Last night in an online chat with the Home Theater Forum, Warners Home Video announced they have finally settled their legal issues with Hearst Entertainment and King Features Syndicate and are planning to release all the Popeye starting in 2007. Here's the press release. The cartoons will be given the royal treatment, just like the Looney Tunes and will be released chronologically. Read the rest of this entry ...

§269 · June 7, 2006 · Cartoons, Entertainment, Life, Movies, Technology, Video, Web · 2 comments ·


Our library kicks ass. It's about 3 blocks away so it's often a place to take the boys and let them blow off steam looking at puzzles, playing with puppets or picking out books. We've even picked out some DVDs for them (mostly discs in the Baby Einstein series: Baby Mozart, Baby Newton and Baby Beethoven). The kids love those DVDs, but we have had a hard time keeping their TV watching to under 30-40 minutes/day (I know, still too much for 17-month olds, but c'est la vie). Read the rest of this entry ...

§140 · August 22, 2005 · Cartoons, Entertainment, Kids, Life, Television, The Office, Video · Comments Off on The Library and The Office ·


I had to force myself to finish writing this entry as it's been sitting in "Draft" state for way too long. Read Step 1 and Step 2 first. Read the rest of this entry ...

§39 · March 17, 2005 · Technology, Video · 1 comment ·


Read Step 1 first.

Although my interests in digital video are currently taking a backseat to game development, web programming and general Linux administrativeness, I thought I'd add a second entry to this series that discusses the software I used to create my DVDs from analog video sources. Read the rest of this entry ...

§38 · February 8, 2005 · Technology, Video · Comments Off on Carving DVDs (Step 2) ·


This entry will be the first of a series that describe in fine detail how I transferred video from old VHS tapes and Laserdiscs to brand-spanking new DVDRs. It includes the video capture, the MPEG encoding, some audio engineering, DVD title/chapter/menu creation and burning. Get ready... Read the rest of this entry ...

§4 · January 26, 2005 · Technology, Video · 1 comment ·