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Oct 21
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I don’t watch much television because frankly I can’t stay awake during the commercials. I have a TIVO but it’s not HD quality and I’m no longer investing money into technology that only does one thing and not all that good to boot. I do enjoy watching movies and since I travel a lot for my job, it’s nice to have them on my MacBook Pro or iPod Touch. I came across VisualHub after watching an episode from one of Leo Laporte tech shows and thought that is exactly what I need to transfer movies to my iPod. After shelling out the $23.32 (yes, I save my receipts!) I found that this was one of the best tools around for compressing and combining video files. It’s so easy to use and depending on the processor of your Mac, it can convert a 2 hour movie in under an hour. While not exactly speedy it does a good job on the quality which is more important to me.
Sadly, Techspansion’s website has been shuttered and the products have been discontinued. Tyler Loch (Techspansion’s founder) left a note on Techspansion: “After much soul-searching (it’s not you, it’s me), for personal reasons, Techspansion is closing its virtual doors.” His choice is understandable, but we will definitely miss VisualHub (not to mention the laugh-out-loud funniest release notes in software history). Best of luck to Tyler.
The good news is that the source code from Tyler’s projects are now up on SourceForge so hopefully we’ll see great software resurrected into an even greater open source application for all to enjoy. Thank you Tyler!
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