Movies purchased from the iTunes Store look great in your library, complete with metadata and artwork. But when you add your own ripped movies to iTunes, all you get is a title and thumbnail. Here’s how to give your personally ripped movies the same metadata as their iTunes Store counterparts, making your library better looking and easier to navigate.
How to Loop YouTube Videos
Want to watch certain YouTube videos over and over again? There’s no longer any need to rely on huge uploads or third party browser plugins. Native YouTube looping is now available, and here’s how it works.
How to Record 4K Video on the iPhone 6s
A big new feature of the iPhone 6s is the ability to record 4K video. Here’s how to enable 4K video recording, and some tips on why higher resolution isn’t always better.
The iTunes DRM Removal Saga: NoteBurner and a Look Back at Requiem
iTunes DRM is a touchy and complicated subject, and many apps and solutions exist in this legal gray area claiming to remove iTunes DRM. We take a look at the controversy and the implications of freeing your iTunes purchases, and evaluate one of the more popular options for killing iTunes DRM.
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How to Stop OneDrive Camera Backup from Uploading Videos on iOS
Microsoft’s OneDrive service offers the most storage space for the least amount of money, making it a great place to upload backup copies of your iPhone or iPad images. But the service will also automatically upload videos, too, which are huge and eat up your bandwidth. Here’s how to tell OneDrive Camera Backup to only upload images, saving your large videos for your video editing software.
How to Reduce Netflix Bandwidth Usage to Avoid ISP Data Caps
Don’t let restrictive ISP bandwidth caps limit your online video streaming addiction. Here’s how you can configure Netflix to stream lower quality video, which saves on data usage and keeps your network free for other bandwidth-heavy tasks.
Where is the Best Place to Buy the Star Wars Digital HD Collection?
The Star Wars saga is set to make its long awaited digital debut this Friday, but with the films available on a number of platforms, where should Star Wars fans make their purchase? We take a look at the pros, cons, and alternatives for getting your digital Star Wars fix.
Your Mac Geek Gab Media Server Questions Answered!
After appearing on a recent episode of the Mac Geek Gab to talk about home media servers and movie management, I received many great questions from listeners. Here are my answers to some of questions that required a response longer than a Tweet. Come join the discussion and be sure to grab Mac Geek Gab Episode 485 for the full story!
HDMI 2.0 Brings 60Hz 4K Video & 32 Channels of Audio
The introduction of 4K televisions has increased the demands of today’s interface specifications, and the HDMI Licensing Organization has responded by releasing HDMI 2.0, a new specification that supports 4K video at up to 60 Hz, along with 32 channels of audio and a much higher overall bandwidth.
New Internal Drive from MCE Brings Blu-ray to iMac & Mac mini
Although an original member of the Blu-ray Disc Association, Apple has never embraced the format, calling it a “bag of hurt” and preferring to guide customers towards its own “high definition” content via the iTunes Store. Mac owners could still use Blu-ray optical drives, although there was no official support in OS X for the commercial Blu-ray video format. Still, determined fans of high quality, and high capacity, optical media resigned themselves to attaching external Blu-ray drives to their iMacs…