Bytes in the Margin

I may have to promote the Wii back up from its basement exile, and maybe cut back our Netflix plan a bit.  

I just read Easy, Efficient Hi-Def Video Playback, and after reading through all the "Convenient" steps required to rip and watch a movie, I'm left shaking my head.  This is more convenient than putting a disc into a player?  You also lose DVD chapters and menus this way, so good luck watching part of a movie ...

I didn't miss the boat on Dr. Horrible, I just haven't gotten around to blogging about it. If you missed it when it was free, you can get all 3 episodes on iTunes for just 4 dollars. You can't beat that deal for your entertainment dollar. I highly recommend it, if you like any combination of ...

For a while now, digital cameras have been able to record movies along with just taking photographs.  Camera vendors use different video codecs to compress and save the video you take.  Common codecs include one of Apple's quicktime codecs (usually saved as a .mov file) and a variety of codecs with the .avi extension.  AVI files ...

Information week links to a report from the Computer and Communications Industry Association calculating that Fair Use exceptions in the US account for $4.5 trillion in annual revenue.  They also calculate that the fair  use economy is greater than the copyright economy.  Given the source of the study, its hard to believe it at face value, ...