Copy Oscar “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” DVD to DVD/ISO Image Fast

How to protect all your Star Wars DVD discs from damage caused by repeated playback or physical broken? The best way is to copy your Star Wars DVD to DVD/ISO image with no quality loss to store in your storage device. So, here is a guide for you to copy 2016 Oscar “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” DVD to DVD/ISO image fast. As long as you can get the way, you can copy all your Star War series DVD discs or other Oscar DVD movies to DVD/ISO image with no problem 

What Technologies Bring Off Fast DVD Copy of Star Wars: The Force Awakens? 

Bypass DVD Copy Protections: The Oscar “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” DVD has high-tech copy protections inside, which challenges common DVD clone software and makes them crash or work out of order during personal DVD backup. Rare DVD cloner can defeat this, but some cutting-edge technology is built inside Pavtube DVDAid to help get out from under. It breaks the access to such encrypted DVDs like Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Carol, Mad Max: Fury Road etc. 

Deliver Ultrafast DVD Copy Speed: Breaking through the traditional and unscientific way of decrypting original DVDs and reforming new DVDs, Pavtube DVDAid fully makes use of NVIDIA CUDA technology and AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing (APP) to largely accelerate DVD encoding speed from one format to another. 

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Steps to Copy Star Wars: The Force Awakens DVD to DVD/ISO Image Fast 

Part One. 1:1 Backup DVD with Pavtube DVDAid 

Step 1. Load Oscar “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” DVD 

Insert Oscar Star Wars: The Force Awakens DVD disc into DVD drive. Lauch Pavtube DVDAid, click the “Load from Disc” button and import source DVD into this app. 

 

Tips: 

1. It would take a little longer if this is the first time you load one DVD into Pavtube DVDAid, but it would be faster when it is second or more time. 

2. It allows you to batch convert your Star Wars DVD collections or other Oscar DVD movies to save your much time. 

Step 2: Copy DVD content to PC hard drive 

To make a quick and full copy of source DVD movie, you can click “copy the entire disc” button in the menu bar. In this way, all contents of the DVD disc will be saved to computer hard drive, including the disc menu, video streams, audio tracks, subtitles, commentary, extras, etc. Once the backup process finishes, you will get a DVD folder named as Video_TS. 

Part Two. Create Free DVD ISO Image File with ImgBurn 

Step 1. Load DVD Video_TS folder to ImgBurn 

Free download and install ImgBurn, and then choose “Create image from files/folders” button. Browse to the DVD folder or just drag & drop Video_TS folders along with any other file into ImgBurn as source. 

 

Step 2. Set in ImgBurn for DVD ISO creation 

In “Option” tab on the right size of ImgBurn, set File System to “UDF” and UDF Revison to “2.50”. Switch to Labels tab and type the name of the film in the UDF box. Don’t forget to set output DVD ISO image destination on your computer. Make sure the free space is enough for generated DVD/ISO image. 

 

Step 3. Start to create DVD/ISO image file 

Hit on the Build icon and start to create free DVD/ISO image file from copied Video_TS folder. The creation process will complete in about 10-20 minutes. 

 

Now, you can backup the converted Oscar “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” DVD to a storage device for storing. You can copy your other DVD discs to DVD/ISO following the same steps to protect all your DVD discs from damage caused by repeated playback or physical broken. 

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Copy Oscars 2016 Nominations To Plex For Nvidia Shield Android TV

The 88th Academy Awards ceremony will honor the best films of 2015 and is scheduled to take place on February 28, 2016. And up to now, you have could read the List of Oscar Nominations 2016. In the list, there must be some films that you have enjoyed, like The Martian, Mad Max: Fury Road, Brooklyn, etc. Of course, I believe that there are more movies that you haven’t watched yet. If so, read on to learn how to backup the Oscars 2016 Nominations to Plex for Nvidia Shield Android TV so that you can view them one by one in your space time. 

 

Perhaps, you have some Oscars 2016 Nominations movies in Blu-ray/DVD discs no matter you paid for them or borrowed from friends or you have download some from torrent sites. Backup these Oscars 2016 Nominations to Plex/Nvidia Shield supported format can make you enjoy Oscars 2016 Nominations with Plex via Nvidia Shield Android TV conveniently and you also don’t worry about scratching your precious discs. 

So the next question is how to backup Oscars 2016 Nominations Blu-ray/DVD discs and all downloaded movies to Plex for Nvidia Shield Android TV? It will be a simple job when you have a powerful enough video converter. 

Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate is such a tool that can help you rip Oscars 2016 Nomination movies in Blu-ray/DVD discs to Plex for Nvidia Shield Android TV and transcode any format videos downloaded from YTS, KICKASSTORRENTS, etc to a friendly format that you can watch these Oscars Nomination movies with Plex via Nvidia Shield Android TV. 

Key Features of Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate: 

- Rip any copy protected and region locked Blu-ray/DVD to H.265, MP4, MKV, AVI, MOV, etc 

- Transcode any 4K/2K/SD/HD video to another popular video and audio format 

- Compress 4K to 1080p video, 1080p to 720p video, etc 

- Adjust A/V codec, size, bitrate, frame rate, sample rate, etc and display aspect ratio. 

- Trim, crop, split and merge video. 

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How to Backup Oscars 2016 Nominations to Plex for Nvidia Shield Android TV? 

See also >> 12 Oscar-Winning Movies You Say You’ll Watch But Never Do 

Step 1: Add source video 

For disc-based content, navigate to “File” > “Load from disc” to load Oscars 2016 Nomination Blu-ray/DVD movies to the app. For normal video, choose “Add video/audio” to add local movies to the software. Pls bear in mind that you can add more than one movies at a time since the program has batch conversion function. And you can select the desired subtitle/audio track, even forced subtitle below the chapter list. 

 

Step 2: Choose output format 

Click “Format” to open the window where holds hundreds of video formats. According to the supported format of Plex and Nvidia Shield Android TV, you have many choices. But here HD MP4 is suggested for the most compatible feature and high resolution. 

 

Tip: “Settings” icon next to “Format” can give you surprise. You can change the video resolution, size, codec and other parameters and preview the video size in the chart. If you need to compress 4k to 1080p, you just need to change the number in “Size” box to 1080p. 

 

Step 3: Start to backup Oscars 2016 Nominations to Plex for Nvidia Shield Android TV 

Now hit on the “Convert” button on software main interface to start the Blu-ray/DVD/Video to MP4 for Plex and Nvidia Shield Android TV conversion. After conversion, hit “Open” or “Open output folder” to quick locate generated MP4 files. 

Finally, transfer the Oscars 2016 Nominations to Plex. Then stream these Oscars movies with Plex via Nvidia Shield on your HD TV. 

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Academy Sues Over Oscar Gift Bags That Include Sex Toys, Vaporizers

For the past decade, the Academy has continually disavowed “Oscar gift bags,” but this year the org is taking it further, suingDistinctive Assets.

On Feb. 16, the Academy went to California federal court and filed against Lash Fary, otherwise known as Distinctive Assets. The marketing company offers products to celebrities as a promotion and has been creating gift bags for several years.

Distinctive Assets is promoting its gifts with slogans such as “Everyone Wins at the Oscars! Nominee Gift Bags.” The company has received a lot of coverage by offering its goodies to Academy Award nominees, and the Academy last year asked for disclaimers that it has no affiliation with these packages.

“Last year, the Academy attempted to address Distinctive Assets’ false and infringing representation without litigation. We had no choice but to file a lawsuit,” an Academy spokesperson said on Friday.

The filing by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, repped by Quinn Emanuel attorneys, are seeking an injunction and trebled profits and damages, after clashing with the company last year.

In this week’s filing, the Academy said, “Distinctive Assets’ continued use of the Academy’s trademarks not only infringes the Academy’s trademarks, but it is also likely to dilute the distinctiveness of the Academy’s famous trademarks and tarnish their goodwill.”

The complaint said that media coverage of the 2016 gift bags has focused on “the less-than-wholesome nature of some of the products contained in the bags,” citing a $5,500 certificate for plastic surgery, a $1,900 “vampire breast lift,” a $250 sex toy and a $250 marijuana vaporizer.

The Academy is already fighting to maintain its image amid the #OscarsSoWhite controversy.

In 2006, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences entered into long negotiations with the IRS. The Academy agreed to pay taxes on gift bags handed out to presenters and performers. As part of the settlement with the IRS, neither side would discuss the amount paid, or how far back the taxes extended.

At that point, the Academy decided to discontinue the gift bags — and other companies took over.

In 2012, Distinctive Assets offered an Everybody Wins package, touting the gifts as a great consolation prize for anyone who didn’t win an Oscar in the directing or four acting categories.

Last year, Distinctive Assets offered gifts that were more “wholesome,” including a luxury train ride through the Canadian Rockies worth more than $14,500; a “glamping” trip valued at $12,500; a year’s worth of all-Audi A4 car rental from Silvercar valued at $20,000; and a Reset Yourself lifestyle makeover package worth more than $14,200.

However, last year’s package also included a vibrator, vaporizer and $20,000 gift certificate to have Enigma Life founder Olessia Kantor fly out to meet with each nominee “to discuss their 2015 horoscope, analyze dreams and teach them mind control techniques.”

Meanwhile, one of this year’s items, a luxury trip to Israel funded by that company’s government, has come under fire from Artists for Palestine UK, with the organization imploring attendees to “give your bag to a Palestinian refugee.”

Last year, immediately following the Oscar ceremony, a rep at 3D Public Relations and Marketing told Variety that all of the losing nominees in the acting and directing categories (and host Neil Patrick Harris) accepted these bags. That meant 21 bags went out, at an estimated value of more than $2.5 million.

While the bags are great promotion for the companies involved, it’s dubious how many of the offers are redeemed by the stars. When the Academy gave out gift bags, George Clooney was one of the stars who donated the goods to charity. At an auction, his bag brought $45,000.

The Academy spokesperson also said on Wednesday, “Distinctive Assets has been falsely representing that its extravagant ‘gift bags’ [are] redistributed by the Academy, at its direction, or with its endorsement or approval. The Academy has no affiliation with Distinctive Assets. It does not hire Distinctive Assets, consult with it, or help it distribute gift bags. All reports of an ‘official Oscar gift bag,’ or a fight bag distributed at the Oscars containing the products Distinctive Assets promotes, are untrue.”

Do Your Oscar Predictions Stack Up? Here’s What The Data Says

Predicting the Oscars is tough. We can’t poll Oscar voters, and we don’t know all that much about them. In the absence of direct data, we have to find a way to get inside the voters’ heads to find out who might win.

But whether you’re participating in an Oscar pool or wagering heavily on Irish gambling sites, everyone following the race is trying to figure out who has the edge. The FiveThirtyEight model tries to evaluate the state of the race by figuring out which award shows — like the Directors Guild and the Golden Globes — have historically predicted the winners.

Our model has worked pretty well in the past, but here at FiveThirtyEight, we think it’s always worth trying to find new ways to solve hard problems. Over the past month, we’ve talked to eight amateur modelers who think they’ve found a better way to gauge the state of the Oscar race.

Let’s revisit them each briefly:

• First, we looked at models that try to mine the Internet to figure out who could win an Oscar. Burak Tekin’s model uses Google News; Paul Singman’s pulls from tweets. Both of these models get more and more accurate the closer we get to the big day — Feb. 28.
• Next, we looked at models that take in either a little bit or a whole lot of data to figure out the Oscars. Brian Goegan built a model that looks at earlier award shows and additional nominations to figure out a winner. Zach Wissner-Gross and Randi Goldman boiled their data down to box office dollars and Rotten Tomatoes scores to find their leaders.
• Third, we checked out models that try to get inside the heads of people who think like the Academy. James England asks people to vote on films and performances they’ve seen in head-to-head matchups. Nigel Henry and his crew at Solution by Simulation analyze the MovieLens data set to find people who gave high ratings to films that won Oscars in the past and to see which films they liked this time around.
• Lastly, we looked at two models that analyze what’s been written about movies to pick winners. Allison Walker analyzes film reviews for words that have historically been used to describe Oscar winners. Gary Angel and his team at Ernst & Young analyze cultural publications and film reviews to find which Oscar nominee best fits with the current Hollywood worldview.

Oscar voting began Friday and will continue through Feb. 23. With just over a week to go before the ceremony, we checked back in with each of the modelers for their current picks.

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The best picture race has been a doozy: “Mad Max: Fury Road” got off to a strong start in our model, dueling with “Spotlight” in the early part of January. Then “Spotlight” began to pull ahead, only to fall behind “The Big Short” after the highly predictive Producers Guild awards. Once the Screen Actors Guild awards had been announced, however, the two films were neck and neck — until “The Revenant” pulled off huge wins at the Directors Guild and BAFTAs, the awards from the British Academy. Our model has “The Revenant” with a decisive lead going into the Academy Awards, but “The Big Short” and “Spotlight” can’t be counted out.

Here’s what each of the models says as of Tuesday. Not all the modelers were able to convert their picks into probabilities — I mean, we don’t either, so I hardly blame them — but for those who felt confident enough to put a number to it, we have the current probability:

Best picture

MODELER	SOURCE	WINNER	CHANCE	RUNNER-UP	CHANCE
Tekin	Google News	The Revenant	46%	Spotlight	27%
Singman	Twitter	The Revenant	54	Spotlight	24
Goegan	Award wins	The Revenant	66	Spotlight	34
Zach & Randi	Box office & rating	Brooklyn	30	Mad Max	25
England	Head to head	Spotlight	28	Mad Max	22
Henry	MovieLens	Room	—	Spotlight	—
Angel	Press analysis	The Big Short	—	Spotlight	—
Walker	Review language	The Revenant	—	Mad Max	—

Although there’s some love for “Mad Max: Fury Road,” “The Big Short,” “Room” and “Brooklyn,” it looks like our two front-runners are “The Revenant” and “Spotlight.”

Best director

MODELER	SOURCE	WINNER	CHANCE	RUNNER-UP	CHANCE
Tekin	Google News	Iñárritu	67%	Miller	17%
Singman	Twitter	Iñárritu	58	Miller	22
Goegan	Award wins	Iñárritu	83	Miller	13
Zach & Randi	Box office & rating	Miller	41	McCarthy	25
England	Head to head	Miller	50	Iñárritu	25
Henry	MovieLens	Abrahamson	—	—	—
Angel	Press analysis	—	—	—	—
Walker	Review language	Miller	—	Iñárritu	—

In our model, this category comes down to the winner of the Directors Guild award. Before Alejandro G. Iñárritu won it for “The Revenant,” George Miller, who directed “Mad Max: Fury Road,” had scooped up most of the big wins. Among the seven modelers who were able to apply their methodology to this category, all but one have one of those two directors ahead.

Best actor

MODELER	SOURCE	WINNER	CHANCE	RUNNER UP	CHANCE
Tekin	Google News	DiCaprio	39%	Fassbender	39%
Singman	Twitter	DiCaprio	90	Redmayne	5
Goegan	Award wins	DiCaprio	100	Fassbender	<1
Zach & Randi	Box office & rating	DiCaprio	58	Fassbender	38
England	Head to head	DiCaprio	72	Damon	13
Henry	MovieLens	DiCaprio	—	Damon	—
Angel	Press analysis	Cranston	—	Fassbender	—
Walker	Review language	DiCaprio	—	Cranston	—

There appears to be near consensus here that Leonardo DiCaprio (“The Revenant”) will win. In 1,000 years, aliens from a star 999.5 light-years away will arrive on Earth with an intent to destroy it if Leo doesn’t get the shiny statue. And we will deserve it.

The lone dissent: The Ernst & Young team finds that Bryan Cranston (“Trumbo”) is ahead in the race. (Angel reports that their model for best actor is still a bit of a work in progress.)

Best actress

MODELER	SOURCE	WINNER	CHANCE	RUNNER-UP	CHANCE
Tekin	Google News	Ronan	33%	Lawrence	27%
Singman	Twitter	Larson	34	Lawrence	31
Goegan	Award wins	Larson	100	Ronan	<1
Zach & Randi	Box office & rating	Lawrence	70	Blanchett	16
England	Head to head	Larson	73	Ronan	15
Henry	MovieLens	Rampling	—	Larson	—
Angel	Press analysis	Lawrence	—	Larson	—
Walker	Review language	Larson	—	Ronan	—

There’s a surprising amount of variation in this category! Our model decisively has Brie Larson (“Room”) in the lead. But among the guest modelers, every nominee appears in at least the top two, and four are the leaders in at least one model.

This category could prove a solid test for methodological soundness. The models that back Larson display a strong degree of confidence, though: Goegan’s even says it’s a virtual lock. Perhaps a consensus will emerge, but honestly, it’s way more fun this way.

Supporting actress

MODELER	SOURCE	WINNER	CHANCE	RUNNER-UP	CHANCE
Tekin	Google News	Winslet	36%	Vikander	35%
Singman	Twitter	Winslet	39	Vikander	31
Goegan	Award wins	Vikander	49	Winslet	42
Zach & Randi	Box office & rating	—	—	—	—
England	Head to head	Vikander	28	Mara	25
Henry	MovieLens	McAdams	—	Leigh	—
Angel	Press analysis	—	—	—	—
Walker	Review language	Vikander	—	Winslet	—

Six of the models were able to adapt to make a prediction in the supporting categories and they are split.

Our model has Kate Winslet (“Steve Jobs”) in second place after she got a bump from the BAFTAs, but it’s not going to be enough to take the lead away from Alicia Vikander (“The Danish Girl”). The models that look at Internet buzz seem to have picked up on this recent surge and are picking Winslet. The ones that look at the language of reviews, the head-to-head preferences of people who saw the films, and award wins have Vikander on top. This could be a fun one.

Supporting actor

MODELER	SOURCE	WINNER	CHANCE	RUNNER-UP	CHANCE
Tekin	Google News	Stallone	41%	Rylance	27%
Singman	Twitter	Hardy	45	Stallone	32
Goegan	Award wins	Stallone	46	Rylance	24
Zach & Randi	Box office & rating	—	—	—	—
England	Head to head	Ruffalo	25	Hardy	24
Henry	MovieLens	Ruffalo	—	Bale	—
Angel	Press analysis	—	—	—	—
Walker	Review language	Rylance	—	Hardy	—

I’m going to come right out and say it — this category is a catastrophe. The front-runner in our model, Sylvester Stallone (“Creed”), hasn’t won anything in a month; the winner of the Screen Actors Guild award, Idris Elba (“Beasts of No Nation”), wasn’t nominated for an Oscar; and the early favorite, Mark Rylance (“Bridge of Spies”), is only on the board because of a last-minute win at the BAFTAs. I have very low confidence in our state-of-the-race model’s ability to provide legitimate insight into the eventual winner: It’s a coin toss at best and a dice roll at worst.

Can these folks help us out?

Nope. Everyone’s all over the map here. This should be another fantastically fun category to watch. I hope Mark Ruffalo (“Spotlight”) wins because I want to be able to say “Academy Award winner and also The Hulk, Mark Ruffalo” on first reference moving forward.

The Rest

Several of the modelers went out of their way to submit predictions outside of the top six categories.

Goegan sent in results for all the feature-length categories. We’ll hit the lot of them next week, but he has “The Big Short” and “Spotlight” winning best adapted and original screenplay, respectively, “Son of Saul” taking best foreign film, “The Revenant” winning the two sound awards and cinematography, and “Mad Max: Fury Road” winning the editing, costumes and makeup prizes.

Goegan, Singman, Henry’s team and Zach and Randi all said “Inside Out” is the odds-on favorite to win best animated feature. Singman has “Inside Out” also winning best original screenplay and “The Big Short” winning best adapted screenplay. Henry’s team has “Mustang” winning best foreign film and “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” winning best visual effects and best score.

We’ll talk to all of these folks again next week for final predictions going into the Oscars. Until then, check out our ongoing coverage and our interactive tracking the state of the Oscar race.