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After Apple’s Sept 1 Keynote

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

A few nice surprises as well as some confirmations on the rumors.
* new iPod Shuffle
* new Nano with touch-screen. Unfortunately, the demo did not show any video-icons, and with a completely square screen, I’m not sure if it would actually be capable of video playback.
* new iPod Touch. As expected, based on the iPhone 4 [...]

Before Apple’s Sept 1 Keynote

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

The Apple keynote is about half an hour away, so I figured I’d share some things that “might” be announced.
The last couple of months, there have been rumors about the following:
* Touch-screen iPod Shuffle/Nano. A square ipod Nano without the clickwheel that resembles the look of a (very small) iPad.
The screen appears to be similar [...]

DVD Catalyst 3 Beta update

Saturday, August 28th, 2010

While it has been a little while since we posted some information about the update, we are still working on it on a daily basis.
Besides new profiles, the new features from DVD Catalyst Free 2.0 have been added, such as the movie title display in the actual movie, as well as the Album Art feature. [...]

DVD Catalyst 3 Beta Testers Needed

Saturday, July 17th, 2010

We need your help !

How to stream movies to your phone for free

Friday, July 9th, 2010

This guide provides details on how to stream your own video collection to your (internet-capable) portable video player. It should work with all devices that can play H264 MP4 video files that feature a webbrowser, such as recent Blackberry devices (Storm/Bold/Tour), Android (Droid, Nexus, EVO etc) Windows Mobile 6.x (HTC HD2) and iPod Touch, iPhone [...]

iTunes hacked?

Sunday, July 4th, 2010

After going through my collection of news sites I use to stay informed, I stumbled upon this article
http://thenextweb.com/apple/2010/07/04/app-store-hacked/
While no response from Apple has been given out (yet) it appears the Appstore has more issues than the large amount of fake reviews and clone-apps.
If you use iTunes a lot for your music/movie/app purchases, it might be [...]

Scrambled scene solution

Friday, June 11th, 2010

A few new-ish DVDs have a protection system that puts fake tracks on the DVD (99 tracks) and/or scramble the scene order of the movie/tv episodes.
To find the correct track(s) to use with DVD Catalyst, the easiest solution is to play the movie on an actual DVD player.
Most DVD players have an LCD screen that [...]

Heuristic.BehavesLike.Win32.Suspicious.L FALSE POSITIVE !

Monday, June 7th, 2010

6-8-2010: the installers no longer display the message. It appears McAffee received enough complaints from other people in this regard that they have actually resolved this particular issue.
Thank you McAfee-GW-Edition. Like killing 1000’s of Windows-based computers earlier this year with a false virus scan wasn’t enough.
DVD Catalyst 3, as well as the DVD Catalyst Free [...]

DVD Catalyst Free for iPhone 4G

Sunday, June 6th, 2010

Transfer your DVDs and video files to your new Apple iPhone 4G for free !
(for the older iPhones, such as the 3G and 3GS, please download DVD Catalyst Free for iPhone)
DVD Catalyst Free for iPhone 4G is the first free DVD conversion tool for Apple’s new iPhone 4G. While based on the popular DVD Catalyst [...]

DVD Catalyst Free (2.0) for iPad

Sunday, May 30th, 2010

Transfer your DVDs and video files to your Apple iPad for free !
DVD Catalyst Free for iPad is the first free DVD conversion tool for Apple’s iPad device. While based on the popular DVD Catalyst Free, we have made some significant changes to make it even easier to use than ever before.

HTC Windows Mobile phones and Audio synchronization issues

Friday, April 30th, 2010

Over the last couple of weeks, some people have reported issues in regards of audio synchronization (lips dont match the spoken words) with some HTC phones running WIndows Mobile, such as the HD2.
The problem lies in the phone. Playing the video files on anything else (tip: use Quicktime on a PC to verify your files) [...]

Avatar Bluray DRM issue

Friday, April 30th, 2010

Not DVD Catalyst related, however, I have mentioned in the past that I do not believe DRM and Copy protection is hurting the paying customer more than that it serves it purpose in reducing piracy.
UbiSofts Game protection, ARCOSS/RipGuard DVD protection, computer-damaging rootkits on music CD’s, software licenses tied to hardware ID’s rather than the consumer [...]

XBOX 360 (Part 1)

Sunday, April 4th, 2010

Being a (late) first-generation gamer, I grew up with computer systems such as the Atari 2600, Colecovision, ZX Spectrum, MSX, C64, Amiga 500, and various Nintendo and Sega consoles. When it comes to games, I have a fairly short attention span, so with the console systems, I ended up picking up 2-3 $40 games a [...]

DVD to Droid Milestone Nexus : Sample Videos

Sunday, April 4th, 2010

A couple of trailers converted using the Droid profile in DVD Catalyst 3.
Download the file you want to watch, extract the video from the zip, then transfer the file directly to your Droid/Milestone/Nexus in USB mode for best results. The files can also be played on your computer using Apple Quicktime.

DVD to iPod Classic Nano Video : Sample Videos

Saturday, April 3rd, 2010

A couple of trailers converted using the iPod Classic profile in DVD Catalyst 3.
Download the file, extract the video from the zip file you downloaded, then transfer the video to your iPod using iTunes. DVD Catalyst is Windows-only, however, the videos will play/transfer using a MAC

DVD to iPhone iPod Touch : Sample Videos

Friday, April 2nd, 2010

A couple of trailers converted using the iPhone profile in DVD Catalyst 3.
Download the file, extract the video from the zip file you downloaded, then transfer the video to your iPhone using iTunes. DVD Catalyst is Windows-only, however, the videos will play/transfer using a MAC

DVD to Blackberry Bold, Storm & Tour : Sample Videos

Monday, March 29th, 2010

A couple of trailers converted using the Blackberry Bold profile in DVD Catalyst 3.
Download the file you want to watch, extract the video from the zip, then transfer the file directly to your Blackberry in USB mode for best results. Do not use Windows Media Player or the Blackberry Video transfer tool to transfer. The [...]

New Blackberry Storm/Storm2 Optimized Trailers

Saturday, March 20th, 2010

Converted with DVD Catalyst 3 (of course) using the default (non-HQ) Storm profile

Alice in Wonderland

Source: http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/disney/aliceinwonderland/
From Walt Disney Pictures and visionary director Tim Burton comes an epic 3D fantasy adventure ALICE IN WONDERLAND, a magical and imaginative twist on some of the most beloved stories of all time. JOHNNY DEPP stars as [...]

DVD to Blackberry Video

Monday, March 1st, 2010

DVD Catalyst 3.85.1 Release Notes

Friday, February 19th, 2010

DVD Catalyst 3.85.1 is now available from our website.
To update a previous version of DVD Catalyst 3, just click on the cat-eyes to download the update.
One of the fixes applied in 3.85 in regards of detection of looping DVDs caused some issues with conversion of some of the trickier DVDs. This has been fixed.
Whats New [...]