A US court has banned American Software Company RealNetworks from selling a program that lets people make copies of their DVDs.

The ruling stops Real from selling RealDVD, a piece of software that allows you to make back-up copies of their movie discs and save them to their computer.

Although free DVD ripping software is already available online, Real raised the hackles of Hollywood executives in 2008 because it paid for a license to the DVD Copy Control Association, believing that it could be interpreted to allow the services they wanted to provide.

In her ruling, Judge Marilyn Hall Patel said:

“While it may well be fair use for an individual consumer to store a backup copy of a personally-owned DVD on that individual’s computer, a federal law has nonetheless made it illegal to manufacture or traffic in a device or tool that permits a consumer to make such copies.”

Campaigners had argued that consumers had the right to make personal copies of material they had legally obtained, and that Real should not be punished.

Real Networks said that it was “disappointed” in the ruling and would take time to examine the verdict closely before considering whether to appeal.

Do you agree with the judges verdict or do you think we should be able to copy our own DVDs??

Either way you can watch them on the DVD players and recorders available here at AJ Electronics, for more details please visit the website.

The digital photo frame is a product that is becoming increasingly popular in households, I know that each member of my family has at least one and so have a number of my friends.

The frame enables you to view all of the photos on your camera memory in a slideshow format. This is certainly easier and less time consuming than printing pictures and individually putting them into a photo album.

All you have to do is insert your digital camera memory card in to the frame and watch all of your fabulous summer pictures go by.

Ideal for your Summer holidays, weddings and barbecues!

Some of the more advanced digital photo frames can even hold and view videos with sound, so what are you waiting for?!!

AJ Electronics offer a range of Memoire and Phillips digital photo frames, for full details of these great products please visit our website.

Sony, Philips, and Panasonic are joining together to create a less expensive and simpler licensing process for companies that wish to make Blu-ray devices.

A new license will be established by the middle of 2009 as a ‘one-stop shop’ for device makers. The license will include all necessary Blu-ray, DVD, and CD patents for selling Blu-ray players.

The licensing program will be handled by a new licensing company to be led by Gerald Rosenthal, former head of intellectual property at IBM. It will be based in the U.S., but will have local branches in Asia, Europe, and Latin America.

Instead of having to approach Blu-ray, DVD, and CD holders individually and paying them separate royalties; the single license should reduce the total cost of royalty payments by 40%, according to Sony.

The fees for the new licenses will be $9.50 for a Blu-ray player, and $14 for a Blu-ray recorder.

The idea for a one-stop shop for Blu-ray has been floating around since a 2007 meeting of the 18 companies that hold Blu-ray patents. Licensing fees can be extremely lucrative for disc format patent holders: several years ago license fees for making a DVD player cost between $15 and $20.

This one-stop shop will help avoid the headache DVD licenses created. To make a DVD player or disc, manufacturers have had to ink deals with three separate organisations that represented various patent holders.

For our selection of Blu-Ray players, please click here.

Author:	John Archer, TrustedReviews.com	Design:
Published:	17th Nov 2008	Features:
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Price:	£1,676.59 (Exc VAT)	Value:
as reviewed:	£1,969.99 (Inc VAT)	Overall:

They must be something pretty amazing in the Dutch water supply right now. For just days after leaving the collective TrustedReviews jaw gaping open with its latest Aurea Light Frame TV, Philips has gone into innovation overdrive again with the Philips 42PFL9803H 42in LED LCD TV: its first LCD TV to use LED backlighting.

LED technology illuminates pictures using a whole array (128 in the Philips 42PFL9803H 42in LED LCD TV’s case) of conjoined but individually controllable LED backlight sectors, rather than the single, always-on fluorescent lamp. This allows you to turn off the lights completely in some areas of the picture, to deliver a near-perfect reproduction of black, while leaving LEDs in other areas at maximum illumination.

The Philips 42PFL9803H 42in LED LCD TV ’s LED lighting helps it produce pictures that makes it the finest performing LCD TV I’ve seen.