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"Within three years it will just be Blu-ray," Frank Simonis, the Blu-ray Disc Association's European chairman, said at the CeBIT technology trade show.

So,Whats so special about Blu-ray ? - Blu-ray offers five times more storage capacity than DVDs for storing high definition films and other content.

Blu-ray is already well ahead of HD DVD because Sony's PlayStation 3 (PS3) video games console comes with a built-in Blu-ray player.

Facts :

- Five out of eight major Hollywood studios support only Blu-ray. One studio, Universal, supports only HD DVD.

- Toshiba and Microsoft, are the two main backers of HD DVD, support film studios and production houses to bring out their films on HD DVD .

But the war between HD DVD and Blu-ray—also supported by companies like Samsung, Philips, Matsushita, Apple, and Dell—has curbed adoption.

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Compressing and encoding High Quality Video Using Vdub:

We have recorded the video at 6 Mbits (6000Kbps). With the help of DivX we can compress it to 1500kbps without affecting quality.

1. Remember to keep the settings we kept for TV Caps. For compressing High quality Videos u can use either DivX or Xvid codec. I prefer Divx as we are dealing with TV recorded Videos which need more workout. 

2. Go to Video > Compression > Select DivX > Click Configure.

 

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Microsoft always says it opposes "software pirates" who sell thousands of unauthorized copies of Windows.

A security expert says Windows Vista can be run for at least a year without being activated, but Microsoft calls the process an antipiracy 'hack'.

Windows Vista can be run for at least a year without being activated, a serious end run around one of Microsoft's key antipiracy measures, Windows expert Brian Livingston said Thursday.

Livingston, who publishes the Windows Secret newsletter, said that a single change to Vista's registry lets users put off the operating system's product activation requirement an additional eight times beyond the three disclosed last month. With more research, said Livingston, it may even be possible to find a way to postpone activation indefinitely.

"The [activation] demands that Vista puts on corporate buyers is much more than on XP," said Livingston. "Vista developers have [apparently] programmed in back doors to get around time restrictions for Vista activation."

Brian Livingston describes the Registry key that's involved and the steps :

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Have you lost your data due to accidental deletion, corruption, or computer virus or trojan attack? Then here is a list of excellent FREE Hard Disk Recovery Utilities for your rescue.

- PC Inspector File Recovery : Recover lost data–even if your older system's FAT or boot sector is damaged.Complete Freeware.

License Type: Free /  Price: Free /  File Size: 5830KB

Recovers files, even when a header entry is no longer available. Competition products cannot recover such files. The "Special Recovery Function" supports the following disk Formats:ARJ,AVI,BMP,CDR,DOC,DXF,DBF,XLS,EXE,GIF,HLP,HTML,HTM,JPG,LZH,MID,MOV,MP3,

PDF,PNG,RTF,TAR,TIF,WAV,ZIP.

- Restoration : Recover deleted files–or delete them for good–with this small program.

License Type: Free / Price: Free / File Size: 163KB

Restoration is an easy to use and straight forward tool to undelete files that were removed from the recycle bin or directly deleted from within Windows, and we were also able to recover photos from a Flash card that had been formatted.