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  • Author: Cheryl
  • Published: Jan 25th, 2009
  • Comments: 13

DVD Sales Down. What do You Think the Reasons are?

At the recently concluded Consumer Electronics Show (CES), the Digital Entertainment Group released its figures for DVD spending in the United States in 2008. The results were a 5.5% decrease from the previous year.
DEG’s figures aren’t just for outright sales of DVDs, but also include DVD rentals and Blu-Ray disc sales. Rental revenue stayed nearly [...]

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Categories: Entertainment, Music and Video, ask the readers

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Dec 30th, 2007
  • Comments: 3

Make your DVD Drive play all DVDs

Today I had a problem playing a Region 2 DVD on my Region 1 DVD drive installed in Windows. I was asked to change the Region of my DVD drive to play the DVD movie and that I would only have 3 changes left become the change would become permanent. This was a relative new [...]

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Categories: Hardware, Knowledge

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Aug 28th, 2007
  • Comments: 5

Organize Books, Games, DVDs and CDs with Libra

I bought a lot of games, dvds and cds in the last 25 years and have a rather large collection at home. I also lend media to friends and sometimes forgot about it for a couple of months or even years until my friend brought it back to me. Using a software to organize all my books, games, CDs and DVDs was never a top priority in my life because it would literally take ages to add all of my items into the software.

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Categories: Operating Systems, Tools, Windows

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Feb 20th, 2006
  • Comments: None

Recovering Scratchted CDs

CDs don´t last forever. They get scratches for instance and sometimes these make the CD or some sectors become unreadable. Now, what can you do if you desperately need the data on the CD ? The article Recovering Scratched CDs from hardwaresecrets.com tries to answer this question.

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Categories: Knowledge

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