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Poll: Blu-ray adoption is slow; big challenges ahead

Poll: Blu-ray adoption is slow; big challenges aheadLarge TVs and projectorsIf you are running a 30" TV, then I would agree with your statement that the difference between a DVD and a Blu-Ray disk is not noticible ... But on my 140" projected screen, the difference between a...

Tags: Blu-ray, Consumer electronics, Standard DVD, Blu-ray disc, DVD

Discussion threads 2009-06-22

Next-gen DVD war goes to the jury

Next-gen DVD war goes to the juryI'll be sitting on the side-lines to let everyone else do the grunt work NTNT... waiting for $149.99 ....will take about 2 yearsThis story makes one huge assumption.That assumption is that one or the other will win the format war. History has shown that...

Tags: HD DVD, Consumer electronics, Standard DVD, HD-DVD, disc, DVD, TV, Next-Gen DVD War

Discussion threads 2006-04-18

Additional Resources

ZippyRippy 1.0.4 (Mac)

ZippyRippy is a new program developed with one goal in mind, ripping DVD media for use on personal devices. ZippyRippy is set apart by the idea that DVD conversion should be automatic without the need to endlessly tweak controls. If a DVD with a valid VIDEO_TS folder is detected when...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Zippy Software, ZippyRippy, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment

Software downloads 2009-11-06

AVADirect Nano Cube

AVADirect's $2,266 Nano Cube tries to take on Shuttle's XPC H7 5800 at its own small form factor game. Both systems come with smaller-than-normal SFF cases, and each requires sacrifices, even more than with a standard SFF PC, in exchange for its tiny dimensions. Therein lies our problem with this...

Tags: DVD, Consumer electronics, Games, Shuttle XPC, SFF, small form factor, Cube, Shuttle, Nano, DVD burner, PC, Nvidia GeForce, NVidia Corp., AVADirect, game

Product reviews 2009-11-04

Toshiba Satellite A505-S6980

You can't argue with a large-screen, value-priced laptop when it delivers good performance, and looks nice to boot. We appreciated the Toshiba Satellite A505-S6960 when we reviewed it in our 2009 back-to-school retail roundup, liking its affordability, large screen, strong battery life, and excellent-sounding speakers. Just a few months later,...

Tags: Keyboards, Microsoft Windows 7, Notebooks, Processors, Toshiba Corp., keyboard, laptop computer, Toshiba Satellite

Product reviews 2009-11-04

Holiday Gift Guide 2009: Laptop computers

This year the laptop list was a tough assignment for several reasons. First, the emergence of a new class of ultra-thin laptops--spawned by lower-cost processors from Intel and AMD--has made things more complicated. Second, there's a fresh crop of Windows 7 laptops, and...

Tags: Processor, Hard Drive, Performance, Apple MacBook, Memory, Graphics, Laptop Computer, Netbook, Computer, Intel Corp., Compaq Computer Corp., Compaq CQ61z, Timeline 1810T, Notebooks, Microsoft Windows 7, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, John Morris

Blog posts 2009-11-01

Xilisoft DVD Ripper Platinum SE 5.0.51.1030 (Windows)

Xilisoft DVD Ripper Platinum SE can rip DVD to almost all popular video and audio formats. It is easy and fast DVD ripping software with powerful and integrative functions. It includes features of both DVD Ripper and DVD Audio Ripper. You can easily rip your DVD to video formats such...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Xilisoft, Audio Format, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment

Software downloads 2009-11-01

2010 Infiniti QX56

Photo gallery:2010 Infiniti QX56Compared with sporting and agile cars such as the Infiniti G37 and FX50, the 2010 Infiniti QX56 is an odd throwback, a journey into yesteryear before the first hybrids strode the earth. Built on a truck frame, it rides like a railway car. The engine, big enough...

Tags: Infiniti QX56

Product reviews 2009-10-30

Wedding Album Maker Gold 3.07 (Windows)

Wedding Album Maker Gold is a professional photo album software which creates an exciting wedding photo slide show with music, transitions, DVD menus. It can quickly and easily produce amazing wedding photo album DVD video disc and share your love story and excitement of your wedding day on home big...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Photograph, Photo Album, Anvsoft, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment

Software downloads 2009-10-30

KLS Backup 2009 Standard 5.0.1 (Windows)

KLS Backup 2008 Standard is a backup program that allows you to create backup archives of all your important files and settings. You can back up and restore files, folders, Outlook, Outlook Express indentities, Mozilla, FireFox, Thunderbird profiles, Windows Settings, Address Books, Favorites. Features include full and incremental backup, versioning,...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, KLS Soft, KLS Backup 2008 Standard, Backups, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software

Software downloads 2009-10-30

KLS Backup 2009 Professional 5.0.1 (Windows)

KLS Backup 2008 is a backup, synchronization and disk cleaner program that allows you to back up or synchronize your data to local and network drives, CD/DVD media or FTP (SSLTLS) server. The cleanup feature is a complete solution to backup and clean private data and free up disk space....

Tags: Microsoft Windows, KLS Soft, KLS Backup 2008, Cleanup Feature, Synchronization Feature, Backups

Software downloads 2009-10-30

Accord CD Ripper Standard 6.1.5 (Windows)

Rip audio CD tracks to WAV, MP3, WMA, OGG, APE, FLAC, MP2, VQF. Incredibly fast cd ripping. Fully optimized for SSE/Hyper thread technology and get extra speed boost on multiprocessor systems. Flexible output mode: rip audio CDs to divided files one file per track or to CD images (one file...

Tags: CD, Microsoft Windows, Audio CD, Accmeware

Software downloads 2009-10-29

Envizen Digital Duo Box Pro ED8850A

You probably haven't heard of Envizen, but it's one of several off-brand companies that are putting out new digital portable TVs to replace all the obsolete analog units that were toted to sporting events or kept around for emergencies when the power went off. As implied by its name--the Envizen...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Consumer electronics, DVD, Games, digital television, TV

Product reviews 2009-10-27

2010 Scion xB

Photo gallery:2010 Scion xBWith funky styling and a reputation built around the tuner crowd and the sound-off set, the Scion xB almost single-handedly established the market for little boxy city cars in the North American market. However, the current generation xB faces stiff competition from the likes of the even-quirkier...

Tags: Performance management, Scion xB

Product reviews 2009-10-27

A Net Neutrality Solution: Opinions Wanted

First thoughts"the incumbents fought it tooth and nail"Same thing happened in the last 4 industrial revolutions!I'm broadly in favour of your improvements ... with a few caveats ... and will look at the 2 papers you plugged, sorry referenced ;-)"Users should be concerned that the Internet services they pay for...

Tags: Fiber optics, Net Neutrality, Net Neutrality Solution

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

Netflix arriving on PlayStation 3 next month

Hail PS3!! PS3 is on the roar.. After beating XBox after a long time in console sale, they are back in news again after a successful deal with netflix.I was expecting this deal a year before. But its never too late. All the things will turn out to be good...

Tags: Game players, Linux, Right Now IT, XBL, Sony PlayStation 3, NetFlix Inc., Microsoft Xbox, Sony Playstation

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

DVDRemaster 5.3 (Mac)

DVDRemaster is an utility for Mac OS X to recompress large DVDs so that they fit on standard DVD5 or video iPod. It can either copy an entire DVD and keep all tracks, copy the main feature only, or in the Pro version copy selected audio and video tracks only.In...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Copy, DVDRemaster, Apple Mac OS X, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Apple Mac OS, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-10-26

CDRoller 8.60.90 (Windows)

CDRoller finds, retrieves and copies the lost data from CD/DVD/s and Blu-Ray discs (BD and HD-DVD) that seem to be inaccessible for Windows standard tools. Key features: effectively retrieves the discs data created by 'drag and drop' CD/DVD/BD writing software. Finds and recovers a video and photos created by Sony...

Tags: built-In, Disc, DVD, Hd Dvd, Consumer Electronics, Microsoft Windows, Blu-Ray, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-10-24

Directory Lister Pro 1.21 (Windows)

Directory Lister Pro allows you to create and then save, print or send via e-mail listings of files from selected directories on hard disks, CD-ROMs, DVD-ROMs, floppy, USB storages and network shares. Listing can be in HTML, text or CSV format for easy import to Excel. You can print standard...

Tags: File, KRKsoft, Microsoft Windows, E-mail, Operating Systems, Software, Online Communications

Software downloads 2009-10-23

Tritton AX900

Among all the video game accessories available today, no other market seems to be expanding as rapidly as the video game headset. With most current-generation consoles able to produce 5.1 surround sound, finding a headset solution to handle such a request is now much easier than before. We've tested a...

Tags: Games, Tritton Technologies, headphone, headset

Product reviews 2009-10-22