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DVD copy warnings, movie studio paranoia, and the effort to turn customers into criminals Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

I think somebody should manufacture a dvd player that will actually allow you to fast-forward through all the garbage that movie studios put at the beginning of their DVDs. That would be a great dvd player. It could be called the "Total Control dvd player." If anybody ever comes up with a product like that, please let me know. I'd like to publicize it.

Review of Archos 705 WiFi Digital Video Recorder and Player Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

If you're looking for something to take with you to the gym and watch while you work out, your best bet right now is probably a portable dvd player (which also happens to be a whole lot cheaper than the Archos device). While the Archos 705 makes a great effort to be a truly outstanding digital video recorder and playback device, it falls flat on both counts. I give it one star, and that's for the great screen resolution and brightness. It's something you'll really come to appreciate as you're repeatedly watching the reboot sequence.

Movie review: Idiocracy starring Luke Wilson, directed by Mike Judge Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

People who buy the $29 warranty plan on a $150 dvd player at Best Buy. People who buy the car rental insurance coverage at $10 / day even though they already have insurance. People who habitually play the state lottery and characterize it as an "investment plan." People who have a $50 deductible on their car insurance because they can't afford more than $50 out of pocket if there's an accident. People who think vitamins are too expensive but pharmaceuticals are a bargain because they get a 10 percent discount on some hare-brained Medicare plan.

Media giants want to criminalize personal copying of movie DVDs to portable electronic devices Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

That way I can buy movies like "Oceans Eleven," which I think is a great film, and I can watch "Oceans Eleven" on my home dvd player or take it with me on a PSP or an iRiver, PMP, or other portable media device. If I ever sell that movie on DVD, I will delete those files. That's the honest way to handle it as a consumer. I'm supporting the movie studios by buying the DVDs, but I'm also allowing myself to be able to watch that DVD on a number of different devices that I own.

DVD copy warnings, movie studio paranoia, and the effort to turn customers into criminals Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

If I watch half a movie and eject it from the dvd player and then later want to watch it again, I have to see the same FBI warning again, and you can't fast-forward through it, either. (DVD players actually give viewers less control than VCRs!) By the way, in case you ever wanted to know what the FBI warning looks like in French, that is included in every DVD as well, and only God knows why. Maybe the French have a problem with piracy.

Some DVDs even force you to watch previews because they disable the fast-forward functions on your dvd player. I think that's absurd. One thing I liked about the old VHS tapes is that if you wanted to skip the warnings, you just hit fast-forward and they're over and done with. If you stop watching a movie on an old VHS player, and eject the tape, it just starts where it left off when you put it back in. What a great concept. Some DVD players attempt to do that these days, but most don't, so you're forced to watch the intro and the FBI threat time after time.

That would be a great dvd player. It could be called the "Total Control dvd player." If anybody ever comes up with a product like that, please let me know. I'd like to publicize it.

Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power Mark Schapiro See book keywords and concepts

It's fair to say that their fingerprints, or those of their colleagues, are somewhere inside the workings of your computer, your dvd player, your video-game consoles, or any number of dozens of other consumer and medical electronic devices. They are the brains behind many of the crown jewels of American ingenuity and entrepreneurship.

It is easy for Kirschener to look at, say, a radio or a dvd player, or something far more complicated like a kidney-dialysis machine, and imagine its insides, the wires and the chips loaded with electrical information that make it work. He's far more accustomed to the dry traffic patterns of electrical impulses than the intersections between business and geopolitics. But it was the latter that was catching up with the former—as it was across an array of American businesses.

Toxic Childhood: How the Modern World is Damaging Our Children and What We Can Do About it Sue Palmer See book keywords and concepts

A recent survey of 1,200 children in England found that 'a large - and rapidly growing - number of children as young as five and six now have a whole array of technology, such as their own dvd player, video recorder and MP3 player'. In Japan, where lack of space means privacy is more difficult to come by, you can now purchase MyRoom, a translucent soundproof booth to install in a corner of the living room, creating a miniature virtual world for a single family member.

Ryu Murakami, novelist and film director, has pointed out the almost certain connection between hikikomori and 'gizmos like the new Sony PlayStation, which comes equipped with an Internet terminology and a dvd player ... [and] inevitably fixes people in their individual space'. But national anxiety about the phenomenon has not in any way dimmed enthusiasm for virtual existence. Psychiatrist Satoru Saito, who researches the condition, relates it to a more general withdrawal into social isolation: 'I fear Japan itself is becoming hikikomori. It is a nation that does not like to communicate.

Review of Sony DVDirect: A standalone DVD burner and video capture device that works flawlessly Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

With all of these options, you can burn a DVD with this device from almost any imaginable source, including a video camera, a VHS player or another dvd player. You can use it to make DVD copies of your home videos directly from your camera or VHS, make DVDs of VHS movies that you may have purchased before DVD, or even to make temporary copies of feature movies that you own for traveling or other personal purposes. There are some anti-piracy issues that I will discuss here, but first let's take a look at whether this DVDirect product really does what it promises to do.

Recompression means a slight loss in image quality There are even some quality issues when you're copying DVD to DVD, because your dvd player is decrypting the DVD video stream and converting it into an analog signal that goes out through the super VHS cable. This cable then pipes the analog signal back into the DVDirect device, where that analog signal is reconverted into a digital signal and then burned to DVD. During this process, there is a slight loss of quality, so obviously your original DVD is going to have a higher quality playback than a copy DVD.

DVD copy warnings, movie studio paranoia, and the effort to turn customers into criminals Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

It could be called the "Total Control dvd player." If anybody ever comes up with a product like that, please let me know. I'd like to publicize it.

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