June 7, 1975: Before Digital, Before VHS ... There Was Betamax
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Sony's video technology was probably superior to VHS, but the Betamax machine was hard to use and the tapes were too short to record movies.
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The video compact disc (VCD) player was a spectacular breakthrough in the history of China&#39;s electronics industry. The device, first invented by the Chinese firm Wanyan Electronics
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If you'd like to archive all of yesterday's footage to DVD before your VCR dies, Sony's DVDirect offers an easy, relatively affordable solution.
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The Atari 2600 Video Computer System (VCS), introduced in 1977, was the most popular home video game system of the early 1980's.  Stella is a multi-platform Atari 2600 VCS emulator.  It allows you to play all of your favorite Atari 2600 games again! This is the 1.4.1 release of Stella for Linux, Mac OSX and Windows.  Distributions for other operating systems will appear as they become available.   Stella was originally developed for Linux by Bradford W. Mott, however, it has been ported to a number of other platforms.   The distributions currently available are:    * Binary distribution in RPM format for Linux (stella-1.4.1-1.i586.rpm)    * Binary distribution for Mac OSX (StellaOSX1.4.1.dmg.gz)    * Binary distribution for Windows (stella-1.4.1-win32.zip)    * Source code distribution for Linux, Mac OSX and Windows (stella-1.4.1-src.tar.gz)    * Source code in SRPM format for Linux RPM-based systems (stella-1.4.1-1.src.rpm)  PLEASE DO NOT WRITE ASKING FOR ROM IMAGES TO USE WITH STELLA! ALL SUCH REQUESTS WILL BE IGNORED!  New in this Release ===================    * Fixed PAL sound issues.  PAL games now should sound correct (no distortion     or missing sounds), but some games may still run too fast.  This is still     a work-in-progress, and will be fixed in Stella 1.5.    * Cleaned up the SDL event gathering loop.  This should hopefully fix the     problems with "double-pumping events" reported by some Windows users.     Event gathering and dispatching is now much faster as well.    * Fixed a bug where the Control or Alt keys could be assigned to some event,     but they could never be used.  Control/Alt can now be used for any event.    * Updated stella.pro file to work with the latest Good2600 ROMset release     (Thanks go to Voch for helping to maintain the stella.pro file).    * For the Windows port; removed requirement for ROM files to be named *.bin     in the StellaX frontend.  The ROM's can now have any name, but ZIP-files are     not yet supported.    * For the Windows port; fixed the problems with the included modified SDL     library and Windows 98 users.  Stella should now run in Windows 98.    * For the OSX port; added preference to allow user to select the directory     in which ROM images are stored.  This sets the default directory to start     the browsing for a ROM in, and doesn't preclude the user from selecting a     file outside that directory.    * For the OSX port; fixed preferences bug where Preferences changed before     a game was opened were not being saved.
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Internet video is sneaking up on us. That became clear last week in Las Vegas, where all sorts of firms announced new Internet video services at the 2005 Consumer Electronics Show.
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Itâs been a good year for old-movie buffs. The DVD industry continued to mature in 2007; diminishing returns on newly produced films led both the big studios and the boutique labels back to the archives. Rapid advances in digital restoration techniques and a concerted attempt to return to original release material produced some amazingly handsome new versions of familiar films (âThe Jazz Singer,â âNosferatuâ), as well as neglected gems (âKiller of Sheep,â âTrue Heart Susieâ).
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Coupons days are here for owners of outdated analog televisions.
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IT is official - the VHS home video format will share the fate of its one-time competitor Betamax and go the way of the dinosaur. All over the world, Video Home System - which lets people record and watch
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ONCE seen as the cutting edge of technology which would change the way we watch television, the video recorder has been usurped by another revolution in home entertainment, the DVD machine.
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It may not be exactly possible for high-definition discs to pick up where their lofty goals of 2005 left off. Transmission technology has evolved very rapidly during that time, partly due to the format war's very existence.
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Sony has long been of the mindset that they can develop media formats (ie Betamax) which are superior to ones already in the marketplace.
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Blue-laser disc format's standard adopts new video codecs.
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We found you a great discount on a gadget that converts your old tapes into digital format.
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Tomorrow I'll be making 3 phone calls to Congressperson Nancy Pelosi, John Conyers and Senator Thomas Daschle to convince them that the INDUCE act should not pass.  This is of course in support of the Save the Betamax campaign  designed to stop Hollywood in their tracks.  "The short version: We're organizing a call-in day to Congress on September 14 to oppose new legislation that would undermine the Betamax decision (INDUCE Act)."  "Here's why: The Betamax VCR died more than 15 years ago, but the Supreme Court decision that made the Betamax and all other VCRs legal lived on. In Sony vs. Universal (known as the Betamax decision) the Court ruled that because VCRs have legitimate uses, the tech ...
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The Blu-ray Disc Association has added the MPEG-4 AVC and VC-1 video codecs to its specification for prerecorded Blu-ray Disc media, it says this week.
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Nikon leads SLR market in Japan...gaming the Creative Commons...new geotagging tech...30-minute Olympus E-3 video...Ubuntu Hardy Heron Alpha 3...Microsoft Popfly video humor
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Hot on the heels of Toshiba managing to create a dual format HD-DVD/DVD disc (see our previous coverage), JVC has created a Blu-Ray/DVD combo ROM disc.