DVD DIGEST - LIVE UPDATE Issue 11 

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DVD DIGEST | LIVE UPDATE Issue 11
What's new at DVD DIGEST ? 
Tuesday, 1st February, 2000 

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TOP NEWS SUMMARY : 

1. Digital Digest's Forums

2. DeCSS court trial coverage - latest update

3. What's new at DVD Digest Downloads ?
	- Software players :
		- A new version of PowerDVD 2.5.5 (retail release)
	- Encoding utilities : 
		- AC3-Decoder 0.811
		- V-Strip 0.4
	- Subtitling utilities :
		- DVD Subtitler  
		- SubMagic 1.0  
		- SubViewer 1.85  
	- Region-free utilities :
		- LG DRD-8080B Region-free utility  
	- Misc utilities :
		- DVDSpeed 0.2
	
4. New guides at Tech-Support Zone
	- a new way to convert DVD VOBs to MPGs and a DVD playback speed-up guide

5. How to cancel/change your subscription email address
	- how to maintain the subscription to this newsletter even if your email address has changed

6. A simple thank-you 
	- a thank-you message for all those that joined this list

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1. Digital Digest's Forums

You may or may not know this, but Digital Digest's DVD Digest has a forum that lets visitors help each other with their DVD problems, and also share news and links about the latest DVD software releases. Currently, we are getting over 4000 page views per day for our Forum, and with 100's of messages posted.

Visiting the forum also helps support DVD Digest because we get paid for the impression banner advertising found in the Forum (you do not need to click on the banners for us to get paid). 

You can visit out Forum here :
http://www.delphi.com/dvddigest/ (free registration is required)

Thank-you. 

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2. DeCSS court trial coverage - latest update

The author of DeCSS and his father have been arrested and questioned in Norway, early this week. 

This comes after 2 separate court injunctions were granted on the 21st of January 2000, in the United States.

DVD Digest is one of the 500 sites that the DVD CCA has taken legal action against the distribution of DeCSS, in Californian.

It makes one think that if an US Corporation can have legal action taken against people in as far away as Norway, what are they capable of doing locally?

We have already started our in depth converage of the court cases, and you can read more about it here :
http://www.digital-digest.com/dvd/news.html

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3. What's new at DVD Digest Downloads ?
	
- Software players :
	- A new version of PowerDVD 2.5.5 (retail release)
http://pdvd.cjb.net	

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- Encoding utilities : 
		- AC3-Decoder 0.811 - A new version of the popular AC3 to WAV program
		- V-Strip 0.4 - A vob-editing tool that lets you split and edit many aspects of a vob file
http://www.digital-digest.com/dvd/downloads/encoding.html#enc

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- Subtitling utilities : 
		- DVD Subtitler - DVD Subtitler is a freeware VOB editor, which can extract / edit any subtitle
		- SubMagic 1.0 - SubMagic is able to get timecode and TIF images from a VOB file and more  
		- SubViewer 1.85 -  Make your own subtitles with a simple Microsoft Notepad and SubEditor for synchronization 
http://www.digital-digest.com/dvd/downloads/encoding.html#sub

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- Region-free utilities :
		- LG DRD-8080B Region-free utility - makes your LG DRD-8080B completely region-free
http://www.digital-digest.com/dvd/downloads/region_rom.html

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- Misc utilities :
		- DVDSpeed 0.2 - The best DVD-ROM drive benchmark program 
http://www.digital-digest.com/dvd/downloads/misc.html#dvdspeed

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4. New guides at Tech-Support Zone

VOB 2 MPEG guides 
	- DVD2MPG v1.0 guide - a complete step to step guide for DVD2MPG - guide for version 1.11 coming soon
	- FlaskMpeg official guide - download links and the official guide to Flask

DVD Playback  Speed-up Guide 
	- Tips for speeding up your DVD playback

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5. How to cancel/change settings for your subscription to this newsletter

Changing subscription settings for this newsletter can be hard, so here is a short guide : 

1. Go to this link : http://www.listbot.com/cgi-bin/subscriber
2. Enter the email address this newsletter is sent to and also the password you chose when signing up to this newsletter. 
3. You should find options to change/cancel your subscriptions. 

Note : using your sign-up account, you can sign up to the 1000's of other newsletters available from listbot.com


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6. A simple thank-you 

Just a note to thank all the thousands of people, including you, who joined the DVD Digest LiveUpdate program. We've spent quite a bit of time developing this site, and making it what it is today, and really do appreciate your continued support. 

If you want to thank us, please click on our sponsors' links on our sites, it won't cost you a cent (maybe 5-10 seconds worth of Internet time), but it will help us to keep this site going - thanks. 

I would also like to take time out to especially thank all those who offered advice and services for my domain hosting requirements. 

We hoped you enjoyed this LiveUpdate newsletter. 

Thank-you

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