- How to Rip a DVD or Blu-ray Movie
- Digital Trends Guides - July 24, 2009
- Are you ready to turn outlaw?Hollywood wants you to buy its movies on DVD and Blu-ray disc, but then it wants to control what you do with them once you get home. We’re going to show you how to do something that Hollywood most definitely does no...
- Is Upconverting Worth It?
- PC World Articles - July 20, 2009
- Gordon Walter wants to know if an upscaling DVD player will improve the picture on his HDTV
- Is Blu-ray Worth Buying?
- Digital Trends Guides - December 30, 2008
- With stock values plummeting and your 401K on the brink of becoming a 40K, it’s getting increasingly hard to look at next-generation Blu-ray disc players as a sound investment.The big question: While the high-definition storage format quickly o...
- 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. ...