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The Burntwire Brothers remodeled a room to house their collection of D&D paraphernalia as well as a place to hold game sessions. There are stained glass windows, faux dungeon walls, a metal portcullis, dragon statuettes and a rack of swords. As if the place needs more atmosphere, the Dungeon Master can control the room’s lighting, a fog machine and a strobe from his or her seat at the table. [via boingboing]
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A follow up… RealNetworks settles RealDVD case, drops product, pays $4.5m…
RealNetworks says it has settled the litigation over RealDVD, its software for making copies of DVDs on PC hard drives, agreeing to a permanent injunction against sales of the product and paying $4.5 million in legal costs and other fees to six major Hollywood studios and others that challenged the technology.
Here’s our previous post from 2008….
RealDVD is being touted as one of the only legal ways to “back up” DVDs. It seems to make a copy on your drive, keeps the DRM and adds more Real player style DRM. Here’s the funny part about all this – awhile back (1999) a ton of people were sued and got in trouble for trying to back up their DVDs, it still happens to this day although rare. That said you can’t build a DVD jukebox without getting sued. Most people nowadays rip DVDs using many of the free open source tools (lots of posts on MAKE about that). Back to 1999, when the encryption(s) on the DVDs were broken allowing copies to be made (DeCSS) – they key actually came from the XingDVD player, from Xing Technologies, a subsidiary of RealNetworks. I’m pretty sure to this day 2600 magazine cannot even link to the DeCSS program, source, or anything. I’m sticking with HandBrake.
Looks like I’m still sticking with handbrake… Makers, what do you use to rip DVDs? Or are you busy making things instead of archiving movies? 
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Kiwi businessman Wayne Eyre dropped a pretty penny on this fantasy home theater build, but the results are impressive. Many have suggested that it’s supposed to be Captain Nemo’s Nautilus, but there’s no mention of deliberate Verne overtones in the original article. The last photograph above, for instance, shows leaking “plutonium torpedoes” in part of the installation, but plutonium wasn’t even discovered until 50 years after 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea was published. [via Dude Craft]
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One of our most searched-on and linked-to subjects is how to make a Gray-Hoverman DTV antenna. In this adorable little video, makers in the making, Naomi and Noah, show you how, proving that it’s so easy, even a child can do it (with a little prompting from dad behind the camera). [Thanks, Paul!]
Making a Gray-Hoverman DTV Antenna with Naomi and Noah
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DTV Antenna How-To [PDF]
How-To: Massive DTV antenna
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My cell phone has a little eye molded into the case for attaching a lanyard strap. I want my A/V remotes to have the same thing so that if I should decide that I want to tie one of them to ,say, the leg of my coffee table, I won’t be driven to the same lengths as this guy.
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I like the looks of these custom BBQ appliances by Steve Stealey of BARRELSMOKERS.net. [via Neatorama]
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This is a follow up to our post late last year about “RealDVD” Realnetworks DVD back up software – the NYTimes is reporting that Realnetworks cannot sell their DVD copying software…
The court did not appear to address the central question of whether consumers have the right to make backup copies of their DVDs, but rather said it was illegal for companies like Real to sell such tools. In a statement, Dan Glickman, chief executive of the Motion Picture Association of America, said:
We are very pleased with the court’s decision. This is a victory for the creators and producers of motion pictures and television shows and for the rule of law in our digital economy. Judge Patel’s ruling affirms what we have known all along: RealNetworks took a license to build a DVD-player and instead made an illegal DVD-copier. Throughout the development of RealDVD, RealNetworks demonstrated that it was willing to break the law at the expense of those who create entertainment content.
RealDVD is being touted as one of the only legal ways to “back up” DVDs. It seems to make a copy on your drive, keeps the DRM and adds more Real player style DRM.
Here’s the funny part about all this – awhile back (1999) a ton of people were sued and got in trouble for trying to back up their DVDs, it still happens to this day although rare.
That said you can’t build a DVD jukebox without getting sued.
Most people nowadays rip DVDs using many of the free open source tools (lots of posts on MAKE about that). Back to 1999, when the encryption(s) on the DVDs were broken allowing copies to be made (DeCSS) – they key actually came from the XingDVD player, from Xing Technologies, a subsidiary of RealNetworks. I’m pretty sure to this day 2600 magazine cannot even link to the DeCSS program, source, or anything.
I’m sticking with HandBrake, it’s free.
What do you use to convert/back up your DVDs? Post up in the comments! On a side note, it seems every computer is an illegal DVD-copier?
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Instructables user Romado12187 writes:
My TV was mounted onto the wall using a bulky bracket. From the left and right sides of the TV, the brackets would show. I covered them up by making two smaller sized boxes to fit and block the bracket area. I just recently remodeled my room, so I thought it would be nice to do something a little more creative than a standard shelf. The hidden shelf looks like a stack of dvds, but is in fact a hidden door.
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We posted Erica’s “warranty voiding” of the Apple TV and less than 24 hours later it looks like there’s a already a way to play xvid and replace the drive with a larger one, good work! We’ll keep an eye on this space and as always send us your hacks.
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