Seven out of the 10 most pirated films this week are not legally available for digital purchase in Australia, according to a new website by Electronic Frontiers Australia.
Transcript [Editor’s note: The MPAA and most media companies argue that you can’t legally copy or convert commercial DVDs or Blu-ray discs for any reason. We (and others) think that, if you own one of these discs, you should be able to override its copy protection to make a backup copy or to convert its content for viewing on other devices.
The film industry has declared Australian success for its play to keep DVD and Blu-ray sales alive amid a surge in legal and illegal digital watching.
Commentary: As much as the movie studios would like the opposite to be true, 3D movies are handicapping the theater-going experience and there’s almost never a time you should pay extra for it.
At peak times, Netflix accounts for around a third of the consumer Internet traffic in North America. This week, one of its senior engineers described how it gets all those movies to your screen.
If you’ve popped down the shops and bought a Blu-ray or DVD movie recently you’ll have noticed that many of the discs you can buy now sport something called UltraViolet Digital Copy — a free version of the movie that enables you to watch it on your Mac, iPad or iPhone without falling foul of the copyright police.
The Sony BDP-S3200 will play your Blu-rays just fine but it’s not quite as up-to-date as competitors especially when it comes to streaming media.
Disney aficionados—and, really, movie buffs in general—can now have instant access to a large number of titles in Disney’s library with a new cloud-based service, Disney Movies Anywhere .
Reader Jon Nunes has old movies and a new operating system that don’t see eye to eye. He writes: I have a lot of old .avi movies from the days when I was using a Windows PC.
This week’s DVD and Blu-ray releases offers mostly newer titles, but there’s a Criterion release, and one of the best picture nominees, and some turkeys (literally, there’s a film about turkeys).