November 20, 2012
With computers growing smaller and lifestyles going mobile, less devices offer sufficient space for internal optical drives. Presently, the market is kept afloat by Blu-ray consumer home video sales, but in terms of data storage, optical discs are slowly becoming obsolete. Moreover, while most movie buyers still prefer to own a physical copy of their purchase, this market, much like the music market, will soon be taken over by streaming services.
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July 29, 2012
Is your old Apple laptop starting to struggle? Is the boot time so long that you can actually go out and buy a coffee? If so, perhaps it's time to think about upgrading your main system drive to a low cost SSD and getting rid of that useless old DVD drive. If it's an older Macbook, fret not. This tutorial will be perfect for you.
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May 24, 2012
Is DVD dead? Amazon doesn’t think so. In an attempt to bring DVDs back into awareness, Amazon has launched a new store, dedicated solely to DVD releases that have never been released for DVD before. The store, with the suitable name of “Never Before On DVD”, includes over 2000 movie and TV titles that were never released on DVD before now.
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October 24, 2011
Not too long ago, we heard about Apple making some pretty bold moves when it came to optical media. Ousting their original MacBook for the MacBook Air and removing an optical drive from the Mac Mini, Apple told the world that it wants to move away from those round discs and use other techniques for storing and moving operating systems, programs, and more.
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September 29, 2011
InfraRecorder is a free CD/DVD burning tool for Windows 2000 through 7. It's available as a desktop client or portable application for both 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems and has been translated to over 20 languages. InfraRecorder is open source software released under the GNU General Public License version 3.
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September 7, 2011
Watch everything on your favorite DVD, including special features and commentary, from a single file on your hard drive. With the right software you can overcome the file protections on your DVDs and watch them on your computer anytime. BDlot DVD ISO Master is a free piece of software that does what very few free programs can do.
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January 21, 2011
Ah, copy protection. This technology, also known as Digital Rights Management (DRM) is a necessary but often overdone part of our digital world. In theory, DVD or CD copy protection software is a tool that protects the content creators from losing sales to piracy. In reality, it’s a sometimes obtrusive technique that can alienate customers. [...]
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October 18, 2010
Thanks to a range of devices from a few inches across to many, watching videos is a cinch. But it is these sundry devices that present a stumbling block when we have to transfer a video from one device to the other. For the average user, talk of file format conversions and codecs only serves [...]
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October 11, 2010
DVDs come with a shelf life. So, it’s a careful man who will take the effort to backup his painstakingly collected collection of DVD movie titles. If you are one, then WinX DVD Ripper Platinum for Windows is the tool for the job. WinX DVD Ripper Platinum extracts (rips) a DVD and converts it to [...]
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September 23, 2010
Every once in a while, a DVD or Blu-Ray drive starts to go on the fritz. Sometimes video gets choppy or a brand new disk doesn’t even get recognized. Maybe once you put in a disc the drive starts spinning but the disc is never available on your computer. Whatever the problem, we have some [...]
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September 23, 2010
When it comes to the video converting business, the name that pops up in most people’s mind is Handbrake. And why shouldn’t it? Handbrake gets the job done and it’s free. But that’s the problem with having something convenient: you settle for that and stop looking for alternatives. There are other good video converters out [...]
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August 30, 2010
With today’s technology, we have a large variety of ways to enjoy multimedia. One moment we’re at school, on our laptop watching YouTube, and the next we’re on a bus listening to our iPod. However, our multimedia devices usually have a limited number of file formats they support. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could [...]
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July 12, 2010
If you’re anything like me, you have most of your digital media collection, such as movies and television shows, safely backed up onto your PC. This way, you never have to worry about your physical media being damaged (or stolen) and you can burn your own discs if you ever want to watch it on [...]
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June 21, 2010
There are several websites for cataloging your media collections, but if you want a similar application beyond the net, developer Joel Ares”˜s free media suite might well be the perfect solution for you. Titled the Hunter Suite, this collection of four free Mac apps (donations gladly accepted) include one each for books, DVD’s, and games [...]
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March 20, 2010
DVDs allow content creators to include high quality content, mainly due to the large storage capacity that they offer compared to CDs. The bar has been raised even higher with the arrival of Blu Ray discs. DVDs however, continue to be a very popular media among users and content creators. The thing with DVDs, as [...]
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