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Enough said. Originally posted on Friday, 2006-11-17 at 14:16:45.

According to an article I've just read on Slashdot, at least 315 of MGM's so-called "widescreen" DVD releases have actually been the Pan & Scan versions with the top and bottom of the picture cut off. This basically means, when you buy the widescreen version ...

From: Dragos Ruiu To: bugtraq@securityfocus.com Subject: Caveat Lector: Beastie Boys Evil Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 01:10:23 Well I truly regret actually purchasing a copy of the new Beastie Boys album to support them. It seems that Capitol Records has...

Undergrads, one of the best animated shows ever, in my opinion, has finally come out on DVD, but guess what? It's not available in Canada yet. Sure I could order it on Amazon, but I think I'll wait. The rips are coming out online (I've got 6 episodes), so I...

I'm usually not one to go for the novelty CDRs, but these ones from Verbatim are particularly cool. They depart from the standard burnable disc in the way that they look like old-style vinyl 45 RPM singles. They're probably twice the price of standard CDRs, ...

...if you bought the Buffy Season 2 DVD set. With tax and everything taken into account, I got back $9.20 just because I happened to notice that it had dropped in price. Thanks to Futureshop's 30 day price protection guarantee, and the fact that they keep al...

On Amazon.com's DVD best seller list the widescreen versions of both Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's (Philosopher's) Stone and Ocean's 11 are outselling their pan & scan counterparts. Whether this is intelligence being displayed on the part of the consumers o...

I gain more respect for Roger Ebert every day. Here is an intelligently written commentary on the state of internet music sharing and how it relates to the music industry. He talks about Universal's new CD copy-protection scheme that will render CDs unplayab...

I'm sure many people have seen this on Slashdot, but I think this needs as much exposure as it can get. Here is a PDF describing the atrocity. Basically we're looking at $1.23 for all CD-RWs, $2.27 for all DVD-Rs, and a completely ridiculous $21/Gig tax on...

DVD Forum's Steering Committee voted this week to approve the use of low-bit-rate compression for high-definition DVD. The DVD Forum's decision, made at a meeting on Feb. 26 in Tokyo, to stick with a red-laser-based scheme but switch to low-bit-rate compressio...

From a press release on matsushita.co.jp: Nine leading companies today announced that they have jointly established the basic specifications for a next generation large capacity optical disc video recording format called "Blu-ray Disc". The Blu-ray Disc ena...

An article on DVDToons.com talks about some information released from Rhino Video concerning the upcoming release of season 1 of the old hardcore 80's cartoon, The Transformers. The set is scheduled for an April 23rd release and contains completely digitall...

A brand new version of Steve's DVD Forum, a web application to help catalog your DVDs and borrow movies that you'd like to watch, is now online. It also lets you see, at a glance, to whom you have lent DVDs and from whom you've borrowed them as well. Ver...

Phillips has come out and said that they (as the patent holders on the Compact Disc format) do not recognize the copy-protected CDs that some of the major record labels are putting out as legitiment CDs because they do not adhere to the Compact Disc standard. ...

While implementing their "copy protection" scheme for music CDs, Universal Music will be simultaneously rendering most DVD players, car stereos, and computers unable to play their wares. It's quite silly, in a way: If I can't play music on my DVD player, in ...

This is something I really don't understand. Amazon.com is selling two versions of How the Grinch Stole Christmas: one in pan & scan and the other in widescreen. It's no secret that I, as the anal-retentive bastard I am when it comes to video and audio, p...

Proud owners of Microsoft's new Windows XP operating system may find that they can't play one of the hottest DVDs of the holiday season on their computers: Disney's re-release of its classic film, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs." Original story: http://...

I have a bad feeling about this... Original: Originally posted on Saturday, 2001-10-20 at 20:36:55.

Steve's DVD Forum version 2.0 is now up and running. Hopefully, most people won't even notice the difference, except of course that it's faster :) Version 2.0 is completely rewritten in PHP (instead of Perl) and uses a database back end (instead of text fi...