Neowin.net

Hey folks...looks like Intervideo has been busy and popped out another version of the famous WinDVD software...

WinDVD Platinum is the latest version of WinDVD. It has improved video and audio, and has added several brand new features. It is still a simple-to-use DVD player with all the features of a standard consumer DVD player, but there's so much more for you.

It still gives you all the great features of WinDVD Platinum like DivX support, Dolby Virtual Speaker and Video Effect, but some new extras were added, including: Movie Encyclopedia; Hyper-Threading Technology Support; Progressive De-interlacing; and support for gamma correction, 96 kHz/24 Bit Audio Decoding, LanguageMate, Windows Media support and much more.

Changes in Current Version:
- Full support for InterActual DVD content
- New Progressive Scan mode "Qualiview"
- Smart Stretch for converting 4:3 content in to 16:9, and vice-versa

News source: Betanews
Download: InterVideo WinDVD Platinum v5.3

Wi-Fi radiates an Internet connection that multiple computers within 300 feet can share at fast speeds. Wi-Fi hot spots have cropped up over the last couple of years in coffee shops, hotels and airports in bigger U.S. cities.

Some small towns, including Half Moon Bay, Calif., and Athens, Ga., have started experimenting with Wi-Fi as a way to provide relatively cheap, easy access to high-speed Internet.

The 51,000 residents of Cerritos, located 26 miles southeast of Los Angeles, have not had DSL broadband access to the Internet because the city is too far from the telephone company's central office. Cable Internet access has not been an option, either, Hylton said.

Residents in Cerritos have asked city officials to find a way to bring broadband to the city for some time.

"We're pleased that our residents will at last have an option for broadband that will be more affordable than is currently available," Hylton said.