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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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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 [...]

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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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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 [...]

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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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I’m pretty disappointed with the quality of movies that got released in 2007 and it looks like the trend is continuing into 2008. Of course taste differs and it could very well mean that you enjoyed a lot of movies that have been released in 2007. This article is going to list the top 10 [...]

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The Ultimate Movie DVD Tool Collection lists all the applications that are necessary to rip, create and burn movie DVDs. This article is for you if you want to backup existing movie DVDs, rip them to a computer either as a full DVD or compressed movie or if you want to create a movie DVD [...]

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