Technologizer

iPhone App is Not Rhapsody’s Panacea

Thursday, October 29, 2009

If you measure Rhaspody for iPhone’s success by the downloads it has accumulated — over a half million — it would be a hit. But looking at Real’s quarterly results, which reported subscriber numbers for the service, a different story is told. Rhapsody is still steadily losing subscribers, definitely not good news for the company. Around [...]

RealDVD Fails to Leave Limbo

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

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This just in: Judge Marilyn Patel of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California has ruled to extend the restraining order that prevents Real from selling its new DVD-copying software until another hearing can be scheduled. Bummer. More details when we have them…

A Real Review of RealDVD

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

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[NOTE: A court has ordered Real to stop distributing RealDVD for the time being--details here.] In one sense, there’s nothing the least bit new about software that can copy DVDs to a PC’s hard drive. Folks have been using applications such as DVDShrink and Handbrake to do the job for years–and the same people have moved [...]

More on RealDVD

Monday, September 8, 2008

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I blogged about Real’s RealDVD ripping software last night, and now the company has done its demo here at DEMO. The basics are as I mentioned last night: It’s legal, runs on Windows, costs $30, retains copy protection and lets you watch DVDs on up to five PCs but not iPods or other devices. The most [...]

Real DVDs Ripped to Your PC. Legally. Really?

Sunday, September 7, 2008

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Have you ever ripped a commercial DVD to your PC? If so, you’ve probably used a product like Handbrake whose legality is at best sketchy, since it breaks copy protection and therefore violates the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Chances of the copyright police breaking down your door and hauling you away are slim. But starting [...]