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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 11th, 2008
  • Comments: 12

Quick Media Converter

Quick Media Converter is free software that can be used to convert video formats easily. It comes with an easy and expert mode to suite experienced and inexperienced users. The easy mode is basically a one-screen media converter. Users begin by picking the desired output format from a list of available ones.
Options range from high [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Nov 23rd, 2008
  • Comments: 5

Blu-Ray Region Code Remover

Although Blu-Ray has won the battle of this generations HD formats against HD-DVD it is still far away from winning the battle against the DVD format. The majority of Blu-Ray players had made their way into the homes in the form of the Sony Playstation 3. PC users can purchase Blu-Ray players and the more [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Oct 10th, 2008
  • Comments: None

Walmart Decides To Keep DRM Servers

Who would have projected this? Walmart decided to keep the DRM servers running for now after announcing that they would be shutting down the DRM servers of their mp3 online store which would essentially mean that customers would not be able to transfer the music to another computer or device anymore.
It was actually very easy [...]

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Categories: Music and Video

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Sep 18th, 2008
  • Comments: 8

Eric’s Movie Database

Eric’s Movie Database is a software program to organize and manage a movie collection. The lightweight application all the features that movie collectors would except from such an application. The software program concentrates on the collection aspect unlike other movie databases who desperately try to offer a unique feature that distinguishes themselves from the other [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Sep 16th, 2008
  • Comments: 2

IMDb Finally Adds Movies

The Internet Movie Database has finally added a new feature to their site that many have yearned for. As of now content has been added that can be streamed on site. The content in question is a mix of TV episodes and independent films.
Everyone should however notice that most of the full movies and tv [...]

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Categories: Entertainment

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Sep 1st, 2008
  • Comments: None

Video To DVD

Windows users surely have no shortage of programs that convert video to dvd. The last excellent tool to create a dvd was AVStoDVD which was reviewed just a few weeks ago here at Ghacks. DeVeDe is an Open-Source multi-plattform application that can not only convert video to DVD but also to CD which offers support [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

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