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5 Cool Hacks for Your Entertainment Gadgets
PC World Articles - September 4, 2008
Add external storage to your TiVo, beef up your Xbox 360, rip DVDs to your media player, play your iTunes purchases on any device, and use your standard cable remote to skip commercials.
Toshiba XDE DVD Player: Better than Blu-Ray?
Digital Trends Talk Backs - August 26, 2008
OK let’s answer the question in the title right up front. I’ve been using the new Toshiba XDE DVD player for about a week and it isn’t better than my Playstation 3 (PS3) Blu-Ray player. But Toshiba did some things very right and it ...
How To Repair A Scratched CD or DVD
TechLore - August 12, 2008
You arrive home, giggling and overjoyed, only to find that the disc... won't... play.  You try everything to get it to work... but nothing works, because there's a bunch of scratches and Cheeto-prints on the back of the disk from the inconsidera...
A Mom's Guide to DVD Players -- The good, the Bad and the Ugly
TechLore - April 17, 2008
Keeping kids entertained in the car can be a monumental task. Whether you are running errands around town or on a cross country trip, keeping little minds occupied and little hands out of trouble can be a lesson in extreme frustration. Enter the port...
How Blu-Ray Won the Fight and Why It Probably Won't Matter
Digital Trends Talk Backs - February 13, 2008
Many retailers have been piling on what has been a long string of bad news for the HD DVD camp and announced they were going to stop selling HD DVD players. Most recently, Best Buy and Netflix indicated they would be dropping HD DVD. Then, one Blu-Ra...
Today's Top DVD Players
TechLore - November 27, 2007
The world of DVD players is a different place than it was a decade ago. Back in those days, we were just glad that DVD players existed. At least we could go digital, and no longer be trapped in the world of VHS . Now we have various types of DVD play...
Sansa TakeTV: A First Look
TechLore - November 19, 2007
Looking for an easy way to take videos from your computer and watch them on your TV? There are certainly a variety of solutions to that problem available today, whether you decide to burn a DVD, build a media PC, or use one of the myriad of wireless ...
Surge Protectors 101
TechLore - October 9, 2007
It had a rectangular body with a snake-like appendage that connected it to a plug on the wall. A number of helpless electrical devices plugged into the rectangular brick that was its power source. Its name was Surge Protector–the guardian of co...
What is the Intel Viiv?
TechLore - June 26, 2007
(Syndicated from MyDigitalEntertainer.com )  You’ve probably seen the commercials and heard the hype. But what exactly is Microsoft’s Intel Viiv? Simply put, Intel Viiv (rhymes with “five”) is a catch-all for the latest i...
Wal-Mart HD DVD: To Be or Not To Be?
Digital Trends Talk Backs - April 27, 2007
That is the question. Wal-Mart is officially saying they didn’t pick sides, but their spokesman did also say they expected consumers to pick a winner in the coming months. Currently they sell the $350 Toshiba HD-D1 HD DVD and the $900 Phil...
Wal-Mart Names HD DVD the Winner
Digital Trends Talk Backs - April 23, 2007
There is one retailer that has the power to call the winner of the protracted Blu-Ray vs. HD DVD fight and that vendor is Wal-Mart. Over the weekend they apparently leaked plans to bring in a massive number of low cost (possibly sub $200) HD DVD play...
LG Super Multi Blue: The War Between Blu-ray and HD-DVD Continues
TechLore - January 10, 2007
Following up my article from 2 years ago on this topic...I just got back from CES, and one of the cool things I saw while there was LG's new "Super Multi Blue" drive.  It reads HD-DVD's and reads and writes Blu-Ray discs. ...
Playstation, Xbox, and Wii: Why did Sony Fail?
Digital Trends Talk Backs - December 12, 2006
Last week we talked about the potential ending for Blu-Ray DVD players which was largely the result of execution problems with the PlayStation 3. Since then NPD has indicated, in terms of sales, the PS3 will fall well short of the numbers we used in ...
DVD Player Shopping Survey
eCoustics Articles - October 5, 2006
Gotcha: More Firmware Updates
PC World Articles - August 25, 2006
Your high-definition DVD player--and other electronic gear--may require new firmware to correct problems.

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