Latest DVD Released – Spend your time on Mar 15, 2015

Song of the Sea (2014)

Blu-ray / DVD release date March 17, 2015
Rating: PG
imdb: 8.3
Runtime: 93
Theater date
December 10, 2014
Genre(s): Family,Fantasy, Animation

 
Overview:

Saoirse is an enchanting little girl who lives with her grandmother in Ireland. There is much more to this child than meets the eye, however. It turns out that she is a selkie. These mysterious beings live as seals in the ocean, but they take on human form outside the sea. She decides that the time has come to return to the sea, and she leaves her home to undertake a perilous journey. On the way there, she meets many others who may have a hidden identity about which they have no knowledge, and she awakens them to their destiny. 

TURN: Washington's Spies (TV Series 2014-)

imdb: 7.9
First air date
April 6, 2014
Genre(s): Drama

Overview

In Setauket, New York, at the height of the American Revolutionary war, four childhood friends band together with the aims of affecting history for the betterment of their country. Based on the historical book Washington's Spies: America's First Spy Ring, the Culper Ring infiltrate the armies and social circles loyal to the English crown in recaptured territories in and around New York after General George Washington's army suffered devastating defeats. 

Outlander (TV Series 2014- )

imdb: 8.8
First air date
August 9, 2014
Genre(s): Drama

                                     

 
Overview: 

“Outlander” takes audiences along for the adventure of Claire Randall, a nurse in the process of rekindling her marriage to her husband Frank after the couple spent five years apart during World War II. As the two are enjoying a trip to Scotland, where Frank is conducting research about his family roots, an unexpected chain of events draws Claire back to the year 1743. While there she meets and is forced to marry Jamie Fraser, a bold and handsome Scottish Warrior. This turn of events leaves Claire torn between two men, two time periods and two very different lives.

Backup Blu-ray on Personal Cloud for Roku playback

Can Roku 3 play Blu-ray movies from Personal Cloud backups? Roku Blu-ray movie playback issue can be easily solved by downloading Blu-ray to Roku Converter to convert Roku unsupported Blu-ray files to Roku compatible MP4/MOV/ASF/WMV etc. 

Roku can allows users both to stream video content from the Internet and play movies locally through a USB drive, but the problem is that the supported media file formats are limited. It can't handle Blu-ray discs or Blu-ray files. So if we want to enable Roku to play Blu-ray movies, we will need to rip and convert Blu-ray to Roku 3/Roku 2 supported video formats first. 



To watch Blu-ray movies on Roku, you will need a Blu-ray ripping tool. Here Pavtube BDMagic is recommended to help you convert Blu-ray to Roku supported video formats with easy operation and high output quality. Besides Blu-ray, you can also use it to rip DVD to playback on Roku 3/Roku 2. The Windows version is compatible with Windows 8.1/8/7/XP/Vista. If you're using a Mac, please turn to Pavtube BDMagic for Mac, which can help you transfer Blu-ray movies to Roku 3 on any Mac OS X (Yosemite and Mavericks included). Download it right now and start enjoying your Blu-ray movies with full HD quality on Roku 3 through your Personal Cloud. 

How to Stream Blu-ray Movies on Personal Cloud for Roku playback 

Step 1: Load Blu-ray movies

Insert your Blu-ray disc into your BD drive, run the Blu-ray Ripper for Roku and click “BD/DVD disc” icon to load movies. 



Step 2: Decide output format 

To convert Blu-ray to MP4, MKV for Roku , just click on the dropdown menu of "Format", and then choose MKV, H.264 MP4 from Common Video profile list. If you want to keep 1080p resolution as source movie, you can choose HD Video > H.264 HD Video(*.mp4) or MKV HD Video(*.mkv) as output format.  



Step 3: Advanced video/audio settings 

If you like, you can click "Settings" to change the video encoder, resolution, frame rate, etc. as you wish. Keep in mind that bitrate higher results in big file size, and lower visible quality loss, and vice versa. 

Step 4: Start Blu-ray to Roku conversion 

Hit the convert button and start ripping Blu-ray to Roku. When the conversion ends, you will be able to get the result video via tapping the Open button in the main interface. Afterwards, you can stream or just transfer the converted Blu-ray files to Personal Cloud for Roku smoothy playback at ease without any incompatible problem.  

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Blu-ray /DVD Released - Coming Soon on March 10, 2015

Summary: New DVD and Blu-ray Releases for March 10, 2015

Fox’s Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb headlines this slow release week. The second and apparently final sequel to 2006’s family-friendly hit shifts the story to London’s British Museum. The film was a modest success with audiences and, like previous entries in the series, had mixed reviews from critics. I personally found it to be more enjoyable than the first two films, but most of that had to do with being able to see Robin Williams on screen again. Ultimately it’s a film that will predominantly resonate with younger viewers.

Those looking for a little more sophisticated should consider The Liberator, a Venezuelan historical drama about Simón Bolívar and his role in the Latin American Wars of Independence in the late 18th century. The film was Venezuela’s official entry for the Academy Awards and stars édgar Ramírez (Zero Dark Thirty, The Bourne Ultimatum). Or perhaps, The Red Ten, Lifetime’s mini-series based on the Bible inspired novel by Anita Diamant starring Minnie Driver, Morena Baccarin and Rebecca Ferguson.

Horror fans have Late Phases: Night of the Lone Wolf, a grisly drama about a blind Vietnam vet (Nick Damici) who moves into a retirement community plagued by mysterious deaths.  

As a huge fan of Ronny Yu’s 1993 The Bride with White Hair (not so much David Wu’s sequel) I was interested in seeing White Haired Witch. The film stars Fan Bingbing, which probably explains why the film was fairly successful because the movie itself, while beautiful to look at, is a narrative mess. Apparently the script does more closely follow the original source material, Liang Yusheng’s novel Baifa Monü Zhuan, than Yu’s version did, but that only makes the story more confusing that it should be. A Blu-ray release of Yu’s film would be more appreciated. 

Older films getting new releases include the 30th Anniversary Edition of John Hughes’ coming-of-age The Breakfast Club, as well asThe Sound of Music: 50th Anniversary Edition that was teased at this year’s Academy Awards with a performance by Lady Gaga and the Criterion Collection’s release of Fran?ois Truffaut’s underappreciated 1964 romantic drama The Soft Skin. 

Top 1. Devil May Call (2013)

Blu-ray / DVD release date March 10, 2015

Overview: 

Samantha was once on the other end of the crisis hot-line phone. She lost her vision and wasn't sure how she'd cope with her new darkness. The person on the other end of the phone saved her life, so she's spent her time since giving her time to those in need too. After spending the last year listening to people's pain and offering them a sympathetic ear, Sam is leaving the hot-line. One of her regulars doesn't want her to leave. For the past year, she's been keeping this man alive, and he doesn't want to see her leave. He shows up at the hot-line offices because he feels betrayed by her leaving him. What she doesn't know is that he's a serial killer bent on having her for himself. 

Top 2. The Legend of Korra (TV Series 2012-)

DVD Release Date  March 10, 2015

 
Overview: 

A teenage girl named Korra has three of the four elements (Earth, Water, and Fire), and now seeks to find the final element, Air. In her journey, she travels to Republic City- a metropolis that is fueled by steampunk technology. At first, it seems like a place where benders and non-benders thrive, but Korra soon finds out that Republic City is crawling with crime and the city is in danger of being torn apart. Korra focuses on her air bending training while also fighting off the dangers of the city. 

Top3. Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb

Blu-ray / DVD release date March 10, 2015

 
Overview: 

The museum comes alive at night. Old statues, monkey exhibits and figurines all come alive with the help of magic. The power comes from The Tablet of Ahkmenrah. Larry Daley, the night watchman at the museum, has saved the tablet and the museum before. He must save the museum's magic yet again. This time, the tablet's magic is dying, and Larry must leave on a quest that will take him around the world. It's the only way he can find a way to save the tablet's magic. He must join some of the most famous museum exhibits and favorites to keep the magic from dying completely. 

Source: http://www.kutv.com/entertainment/features/movie-reviews/stories/New-DVD-and-Blu-ray-Releases-for-March-10-2015-100218.shtml

Rip and Copy 200 DVDs on 12-inch MacBook Air with Retina Display

Summary: Simply follow this article to rip your favorite DVD movies to12-inch MacBook Air with friendly video formats for free enjoyment!

DVD is a double-edged sword, which helps us kill the boring time and have a good visual experience, but on the other hand, its inconvenience and fragility also embarrass 12-inch MacBook Air users. Ever wondered to liberate your movies off DVD collections for forever keeping? Wanna watch all kinds of DVD movies on MacBook without the help of DVD drive? Let’s take a look at the easiest way for you to get all your DVDs on your MacBook Air. 


  
Naturally, the gorgeous laptop MacBook Air still cannot play DVD Disc, so its fans and lovers want to find a way to enjoy DVD film their beloved MacBook Air. Here I cannot help recommending fabulous DVD ripper for MacBook Air – Pavtube BDMagic for Mac. 

This top DVD ripper for MacBook Air is highly recommended to do this job. It can help you rip DVD files to MacBook Air, iMac and MacBook Pro MP4, MOV, M4V, etc. with fast conversion speed and high output video quality on Mac OS X (including Mac OS X 10.6, 10.7, 10.8 Mountain Lion, Yosemite 10.10 and 10.9 Mavericks). And with the disc copy feature, you not only can copy the full DVD disc, but also can copy the main movies without any extras on Mac as you want. Now download this program and follow the steps below to copy your DVD movies to 12-inch MacBook Air with ease. 

Tips: If you are Windows users, you can try Pavtube BDMagic for Windows. 

Enable and Copy 200 DVD movies to play on 12-inch MacBook Air 

Step 1: Load DVD movie. 

Run the best DVD ripper for MacBook Air, click "Add video" and load music videos from DVD. Besides, you can also rip Blu-ray discs with BD drive. 



Step 2: Choose video format and set profile. 

Select the optimized video format for output. You are suggested to choose MP4/M4V from Format menu as best playable format for Mac. 

 

Tip: If necessary, adjust parameters in Settings to get a satisfying video/audio playback on 12-inch MacBook Air. 

Step 3: Convert DVD to MacBook Air. 

Hit on the "Convert" icon and start ripping DVD to MP4 for MacBook Air. When it is done, open output folder and now you can watch ripped movies on MacBook Air via USB Flash Drive. 

Now, you can get these 200 DVDs on 12-inch MacBook Air with retina display at anytime you want. Enjoy! 

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Best New DVD Releases: March 2015 In Home Entertainment

Summary: Another week, another slew of new DVDs,Blu-ray to conquer. This week ending March 3, 2015 will see the DVD movie release of one of the biggest films of 2014, a creepy Steve Carell that no one really cares about (hey, just being honest), and more!  

 
March 3 Blu-ray And DVD Releases:

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay- Part 1
Outlander: Season 1, Volume 1
Tinker Bell and the Legend of the Never Beast
Foxcatcher
Da Vinci’s Demons: The Complete Second Season
Longmire: The Complete Third Season
The Humbling 

Look at some wonderful Synopsis: 

1. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1

 
Starring: Donald Sutherland, Elizabeth Banks, Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Julianne Moore, Liam Hemsworth, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Woody Harrelson 

Summary: Having twice survived the Hunger Games, Katniss finds herself in District 13. Under the leadership of President Coin (Julianne Moore) and the advice of her trusted friends, Katniss reluctantly becomes the symbol of a mass rebellion against the Capitol and fights to save Peeta and a nation moved by her courage.

 
America’s favorite actress returns to her breakout role as Jennifer Lawrence reprises Katniss Everdeen, who is faced with a decision to make that could change the fate of an entire nation. Katniss ends up in District 13, and sets out to save Peeta, while balancing her fragile alliance with President Coin. 

2. Foxcatcher 

Starring: Anthony Michael Hall, Channing Tatum, Mark Ruffalo, Sienna Miller, Steve Carell, Vanessa Redgrave

Summary: Foxcatcher tells the true story of Olympic Wrestling Champion brothers Mark Schultz (Channing Tatum) and Dave Schultz (Mark Ruffalo) and their relationship with the eccentric John du Pont (Steve Carell) that led to murder. [Sony Pictures Classics]

 
Rolling Stone calls it, “A mesmerizing masterwork. One of the year’s very best films.” In this disturbing drama, Foxcatcher tells a dark and fascinating story of an unlikely relationship between an eccentric multi-millionaire (Steve Carell) and two Olympic champion wrestlers (Channing Tatum and Mark Ruffalo). Discover the strange bond between the trio, and uncover what happens to the troubled millionaire in this chilling drama, possibly Carell’s best performance to date. 

3.The Humbling 

Summary: Based on Philip Roth’s novel, The Humbling tells the story of a legendary stage actor who has an affair with a lesbian woman half his age at a secluded country house in Connecticut. Simon Axler (Al Pacino) has known nothing but the stage since he was thirteen. When he feels his craft slip away from him, he has a mental breakdown and retreats to the woods to live a quiet life until the daughter of his closest friend shows up at his house. The relationship takes unusual turns as people from their past surface and chaos ensues.  

ISO into MKV - Backup Blu-ray ISO to lossless MKV with subtitle on Mac

Summary: This article is relevant for converting Blu-ray ISO files to lossless MKV with subtitle on Mac so that you can enjoy your Blu-ray ISO files anywhere you want them. 

Blu-rays have been a part of our life. If you have ripped your Blu-ray movies to ISO files or have some Blu-ray ISO image files downloaded from the Internet and now want to convert Blu-ray ISO videos to a widely supported video format for easily sharing or playing on some media players, then you are definitely in the right place here! Let's learn how to rip Blu-ray ISO to MKV videos with fast ripping speed and lossless video quality.    

Puzzled at what software to use to get the job done? Here a professional Blu-ray/DVD Ripper Pro- Pavtube ByteCopy for Mac is highly recommended to help you turn to Blu-ray ISO to MKV without re-encode and keep all audio and subtitle tracks easily. (Windows version: Pavtube ByteCopy) Review: Top 5 Best Multi-track Blu-ray Ripper Reviewed. 

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How to rip Blu-ray ISO to Lossless MKV format with multi-track and subtitles on Mac 

Step 1. Load Blu-ray ISO Files

Install and launch the ISO file converter and click "Load IFO/ISO" icon to add Blu-ray ISO movies from your computer. 

Step 2. Choose output format

Here we recommend "Lossless/encoded Multi-track MKV (* mkv)" under "Multi-track Video" catalogue. Because it will save multiple video, audio and subtitle tracks form original Blu-ray ISO in output MKV and you won't suffer any quality loss.

     
Tips: 

1.If you have some Blu-ray ISO image files and want to convert Blu-ray ISO to MKV, AVI, WMV, MP4, MPEG, MOV, etc format without multi-track, please choose Pavtube BDMagic to get the work done effortlessly. 
2.Looking for a way to convert existing Blu-ray ISO collection to Surface Pro 3 so that you can watch them with multiple languages? Simply follow this article to get it done! 
3.How to import your favorite Blu-ray/DVD disk movies to FCP X with retaining the surround sound track? Read here and get out of the issues. 

Step 3. Adjust profile presets (Optional) 

You are allowed to customize profile presets as you like, you could remove unwanted audio track in Audio tab under Settings menu, and uncheck subtitles you do not need in Subtitles tab. 

Step 4. Start Blu-ray to Lossless MKV conversion 

Hit the "Convert" button to start ripping Blu-ray ISO to Lossless MKV without re-encode and keep all audio and subtitle tracks. When the lossless backup completes, you would get a single large MKV file saved in output file destination. 
  
Bingo! You made it! Now you can enjoy your Blu-ray ISO files freely. If you want to some money saving boundles, you can read here: 

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Rip Audio from Blu-rays to MP3 for moving to Samsung phones

If you have no idea on how to convert or rip protected Blu-ray audio to Samsung phones, this article will help you extract audio from Blu-ray for Samsung phones playback successfully, follow this guide below.

Do you have Blu-ray’s that you wanted to convert into other format to make it playable in your Samsung phones? But in some reasons, the transferred Blu-ray movie files could not play well on your player or you just need to the audio for listening, especially you have Blu-rays of the singer's performance you loved. With this requirement, the need for Blu-ray audio conversion is a must.

There are instances where in you will need to rip and extract audio from Blu-ray into Samsung phone supported MP3 file. Due to the Blu-rays are most protected, so you need a useful tool to rip protected Blu-ray to MP3 with ease.

Pavtube BDMagic is exactly the one you need to rip and convert Blu-ray videos to audios, such as MP3, WMA, AAC, WAV, M4A, AC3, etc. What'more, you can rip any segment, and set output file size and audio quality. The mac version is BDMagic for Mac. Now let's focus on how to convert Blu-ray to MP3 for playing on Samsung phones with Blu-ray Audio Ripper.

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How to extract audio from Blu-Ray Disc to Samsung phones?

Step 1. Load Blu-ray movie

Load your Blu-ray in the Blu-ray drive by clicking "Load file(s)".



Step 2. Choose the needed profile

Click Format bar to open the output format window. In the "Common Audio" category, you'll find Samsung phones supported MP3 audio format, just choose it as the output format.



Note: Before start the conversion, you can edit your Blu-rays first.

Click "Trim" button to set the "Start Time" and "End Time" in order to keep the segments you want and remove the ones unwanted;

Click "Setting..." button and a window will pop up. Then press "Advanced" button to adjust the volume/bitrate/sample rate and change the channel/audio codec, etc;

Step 3. Start the Blu-ray audio ripping

Once you have all the right settings, you would click the Convert button to complete Blu-ray to MP3 conversion process. After conversion, click Open to find the output audio files. Now it would be easy to transfer the converted mp3 files into your Samsung phones for playback.

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Source: Convert Blu-ray audio to Samsung phones