Thursday, April 10, 2014

How to copy videos and movies to Google Nexus 7 (2013), Nexus 10 tablet?

Description: Do you ever think about converting videos to Google Nexus 7(2013) /Nexus 10 tablet for playback? Go ahead, this article will show you how to convert DVD movie to Google Nexus 7 (2013), Nexus 10 tablet compatible formats with best video quality. 
  

Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate is a professional tool for deal with videos/movies. It can rip and convert latest movies for watching on your devices. And a lot of videos formats are supported to output, so you are able to watch Blu-ray and DVD movies on your new Nexus 7 android tablet with best quality, or convert them to other smartphones including Nexus 7, Nexus 10, Nexus 6, iPad 3iPhone 5Kindle Fire HDX,Surface 2, Galaxy Tab 3, Galaxy S5, etc. as well as to upload them to YouTube or Facebook for sharing with friends. And CUDA acceleration will help to speed up the conversion. Get it to experience all the functions now. 

The Google Nexus 7 (2013), Nexus 10 android tablet are also great. If you want to watch TV shows and movies from your own collection, there are apps for that, below, I will share you an easy way to bring home movies including videos and movies to Google Nexus 7 (2013), Nexus 10 tablet. Keep reading for a brief how-to on the process.

Downloading the app (A Video Converter Ultimate ) for Google Nexus 7 (2013), Nexus 10 tablet.

Pavtube provides a piece of software called the Video Converter Ultimate, which is used to rip movies, standard DVDs and convert almost all kinds of videos including the common MKV, AVI, VOB, MPG tec. It can transffering with super fast conversion speed and excellent image and sound quality. The Movie Converter for Google Nexus 7 (2013), Nexus 10 tablet offers an optimized formats. 

I’ve been searching for more than a year of a way to rip, convert and enjoy my huge DVD’s and videos collection of movies and concerts. Finally my search has come to an end!! This software is so simple to use and gives me exactly what i was looking for. I’ve had success using the Google Nexus 7 Converter to convert videos and movies to a format playable by Google Nexus 7 (2013)/Nexus 10 tablet. I’ve found the quality to be excellent, and see no difference when compared to playing the discs themselves. Just free download the program and download and copy your home movies for enjoying with ease.

The software works like most other Converters I’ve used. Pop in your disc or add your HD videos, choose an Google Nexus 7 (2013)/Nexus 10 tablet output profile, and click "Convert" to start conversion. Then go get a cup of coffee (conversion takes time).

The Steps — Convert, transfer home movies and videos to Play on Google Nexus 7 (2013), Nexus 10 tablet 

1. Free downloaded the Google Nexus 7 (2013)/Nexus 10 tablet video Converter Ultimate for windows users, Imedia converter for Mac users, run and load your video source to the program. 

Once run the Video Converter Ulitmate software, click "Load the disc" to load videos/movies from DVD (Disc, folder, ISO).
  

 
2. Click the format bar, and move mouse cursor to "Android >Google Nexu 7 H,264 Video(*.mp4)"/ "Android >Google Nexu 10 H,264 Video(*.mp4)"as output format.

Notes:Click "Settings" to change the video encoder, resolution, frame rate, etc. as you like. Keep in mind that bitrate higher result in big file size, and lower visible quality loss, and vice versa.
  

 
3. Start the conversion.

Wait for a few moments, and you can click "Open output folder" to locate the converted video quickly. Now you can transfer videos to your Nexus 7/10 for entertainment.
 

 
Got it! Now you can start the fun right away with get home movies/videos to Google Nexus 7 (2013), Nexus 10 tablet for watching as you like. Enjoy!

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Great Blu-ray movie review: Seven Warriors

Well Go USA | 1989 | 92 min | Not rated | Apr 22, 2014 (2 Weeks)
 
 
Is it possible to roll over in your grave before you're even dead? Akira Kurosawa may have at least looked askance when his classic 1954 film Seven Samurai became John Sturges' Americanized The Magnificent Seven (along with several sequels starting in 1960 and continuing on for over a decade). Sturges' film at least had the benefit of a smartly rethought setting and some great performances, along with the director's trademark handling of action sequences. But the iconic Japanese director may well be spectrally furious with what has happened with some of his most legendary films since he shuffled off this mortal coil. One of the touchstones of 20th century cinema, Kurosawa's immortal Rash on, became the basis for a pretty dunderheaded follow-up called Tajomaru: Avenging Blade in 2009. But some twenty years earlier, Seven Samurai itself (themselves?) was adapted yet again in a fitfully amusing but ultimately pointless reboot called Seven Warriors. This 1989 outing is noisy, frenetic and even occasionally fun at times, but it's a pale (one might go so far as to say bloodless) reinvention of Kurosawa's original. Rather sloppily directed by Terry Tong (with the somewhat better fight choreography handled by Sammo Hung), and scored with what must certainly be one of the most inept sets of cues ever slathered onto a soundtrack, Seven Warriors lumbers about, attempting to revisit a lot of the tropes in Kurosawa's masterpiece without ever offering much of anything new and finally kind of sullying the memory of the famous film. 

 

Best solutions: Convert/Rip DVDs for Sony Xperia Z2/Z1 smartphones

Sony's Xperia Z1 came very close to being up there with the very best of smartphones in 2013, but was let down by a select few features that stopped it being truly great. Now we have the Xperia Z2 and with it, Sony appears to have addressed every major problem we had with the first generation Z1.
  
If you have some DVD movie collections and want to watch the DVD movies on Sony Xperia Z2/Z1, you’ll need toconvert DVD to Sony Xperia Z2/Z1 supported format first.



To get the work done, a 3rd-party software is needed. Most of you are likely familiar with the excellent Handbrake for ripping standard Def DVDs, however, it cannot yet decrypt the commercial DVD discs (ie: Disney and other animated movies) the way it can with regular DVDs, so you’ll need to add an intermediate step. Here Pavtube DVD Ripper is highly recommended to help you backup and rip DVD to MP4 videos to play on Sony Xperia Z2/Z1. 
  
Frankly, the program is very easy to use for editing and conversion. I’ve had success using it to convert DVDs to Sony Xperia Z2/Z1 playable format and I’ve found the quality to be excellent, and see no difference when compared to playing the discs themselves. The time it takes to convert in this software is almost half that in other. 

How to Convert DVD to Sony Xperia Z2/Z1 compatible video formats

Note: For Windows users, just follow the detailed guide to complete your conversion. The way to encode DVD movies to Sony Xperia Z2/Z1 on Mac is the same. Just make sure you’ve downloaded the right version.

1. Run the top DVD Ripper for Sony Xperia Z2/Z1, add your DVD files (DVD Disc/DVD ISO/IFO/DVD Folder) to the program.

 

2. Step 2. Select Xperia Z1, Xperia Z2 compatible format. You can easily find the optimized profiles for Xperia Xperia Z2/Z1 under “HD Video> H.264 HD Video(*.mp4)” which is specially designed for Sony Xperia Z2/Z1 and supplies full-screen effect. 
  
  

Tip: Click the "Settings" icon on program interface, you are allowed to set presets to get better video and audio performance on your Sony Xperia Z1, Xperia Z2.

Video

Codec: h.264
Size: 1280*720/1920*1080
Bitrate: 1500~2500
Frame rate: 24

Audio

Codec: aac
Sample rate: 48000
Bitrate: 128000
Channels: Stereo
  
Note: Higher Bitrate leads to better video quality in saved file, but it also creates larger video size. Don't forget the balance between video quality and size. 



3. Click “Convert” Button to start the DVD to Sony Xperia Z2/Z1 MP4 video conversion.
  
When the conversion completes, you can transfer the result videos to the Sony Xperia Z2/Z1. So there you have it. Pretty simple! Now you can start the fun right away with viewing DVD movies on Sony Xperia Z2/Z1 anytime and anywhere. 

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Wednesday, April 9, 2014

'Men in War' Proves Sherman Was Right The Cast


Olive Films | 1957 | 102 min | Not rated | Apr 15, 2014 (6 Days) 

 
IT appears that the underlying purpose of Sidney Harmon's new film, "Men in War," is to show that the famous observation of Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman was justified. War, in this low-budget picture, which came to the Capitol yesterday, is brutal and agonizing. It is unequivocal hell.
From the very beginning, when the camera brings us in touch with a platoon of hard-pressed American infantrymen cut off from their battalion during the Korean war, it is one long display of horror and misery as the soldiers, under the command of a tired and tormented lieutenant, try to slog their way back to their lines.
Half of the bruised and bearded soldiers appear to be suffering from battle fatigue, which causes them, at embarrassing moments, to do weird and incautious things. These unaccountable fellows are constantly having to be dragged down to the ground. The other half appear to be so frightened that they have to fee prodded to move. The courage and ingenuity of the lieutenant are unrelentingly taxed.
And, to add to his troubles, there early comes into his group a sergeant of nasty disposition, tending a colonel who is out of his mind. The colonel just sits there and gazes into space, but the sergeant gripes and growls, questioning the lieutenant's decisions. Yes sir, brother, war is hell.
So, we might add, is the experience of sitting through this film, which runs for an hour and three-quarters and never gets out of that ugly terrain. It is not just the war, it is the monotony of seeing the same things happen over and over again—feet dragging through dust, faces sweating, guys jumping up and going mad. The screen play by Philip Yordan and the direction of Anthony Mann are made up largely of previous war-film indications of human behavior that mean little when repeated so many times.
It is a relief when the lieutenant and the nasty sergeant, survivors of the band, wipe out an enemy bunker and permit the picture to come to an end.
The lieutenant is played by Robert Ryan and the sergeant by Aldo Ray. Both are rugged, ruthless soldiers, by the rules of realism here laid down, and James Edwards as a careless Negro and Philip Pine as a scared noncom are among the dozen or so actors who stumble and sweat commendably.
It is hard to figure what audience, if any, should be recommended to this film. By now, there are not many people who are unacquainted with the facts of Hollywood war.

Monday, April 7, 2014

Today's Films: “young at heart” Blu-ray movie review

117 min | Not rated | Apr 08, 2014 (New Release)
   

The rare pairing of Hollywood and recording icons Doris Day and Frank Sinatra is available for the first time on Blu-ray via a new edition of the 1954 movie musical YOUNG AT HEART.

Storyline:

Young at Heart centers on a family headed by a music-loving patriarch (Robert Keith, Men in War) and his musically inclined daughters looking for romance. Doris Day (That Touch of Mink) plays the youngest daughter, Laurie, and Gig Young (City That Never Sleeps) plays Alex Burke, a likable composer who comes for an extended visit and eventually wins the hearts of all three sisters. Frank Sinatra (Come Blow Your Horn) plays Barney Sloan, a cynical songwriter hired by Alex to do arrangements for an upcoming Broadway show. The praiseworthy cast also includes Dorothy Malone (The Tarnished Angels) and Elisabeth Fraser (So Big) as the older sisters, Ethel Barrymore (Portrait of Jennie) as the family's matriarch and Alan Hale, Jr. (TV's Gilligan's Island) as Robert Neary, a successful businessman engaged to the oldest daughter (Malone). The first screen pairing of "Old Blue Eyes" and "America's Sweetheart" will have your heart smiling and your toes tapping with timeless tunes by the Gershwin brothers, Cole Porter and Johnny Mercer. Young at Heart was directed by Gordon Douglas (Only the Valiant) and beautifully shot in color by the great Ted D. McCord (The Sound of Music, East of Eden).

Doris Day and Frank Sinatra star in this remake of the 1938 hit "Four Daughters."
In this version, Gregory Tuttle has just three daughters, one of whom falls for a melancholy musician named Barney Sloan. But she's already betrothed to Alex Burke, the man who hired Barney to arrange the music for a musical comedy. That doesn't prevent Laurie and Barney from eloping. But his insecurity is so deep and so destructive it nearly costs them their happiness... and his life.
Features a classic song score, performed by Day and Sinatra.

Doris Day is a small-town girl who helps a jaded and struggling musician (Frank Sinatra) find happiness through her love and support. Ethel Barrymore gives a fine supporting performance. A remake of 1938's "Four Daughters."

40th Anniversary Edition is digitally mastered from the original film negative and includes the original theatrical trailer.

Additional song composers: Don Pippin and Al Rinker. 

Several new songs were written for the film.

Filmed in three-strip Technicolor.

Remake of the 1938 film "Four Daughters," actor John Garfield's film debut, directed by Michael Curtiz.

Young at Heart Reviews:

"...[The music] is tops..."
-- Mike Clark, USA Today


Ripping Blu-ray to Apple TV 3 with subtitles and Dobly Digital 5.1 surround sound

In terms of an overall, pants-on-couch experience, the Apple TV is still the best streaming box you can plug into your tube—followed by a Roku. Since Apple supports 1080p now, with the new Apple TV 2012 (Apple TV 3rd generation), you can streams a large catalog of available-to-anyone video that’s nearly as high-fidelity as Blu-ray. Of course, most of you are not about to pay iTunes’ ridiculous prices to watch 1080p HD movies and TV shows you already own on Blu-ray. Instead, you can get the movies off Blu-ray into iTunes for Apple TV 3 streaming in HD 1080p quality. If you have a great sourround system, you can even watch Blu-ray movies via ATV 3 with Dobly Digital 5.1 surround sounds and proper subtitles.



To achieve your goal smoothly, I will throw a detailed tutorial up. This article mainly explains how to backup and convert Blu-ray to Apple TV 3  with AC3 5.1 audio while keeping desired subtitles and how to play Dobly Digital 5.1 sounds on ATV 3.

First, the most important piece of the equation is that you have a Blu-Ray ripping tool hooked to your Wins or Mac PC. Most of you are likely familiar with the excellent Handbrake for ripping standard Def DVDs, but while the latest version of the software has added SOME support for reading Blu-Ray folder structures, it cannot yet decrypt the Blu-Ray discs the way it can with regular DVDs, so you’ll need to add an intermediate step. The software I recommend here is Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper(available for Windows or for Mac users. Get the Windows version here, and the Mac version here).

Frankly, I tried several softwares and I can tell you that NO ONE comes even close to the simpleness and great quality that Pavtubes softwares deliver. I’ve had success using the software to convert Blu-ray discs to 1080p videos with subtitles and Dobly Digital 5.1 for Apple TV 3 streaming. This software is so simple to use and gives me exactly what i was looking for. I’m saving and digitalizing my entire collection and now been able to put them on iTunes and watch them wirelessly on my Apple TV 3 with extraordinary quality of Audio (DD 5.1) and Video (1920×1080).

The software works like most other Blu-ray rippers I’ve used. Pop in your disc, choose an Apple TV 3 output profile, and start the conversion. Then go get a cup of coffee (conversion takes time).

Note: As for ripping Blu-ray to Apple TV 3 1080p videos with Dobly Digital 5.1 and subtitles, a BD drive is required for ripping Blu-ray disc.



P.S. and Tips:The program has a number of presets for Apple TV, Apple TV 2, and Apple TV 3rd Generation under "Apple" category, to export a Apple TV 3 1080p video with ac3 5.1 pass-through, "Apple TV 3 Dolby Digital Pass-through (*.m4v)" preset is recommended.

The best video format and settings for streaming Blu-ray to Apple TV 3 with 5.1 surround sound:
Format: Apple TV 3 Dolby Digital Pass-through (*.m4v)

Video Settings

Codec: h264
Resolution: 1920*1080
Bit Rate: 5000 kbps
Frame Rate: 24 fps

Audio Settings

Codec: aac
Sample Rate: 48,000hz
Bit Rate:160,000 bps
Channels: Stereo



When you choosing "Apple TV 3 Dolby Digital Pass-through (*.m4v)" as output, an AC-3 encoded audio track will also be included for Apple TV 3 to Pass-through Dolby Digital 5.1 sound (also know as AC3 5.1), so that it will work in surround sound when Apple TV 3 is connected to audio receiver, and in stereo when Apple TV Gen 3 is connected with TV only(Apple TV 3 itself can not play 5.1 audio directly, it needs the receiver in your surround system to decode the 5.1 audio into six channels and distribute them to six speakers).

I’ve already convered how to set up Apple TV 3 for streaming HD videos with Dobly Digital 5.1 sounds, you can check out to learn how to play AC3 5.1 on ATV 3.Select subtitles. For watching videos via Apple TV 3 with subtitles, you can select wanted subtitle language you like from "Subtitles" option. If not, just leave it alone.



3) Click on "Settings" you could easily set bitrate, frame rate, codec, channels, sample rate, etc to adjust parameters that affect video quality and file size for the video you prefer. Remember the file size is based more on bitrate than resolution which means bitrate higher results in big file size, and lower visible quality loss.

Once the conversion completes, you can Import new 1080p .m4v file into iTunes. In this way, you can stream 1080p Blu-ray movies through Apple TV 3 to your wide Screen TV for playback with Dobly Digital 5.1 sound and proper subtitles.

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Saturday, April 5, 2014

DVD to Nook HD/HD+ – How to Rip DVDs for Playing on Nook HD/HD+ Tablet

Summary:This guide will show you the steps to rip and convert DVD to Nook HD/HD+ Tablet videos so that you can play your favourite DVD movies on your Nook HD/HD+ Tablet anytime, anywhere.

As one of the second generation of 7-inchers which gained traction, the Barnes & Noble Nook HD/HD+ Tablet features a brilliant HD display which brings your entertainment to life in stunning clarity on a vibrant 1440-by-900 spectacular high-resolution display. With over one million pixels in your hand, text is sharper, gameplay is smooth and dynamic and much more – HD movies are more vivid. If you have some DVD movie collections and want to watch DVD movies on Nook HD/HD+ Tablet, you’ll need to convert DVD to Nook HD/HD+ Tablet supported H.264 or MPEG4 first. To help those who’re interested in doing this likewise, here I would throw a quick tutorial up.



Above all, let us have a look at the video formats supported by Nook.

Nook HD/HD+/HD+ supported media format:

Audio: MP4, M4A, 3GP, AAC, MP3, FLAC, WAV, OGG, AMR 
Video: MP4, 3GP, WEBM, AVI 
Gallery pictures: JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP 
Reader/Other: PDF, ePUB, DRP, ePIB, FOLIO, OFIP, CBZ, TXT, RTF, XLS, DOC, PPT, PPS, PPSX, DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, LOG, CSV, EML, ZIP

For those of you in the know, to get the work done, a DVD ripping tool is needed. Most of you are likely familiar with the excellent Handbrake for ripping standard Def DVDs, but keep in mind that that program can’t rip copy-protected DVDs without a third-party add-on, and it doesn’t have Nook-specific profiles. So you’ll need to add an intermediate step, the software highly recommended here is Pavtube DVD Ripper.

Basically, the software can help you encode DVD also DVD ISO/IFO to Nook Tablet highly supported MP4 video files with high output video quality and fast ripping speed. Besides, you are allowed to edit the DVD movies by trimming, cropping, adjusting video effects, etc. to get the very wanted part and effects as you like. Moreover, this DVD converter can also help you convert DVD to all other popular video formats like AVI, MOV, MKV, WMV, FLV, MPG, etc. for playing and sharing on iPhone, iPad, Archos, Zen, Blackberry, YouTube, Facebook, etc. bypassing the DVD copy protection. Just download it and follow the steps below to download and put DVD movies onto Nook HD/HD+ Tablet for smoothly playing.

TheEasy Way to Convert DVD movies to Nook HD/HD+ Tablet compatible video formats

The quick start guide below uses DVD Ripper Windows screenshots. The way to rip DVD movies to Nook Tablet on Mac is almost the same. Just make sure you get the right version according to your computer operating system.

1. Add Movies

Launch the top DVD Ripper for Nook Tablet, insert the DVD disc to your computer drive, and then click the "DVD Disc" icon on the interface to navigate to the videos you want to convert. You can also add ISO file, IFO file or DVD folder.



2. Choose the output video format and output folder

Now choose the output format for playback on your Nook HD/HD+ Tablet. You can get optimized videos for Nook HD/HD+ under Format > Android > Nook Tablet(*.mp4). The output videos could fit on your device perfectly. You can also click "Setting" to change the video encoder, frame rate, resolution, etc. Below is the best format settings for ripping DVD to Nook HD/HD+ Tablet per my experience, you can take it as reference:



Video
Codec- H.264
Resolution- 1280×720 (HD)
Bitrate- 1500/2000kbps (bitrate higher results in big file size, and lower visible quality loss)
Framerate- 24fps

Audio
Codec- AAC
Sampling rate- 44.1khz
Bitrate- 128kbps
Channel- stereo

3. Start the DVD to Nook HD/HD+ Tablet Conversion

When you are satisfied with all the settings, you can click "Convert" and let the software do the DVD to Nook HD/HD+ MP4 conversion. After the ripping, you can click "Open" to locate the converted MP4 video files. Connect your NOOK to a computer, and just copy them (drag-and-drop) to the appropriate NOOK folder without limitations!

Tips: Before the conversion, you can click on the dropdown list of "Subtitles" to select your needed subtitles so that you can view DVD films on Nook HD/HD+ Tablet with proper subtitles. 

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