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Earlier this year, we reported that the DVD CCA had lost their court case against Kaleidescape. According to PC World, the group has responded by proposing a new amendment to the CSS licensing agreement. If approved, the amendment would make all DVD backups illegal.
The amendment is currently being considered by the Content Protection Advisory Council (CPAC) of the DVD CCA. If enacted, it would become binding in 18 months from the date on which the CCA notified its licensees, which include DVD hardware and software manufacturers.

The terms of the amendment, formally referred to as the "Unknown Specification Amendment," are just a paragraph long, and would basically eliminate DVD copying of any form, whether for the purposes of fair use or not.

The amendment reads:

"6.4. Certain Requirements for DVD Products. DVD Products, alone or in combination with other DVD Products, shall not be designed to descramble scrambled CSS Data when the DVD Disc containing such CSS Data and associated CSS Keys is not physically present in the DVD Player or DVD Drive (as applicable), and a DVD Product shall not be designed to make or direct the making of a persistent copy of CSS Data that has been descrambled from such DVD Disc by such DVD Product."
The DVD CCA needs to realize that CSS is worthless as a form of DRM. Amendments like this will do little to prevent consumers from making backups and will only put companies like Kaleidescape out of business. Then again, that might be the whole point of this amendment. If you'd like to read more, the entire article can be found here. Add a comment

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Today, CDRLabs brings you an in depth look at LG's latest "Super-Multi" drive, the GSA-H55L. This highly anticipated drive features some of the fastest reading and writing speeds available. The GSA-H55L is capable of 20x DVD±R, 10x DVD±R DL, 8x DVD+RW, 6x DVD-RW and 12x DVD-RAM writing speeds and has a maximum DVD read speed of 16x. LG's new drive also offers a number of features, including support for technologies like LightScribe and SecurDisc.

In this review we'll take a look at some of the features found on the GSA-H55L and see how it compares to some of the 18x and 20x DVD±RW drives from the competition. Does LG's new "Super-Multi" drive have what it takes? Is it the fastest DVD writer around? You'll have to read the review to find out.


LG GSA-H55L 20x Super-Multi DVD±RW/RAM
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If you've tried to play Blu-ray or HD DVD movies on your computer, you've probably found that you need a relatively high end system. Broadcom is hoping to change this with their new media PC solutions. Available as an addin card or motherboard chipset, these solutions enable flawless HD video playback on a wide range of PCs, include those with integrated graphics chipsets.
Broadcom Corporation (Nasdaq: BRCM), a global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, today announced new media PC solutions that enable flawless playback of high definition (HD) video content across the widest range of PCs in the industry. By lowering CPU utilization, and integrating seamlessly into Microsoft Windows Vista and Windows XP environments, Broadcom's media PC solutions enable mainstream PCs featuring integrated graphics to play back high definition content from either a Blu-ray Disc or HD DVD, as well as from HD downloaded or broadcast content. The new Broadcom media PC solutions are available in three add-in card formats (including desktop PCI Express, PCI Express mini-card or ExpressCard 34), and as a chipset solution for PC motherboard applications.
Broadcom's media PC solutions are in full production today and are priced at less than $40 each. More information can be found here. Add a comment
Here's an interesting bit of news. At a recent news conference, Senior Vice President, Hisatsugu Nonaka, stated that Toshiba will be putting HD DVD drives in all of their laptops next year.
Japan's Toshiba Corp. aims to put disk drives for high-definition DVDs on all its laptops next year as it strives to gain an edge in the high-stakes next-generation DVD format battle, a Toshiba executive said on Tuesday.

Sony Corp. equips its PlayStation 3 (PS3) game consoles with Blu-ray drives to win people to the rival high-definition DVD format, and Toshiba should use a similar tactic, said Toshiba Senior Vice President Hisatsugu Nonaka.

"The demand is there: people want to watch their favorite movies in high-definition on the road," he told reporters at a news conference.
While this will definitely get more HD DVD drives out there, it will probably raise the overall cost of the laptop. As we've seen with the PS3, this is not the way to win over consumers. If you'd like to read more, the entire article can be found here. Add a comment

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