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Real ready to fight Hollywood

Real Networks, which long tried to make a business by cooperating with labels and studios, has finally realized the only way for them to succeed is to play the "people" card. Hence, Real's RealDVD program, a $30 DVD ripper. Real is willing to push back on Hollywood...

Tags: Hollywood, NYT, DVD Association, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-09-09

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Real appeals injunction against RealDVD; says judge erred

Real has filed an appeal in its legal battle with the Motion Picture Association of America, arguing that a judge erred when she agreed to a preliminary injunction to halt sales of a DVD-copying program called RealDVD. In legal documents filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals...

Tags: Software, Preliminary Injunction, CD, Apple iTunes, RealDVD, Piracy, Digital Music, Sales Strategy, Digital Media, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Personal Technology, Sales, Consumer Electronics, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-11-11

Court upholds RealDVD injunction; supports outdated laws and Hollywood business model

I have to admit that I am blown away by a judge's decision to grant a preliminary injunction on sales of RealDVD, RealNetworks' controversial software that allows consumers to rip DVD movies into a computer much the same way that CDs can be ripped. Even though I...

Tags: Consumer, Software, RealDVD, Tools & Techniques, Digital Rights Management (DRM), DVD, Consumer Electronics, Management, Security, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-08-12

Opt Me Out! The United States Postal Service Needs an Overhaul

The volume of physical spam I receive, aka junk mail, is now becoming an absolutely intolerable situation. Nothing less than a complete overhaul of the entire US Postal Service is in order. My friend and colleague David Strom, over at his site Strominator.com,...

Tags: NetFlix Inc., U.S. Postal Service, Web Site Development, Cyberthreats, Web Technology, Spam, Internet, Security, Spam And Phishing, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-08-10

Toshiba to join Blu-ray club

Toshiba said Monday it is planning a lineup of products that support the Blu-ray storage format. Toshiba was one of the leading companies behind HD DVD, a standard that lost to Blu-ray. In a statement, Toshiba said that it will provide "a wide range of advanced digital...

Tags: Blu-ray, Toshiba Corp., Hd Dvd, Corporate Communications, DVD, Storage, Consumer Electronics, Retail, Game Players, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Marketing, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-08-10

MPAA vs. Real: Five reasons why Hollywood will win

MPAA vs. Real: Five reasons why Hollywood will winHere are five reasonsmoney, money, money, money and more moneyThat why we have Blu-RayHarder to rip and you need a 50gb disc. They lost on the DVD front."Confident" not "confidant"Sorry for being a bit anal here, but the word you wanted towards...

Tags: Consumer electronics, MPAA, DVD

Discussion threads 2009-05-18

Real files antitrust countersuit against Hollywood's "illegal cartel"

Real files antitrust countersuit against Hollywood's "illegal cartel"AmazingAs much a I loathe virtually every application coded by RealNetworks, this has got to be the one case where I'm actually completely behind them. We need the slippery slope to start sliding in the favor of the consumer.Ironically enough, the way I...

Tags: DVD, files antitrust, RealDVD

Discussion threads 2009-05-13

Real files antitrust countersuit against Hollywood's "illegal cartel"

Real Networks has turned the tables on Hollywood movie studios, filing a countersuit in U.S. District Court today that accuses the studios of violating antitrust laws by collaborating to form an "illegal cartel" that's trying to monopolize the DVD market. PDF The countersuit accuses the DVD Copy...

Tags: Antitrust, Studio, Real, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-05-13

Are Amazon and Real one-upping Apple?

Twice this week, I've engaged in conversations about Apple missing the boat on potentially sweet markets that would have fit right into its iTunes growth strategy. The first conversation came after the release of the Kindle-DX, which apparently has a pretty healthy legion of fans who are...

Tags: Apple Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Apple TV, Apple iTunes, DVD, E-books, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-05-08

RealDVD hearing: Don't block the software because of what-ifs

RealDVD hearing: Don't block the software because of what-ifsMPAA's moot point[i]The Motion Picture Association of America alleges that RealNetworks - which makes the software - is trying to circumvent copyright protection technology on DVDs, using [b]its own protections that would impose limitations and restrictions but could be altered or removed...

Tags: CSS, Tools & Techniques, Digital media, RealDVD, MPAA, software, DVD

Discussion threads 2009-04-28

RealDVD hearing: Don't block the software because of what-ifs

If I could be be punished for the things I could do - instead of what I actually do - I would been behind bars years ago. Hollywood movies studios are trying to punish RealNetworks for something that its software could do, not what it actually does,...

Tags: Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-04-28

Can 3D save Blu-ray?

Blu-ray's problem is simple: Blu-ray's crisper picture isn't enough for recession-whacked consumers. Yet the demo I saw last week in Las Vegas was something else: beautifully detailed and very watchable high def 3D. That's a change you'd pay for. Panasonic is pushing hard. ...

Tags: 3D, Blu-ray, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2009-04-27

Pirate Bay judge is member of Copyright Association

Pirate Bay judge is member of Copyright Associationthat judge is a joke redo the whole processWith some one impartial and honest.This whole thing is farce is should be seen as is ...... there no legal ground when you judge is before its start already sold to one...

Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), Pirate Bay, Copyright Association, RIAA

Discussion threads 2009-04-23

Want a tech gadget bargain? Get it now, or you'll be too late

Bargains on new technology, gadgets and gizmos -- from laptops and desktops to HDTVs and Blu-ray players and even digital cameras and camcorders -- have been plentiful in the shadow of the global downturn. For example: A 10-inch Acer Aspire One netbook, just $320!...

Tags: Smart Phone, HDTV, Price, Component Price, Smart Phones, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-03-16

Welcome to the Consumer Electronics Show. Sales Are Flatlining.

The semi-annual forecast of industry sales for consumer electronics makers just came out. And the projection is that, despite the transition to digital TV and lust for portable electronics of all types, sales are going down this year. Not by much. Percentage-wise,...

Tags: Consumer Electronics Association, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-01-08

If iRecord can rip DVDs, why can't Real?

If I were one of the lawyers for Real Networks, I'd be looking a bit closer at a device called iRecord, which is being showcased this week at Macworld. iRecord basically allows you to take video and audio clips from any source - cable/satellite, DVR, Video game...

Tags: Lawsuit, Lawyer, Video, iRecord, RealDVD, Corporate Communications, Productivity, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Marketing, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-01-07

Blu-ray is dead: the sequel

Bill Hunt, Blu-ray defender? Over on The Digital Bits blogger Bill Hunt rebukes me for calling Blu-ray dead. Then he goes on to agree with almost everything I said - except for the conclusion. With friends like that, Blu-ray doesn't need me! Industry...

Tags: HD, Storage Price, Blu-Ray, Corporate Communications, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Marketing, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-10-31

Blu-ray is dead - heckuva job, Sony!

Blu-ray is in a death spiral. 12 months from now Blu-ray will be a videophile niche, not a mass market product. With only a 4% share of US movie disc sales and HD download capability arriving, the Blu-ray disc Association BDA is still smoking dope. Even $150...

Tags: Job, Sony Corp., Time Warner Inc., Blu-ray Disc, Blu-ray Disc Association, Blu-Ray, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-10-28

Jobs: â€ÂœBlu-ray is just a bag of hurtâ€Â�

Jobs: â€ÂœBlu-ray is just a bag of hurtâ€Â�I get the feeling that Apple is worried thatif they placed a Blu-Ray disc into the unit that it would cut down on rentals thru iTunes.In that case it would appear that Blu-Ray has little need of Apple.Care to back that up?[i]I get...

Tags: Blu-ray, DVD, Consumer electronics, Digital media, job, Apple Inc., Blu-ray disc

Discussion threads 2008-10-14

VIDEO: iTunes, mp3 rippers paved the way for RealDVD

There's another legal showdown brewing between Hollywood and the techies. RealNetworks and the motion picture studios are headed off to court over RealDVD, just-released software that allows users to rip their personal DVD collections into a PC or portable hard drive. Yeah, just like everyone's been doing with music CDs...

Tags: Rip, CD, Video, MP3, Apple iTunes, Music, RealDVD, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-02