DVD, AVI and the rest of the video world

A long time ago when I bought my first DVD player here in Denmark I didn't need to worry about regions. Since the law of my contry did not bother about these things. We simply allowed all regions as we where a free country.

On a vacatin to the US of A I bought a number of DVD's that I found interesting , good and could not get as region 1 movies. Besides most European movies has been rated differently and are therefore not the original movie once they are released in Europe.

Then I bought a new DVD player, but something had changed! We where no longer a free country, the regions on our players where locked! So all my movies could now lolonger be played on my new DVD player. Why????

I decided to start converting them to something I could watch on my mac and my new player. For this I needed a good tool. The darwinport's Handbrake seemed like the answer to my call. I then changed the region on my mac for 1 and started ripping all my dvd's from the US one by one.

Then I needed a good player that handled all videoformats. I found the VLC player. This player took all my troubles away. It plays AVI, VOB and what ever you could imagine.

Why WMA files for gods sake?

This Xmas I bought a song on the web. The hit of this Xmas. But I cannot play it om my mac because the file is in WMA format.

How stupid! Why cant these distribution sites use a regular format like mp3???

I wanted to listen to my new song, so I started looking for some converter tools so I could listen to my newly bought song. I found switch.

Apparently I wasen't the only one with the problem, since Dave taylor knew. Thanks Dave.