeware
October 17, 2010  kmttg v0p7p Linux/Unix Mac OS Windows Freeware
October 17, 2010  MeGUI 0.3.5.17 Freeware
October 16, 2010  SGI's Video Converter 0.3.7 Freeware
October 16, 2010  LiVES 1.0.10 Linux/Unix Freeware
October 16, 2010  Wondershare DVD Slideshow Builder 6.0.2
October 16, 2010  Beyond TV 4.9.3
October 16, 2010  DVD PixPlay 6.13
October 16, 2010  ProgDVB 6.48.3 Freeware
October 15, 2010  HDConvertToX 3.0.691.4632 Freeware
October 15, 2010  GB-PVR 1.5.33 Beta Freeware
October 15, 2010  PlayOn 3.0.24.1259
October 15, 2010  HDPVR Capture 2.8.1 Mac OS Freeware
October 15, 2010  AVS Video Converter 7.0.2.452
October 15, 2010  EMDB 1.19 Freeware
October 13, 2010  RAD Video Tools 1.9x Freeware
October 13, 2010  GOM Player 2.1.27.5031 Freeware
October 13, 2010  Splash 1.6.0 Freeware
October 13, 2010  VideoReDo TVSuite with H.264 4.20.5.607 Beta
October 13, 2010  MKVtools 2.4.1 Mac  OS Freeware
October 13, 2010  Camtasia Studio 7.1.0
October 13, 2010  AVStoDVD 2.3.2 Freeware
October 12, 2010  Replay Media Catcher 4.0.1.2
October 12, 2010  eXtreme Movie Manager 7.0.9.2
October 12, 2010  Subtitle Edit 3.0 RC1 Freeware
October 12, 2010  Ut Video Codec Suite 8.3.0 Freeware
October 12, 2010  Vegas Pro 10.0a
October 12, 2010  SPlayer 3.6 Build 1558 Beta Freeware
October 12, 2010  CCCP 2010-10-10 Freeware
October 11, 2010  MKVcleaver 0.5.0.1 Freeware
October 11, 2010  DVDStyler 1.8.2 RC1 Linux/Unix Mac OS Windows Freeware
October 11, 2010  x264 r1745 Freeware
October 10, 2010  CamStudio 2.6 Beta r273 Freeware


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[liveupdate] Digital Digest "LiveUpdate" Newsletter - Issue 219

 

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DIGITAL DIGEST  | LiveUpdate Newsletter - Issue 219

10 October, 2010

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INDEX:

1. Introduction

2. Weekly News Roundup

3. Weekly Software Roundup

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1. Introduction

Critics of the current 3D hype will say that people should wait for the glasses-free 3D TVs. Toshiba has now released their first, but it's unlikely to satisfy 3D critics with the small size and high price, not to mention the limited viewing angles and low resolution. We may have to wait for holographic TVs if we want a great, glasses-free 3D experience.

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2. Weekly News Roundup

Welcome to the 10/10/10 edition of the WNR. I'm always weary when writing dates, since different regions use different ordering and it's easy to confuse the day, month and year completely (which is why I always use the full name for the Month, and the year in four digits – as per the title of this post), so it's good that, for one day of this year, I can throw caution to the wind and write the date anyway I want without any consequences. And to think, we only have two more years left of this, before we have to wait another another 89 years (think about it).

From my intro, you may have concluded that this was yet another quiet news week, hence the need to write gibberish. But there's actually a few things to go through, not much, but a few. So the gibberish was merely coincidental, and regular readers would surely have gotten used to the gibberish by now. So let's get started.

Copyright

Starting with copyright news, we'll start with what was very late news last week, in that the controversial ACTA has reached a basic agreement, and there has been more analysis since then about the new draft (final draft?) of this agreement.

TorrentFreak reckons that the new ACTA draft now tries shoves much less crap down our throats than what is was earlier, so I guess that's good news. Ah, I remember like it was yesterday when I first heard of the ACTA, about how custom officials were going to search through my iPod looking for pirated songs, that ISPs were going to be forced to monitor all of our Internet usage just in case we do something the RIAA/MPAA don't want us to do, and that the island of Manhattan was going to be closed and fenced off like a giant prison, with all the caught copyright infringers sent there to fend for themselves (this last part may not be true). It seems that the current version of the ACTA is very much a watered down version compared to previous drafts, and I guess that's one positive of global politics, is that things rarely get done when so many countries are involved. Hurray for petty political bickering.

But even without a global treaty forcing countries to take copyright control seriously by building giant island prisons, some countries are taking action anyway. France is a pioneer in this field. The country that gave us the French Revolution, has now been sold to the highest corporate bidder, in this case, the joint bid from the music and movie industries, and France's Three-Strikes revolution has started. In case you've been living in a cave, or have had your Internet disconnected because you pirated one episode too many of Desperate Housewives (in which case, you would already know all about Three-Strikes, so skip the next half a sentence or so), the Three-Strikes systems give copyright infringers three chances to clean up their act before their Internet is disconnected. The first of the strikes has been sent out by HADOPI, and so the experiment begins. Will piracy stop? Or will people simply start using sources of pirated content that HADOPI can't monitor? And if the piracy rate drops, will the music and movie (and software) industry make more money? Only time will tell, but I suspect the only real effect will be the increasing amounts of anger experienced by the Internet public.

Which explains why Operation Payback, 4chan/Anonymous's global Internet attacks on those perceived to be on the wrong side of the great copyright crusade. I haven't even kept track of all the organisations that Operation Payback has targeted, I think their most recent target was in Spain, but as they "group" has proclaimed, the attacks will continue until they're less angry, and things like Three-Strikes won't really help in this respect.

Getting caught in the cross-hairs in all of this is fair use. There are many reasons why copyright should be respected, and there are also many situations where protecting the public interest is more important than protecting "potential" profits for copyright holders. The Library of Congress' National Recording Preservation Board has made a passionate plea for changes to the copyright law so cultural preservation, particularly for audio recordings, isn't being hampered by copyright holders too protective over their content. Due to the various laws and amendments made to the copyright act, giving copyright holders ever increasing power and time to hold on to their content, many recordings made early last century are in danger of failing to be preserved because copyright holders aren't releasing content that clearly has no commercial value any more. Some recorded vaudeville performance, for example, are destined to be lost forever as greedy copyright holders refuse to release recordings to the public domain, despite there being no market for such content since the 1930's. It's easy to forget that copyright laws were invented to protect the public interest, as much as the rightsholders, which is why copyright do expires, so content can fall into public domain and be preserved forever. DRM, another invention of copyright holders, may be even more harmful than any laws that exist. It's very much unlikely any DRM protected content can be decoded in some distant future. We don't even have to imagine that far to see how dangerous DRM can be, people who purchased content from one of the many failed online music stores that used DRM will know exactly how hard it is to recover their purchases, even after just a couple of years. Luckily, most DRM measures are fairly ineffective, and so easily breakable, but that won't always be the case.

So with the copyright crusade taking many victims, what exactly are the rightsholders trying to achieve? This week, we had MPAA execs come out and explain their reasoning for fighting piracy. Apparently, even the MPAA is aware that piracy cannot be eliminated, saying that "Piracy has always been and will always be with us". You see, the MPAA's aim is only to reduce it so much so that they "can make enough revenue in a legitimate market to recoup expenses and continue to make new movies". You see, behind the record profits, movie studios appear to be struggling to bring out movies, because it's hard to even recoup expenses at times. The proof is right here if we look hard enough, I mean there hasn't been a Saw movie since 2009, and who is to say six Saw films is really enough? Of course, movies like Inception are the "Exceptions", it's a real struggle for a lot of movies to make back the money that went into making them. You see the reason is that, simply, most of the movies that Hollywood produces are, how do I put it, crap! In the past, when people couldn't just download crappy movies, they actually had to pay for a ticket before walking out in disgust twenty minutes in, and this meant a lot more movies were able to "recoup expenses" and so allow studios to  "continue to make new movies". And before people knew how to rip DVDs (that whole six month before people discovered you could break DVD's ineffectual CSS copy protection by simply breathing in its general direction), they may get tempted by the cover and buy the crappy movies, whereas now they can simply download it and delete it twenty minutes through in disgust, and hence provide no income at all to struggling studios, who are now forced to having to actually make good movies that people will want to pay to see, like The Dark Knight, Avatar and Inception. But Chris Nolan is only one guy, and who know when James Cameron will make another movie. So it's no surprise really that Uwe Boll's Far Cry was one for the first movies to get into the sue-for-settlement game, is it?

There must have been something in the water last week, because yet another victim of the piracy trade also came out to suggest that, maybe, piracy isn't the only reason for lost profits. Nintendo's CEO refused to blame piracy for lost Wii, DS sales, believing that good games will still sell regardless of piracy. Interesting. So people pay for good stuff, and pirate the not so good stuff? Who would have thunk it! The reality is that people who can't afford to buy will probably pirate, in which case no profit has been lost a result. There's only probably a very small minority that will always pirate, even if they can afford to pay. And so I think most of the revenue losses come from the fact that people are not buying things that are not worth the money being paid, and with so much good stuff out there competing for our hard earned dollar (even if it is worth less and less every day, if you're earning the US kind), buyers are a lot more picky. And piracy, rightly or wrongly, allows many to "sample" goods without having to feel cheated by paying for the full sticker price, and in most cases, the goods are as they suspected, not worth the money being asked for it. But producers will argue that without people buying the poor quality junk, then these purchases can't subsidize the cost of producing good quality stuff, and that's true. So some kind of balance has to be reached where perhaps producers can make the junk cheap enough to tempt us to go against our better judgement, while keeping the good stuff cheap enough so that not too many people fall into the "can't afford it, so must pirate it" category.

And an update on everyone's favourite newspaper copyright lawyers, Republican Senate candidate Sharron Angle is ready to settle her Righthaven lawsuit which alleged that she posted some newspaper's articles without permission somewhere. It's a shame, I was hoping for a real legal battle, but I guess in the middle of an election campaign, that was never likely to happen.

High Definition

In 3D/HD news, Iron Man 2 was released a short while ago and the figures suggest that it will be one of the best selling titles on Blu-ray ever, which is exactly what the format needed after a sluggish few weeks recently – the stats will be posted on Tuesday at the usual place.

For 3D lovers, there was some exciting news this week as Toshiba released its first glasses-free 3D TVs. If you've read my earlier blog post/FAQ about 3D, you shouldn't be too surprised about glasses-free 3D TVs, but as I mentioned before, there are a lot of drawbacks to this technology currently. For example, the Toshiba 3D TVs only allow 3D effects from nine fixed viewing positions – if none of these positions matches your sitting positions, then you can forget about the 3D effect. Now, new versions of the same technology is enabling greater number of viewing angles, I think I read somewhere one even offers 64 viewing positions, but for me, it's not so much finding a sweet spot, as staying there for the whole duration of the movie (and making sure you don't move your head too much). Of course for some, that may still be a better compromise than wearing dorky glasses.

Another problem, which the Toshiba releases make clear, is the cost of the technology. 3D effects rely on each eye seeing something different to trick our brains into thinking we're looking at something in 3D. Glasses work by quickly shuttering the LCD so that we're only seeing out of one eye at any one time (it's synced to the TV so that each eye is seeing that they're supposed to be seeing – all of this is done very quickly so we don't notice that we're really only seeing out of one eye), but the image we see out of each eye will be the full resolution of the TV. However, with these glasses-free TVs, it relies on barriers that block out different pixels on the TV depending on the angle of your vision (with each eye seeing something different, because of the different viewing angles). This blocking of pixels means that each eye is not seeing the full resolution of the TV, and so in order to created an HD image, more pixels are needed than what is normally required. For the larger Toshiba 20? 3D TV, four times the number of pixels of a 1080p TV was needed to create only a 720p picture (essentially, the panel is a 2160p one, if my maths is correct), and this is why this small TV costs nearly $3000. Not only is the panel expensive to produce, the processor needed to manage this many pixels also needs to be powerful (Toshiba uses their Cell technology, the same processors that power the PS3).

But you see the problem now though. If it ever becomes cheap enough to produce 2160p TVs to make  these 720p  glasses-free 3D TVs affordable, then people will start to want 2160p 3D (or at the very least, 1080p 3D), which would already be possible then with 3D glasses. This, plus the viewing angle problem, means that there's still a lot of development needed for this technology. Although the smaller 12? model would definitely make a very cool digital photo frame.

Gaming

And half way lodged between movies and gaming, PS3's Netflix will go disc free this month, with the PS3 Netflix app soon to be available meaning users of Netflix no longer has to insert the what must now be very worn Blu-ray disc into their PS3s to access Netflix's streaming service (as CrunchGear noted, it's extremely ironic that an online streaming service still required a disc to work).

And for those with money to burn in this economy, you can now pay Best Buy to upgrade your PS3's firmware. For $30, Best Buy's Geek Squad will press left on the PS3 controller until the "Settings" icon is highlighted, go down to "System Updates" option and press "X" for you. I know the US dollar worth less than the paper its printed on these days, but $30 is still $30. Yes, a firmware update is a bit more complicated than just pressing a bunch of buttons  (but not much though), since you do need the PS3 to be connected online first, but I suppose people that want PS3s will probably know how to do that already. In any case, those buying PS3s as gifts for others may not know what the deal is, and so may pay for this just to have peace of mind, and I think that's probably the demographic Best Guy is going for. It is funny though reading through the list of "benefits" you get for your $30 – I mean, you'd be crazy to not want the "system runs smoother" functionality. Joking aside though, if PS3 firmware updates are breaking the Blu-ray drive as some have claimed (or launched a class action lawsuit for), then maybe paying $30 isn't such a bad idea if Best Buy covers the cost of whatever happens due to a bad update (ie. the $150 Sony charges to fix the PS3 if something did go wrong).

Alright then, that's it for this week.  I have it on good authority that, yes, there will be new events occurring  next week in which an article will be written and published to inform the general public, and thus creating something called "news". And I shall do my best not to skip over the really important ones due to sheer incompetence and/or laziness. Have a good one.

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3. Weekly Software Roundup

October 10, 2010  WinMPG Video Convert 9.1.7
October 10, 2010  Windows 7 Codecs 2.6.5 Freeware
October 10, 2010  Vista Codec x64 Components 2.6.9 Freeware
October 10, 2010  CCCP 2010-10-06 beta Freeware
October 10, 2010  HDPVR Capture 2.8.0 Mac OS Freeware
October 9, 2010  K-Lite Video Conversion Pack 1.8.0 Freeware
October 9, 2010  Photodex ProShow Producer 4.5.2949
October 9, 2010  Photodex ProShow Gold 4.5.2949
October 9, 2010  ProgDVB 6.48.2 Freeware
October 8, 2010  Media Player Classic HomeCinema Edition 1.4.2667 Beta Freeware
October 8, 2010  SPlayer 3.5 Build 1552 Beta Freeware
October 8, 2010  Comskip 0.80.035
October 8, 2010  mkv avi to mp4 1.0.8 Freeware Added in  the last 3 days
October 8, 2010  VideoCacheView 1.80 Freeware
October 8, 2010  Preferred Filter Tweaker for Windows 7 3.7 Freeware
October 8, 2010  ffdshow Rev. 3611 (generic/x64) Freeware
October 8, 2010  VSO PhotoDVD 4.0.0.37
October 8, 2010  BD Rebuilder 0.35.01 Beta Freeware
October 8, 2010  GOM Encoder 1.0.0.39
October 7, 2010  DVBViewer 4.5
October 7, 2010  MKVtools 2.4.1 Mac  OS Freeware
October 6, 2010  Miro 3.5.0 RC2 Linux/Unix Mac OS Windows Freeware
October 5, 2010  madVR 0.34 Freeware
October 5, 2010  Mobile Media Converter 1.7.0 Linux/Unix Windows Freeware
October 5, 2010  Subtitle Edit 3.0 Beta 2 Freeware
October 5, 2010  PS3 Media Server 1.20 r412 Beta Linux/Unix Mac OS Windows Freeware
October 5, 2010  Andy's FLV Join 0.5 Freeware
October 5, 2010  PlayClaw 2.0.0 build 1193
October 4, 2010  VOBMerge 2.55 Unofficial Freeware
October 4, 2010  Vista Codec Package 5.8.3 Freeware
October 4, 2010  XMedia Recode 2.2.7.7 Freeware
October 4, 2010  MPEG-2 Transport Stream packet analyser 2.2.0.3 Freeware
October 4, 2010  K-Lite Codec Pack 6.4.4 Update Freeware
October 4, 2010  RipBot264 1.16.3 Freeware
October 4, 2010  CDBurnerXP 4.3.7.2423 Freeware
October 4, 2010  PopCorn MKV AudioConverter 1.83.1 Freeware
October 4, 2010  PlayOn 3.0.22.1228


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