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Los Angeles man, Johnny Ray Gasca, was sentenced to seven years in federal prison for using a video camcorder in a movie theatre.
Gasca was arrested in September, 2002 when he was found carrying an expensive recording equipment in a large leather bag during the private screening of "The Core". After the arrest, he fled the custody for 15 months.
U.S. District Judge Dean Pregerson found Gasca guilty of three misdemeanor counts of copyright infrinhement.
Source: Reuters
As insane as the idea might be, 3DLabs has announced the world's first media processor for phones and PDAs that is capable of 720p resolution AVC/H.264 video playback.
The chip is 3DLabs' first product after it announced to split off from Creative who has owned the company for the last four years. Chip is called DMS-02 and it is a multi-core, ARM-based array of floating point processors.
Company's obvious target market is the expanding portable video player market and the chip is obviously capable of decoding also "standard" resolution videos. For those not familiar with the HDTV acronyms. 720p stands for progressive 1280x720 resolution which means that the video has three times more pixels (or "details") than a regular TV or DVD clip.
