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Bridge widens between next-gen DVDs
News Tom Adams, president of Adams Media Research, said the 18-month period of exclusivity for HD DVDs at the two studios comes during slow but growing sales for the new technology and will have little impact on consumers.
5 September 2007, 10:02 > More matches in News
Denon DVD-1930: Squeeze the best pictures from your DVDs
Crave Crave, that's who: because we care more about quality than cost in these high-definition days, and we can't bear Scart leads to sully our DVDs on our glorious hi-def screens. These days Tesco will sell you a DVD player for £16, so who's gonna cough...
Tags: denon, component, hd, dvd player
5 January 2007, 9:00 > More matches in Crave
Samsung DVD-HD870: See your DVDs in pseudo high definition
Crave The main advantage to upscaling DVD players, when they have HDMI out, is that they offer a higher quality, digital route to get your DVDs on to your HD television. The Samsung DVD-HD870 is designed to do one thing -- breathe new life into your DVD...
Tags: samsung, hd, definition, discs
30 July 2007, 12:07 > More matches in Crave
New hi-def DVDs to use old video tech?
News As Hollywood readies its new and controversial high-definition DVDs, at least one major studio is leaving some of the most advanced parts of the new disc formats on the table in favour of technology that's more than a decade old.
Tags: matter, production, high definition, blu
30 November 2005, 9:33 > More matches in News
Writable HD DVDs due in 2006
News A group led by Toshiba supports a technology called HD DVD for next-generation DVDs, which promise much greater capacity for high-definition movies, while a camp led by Sony backs another format, known as Blu-ray.
9 June 2005, 10:41 > More matches in News
Iomega looking to make 800GB DVDs
News Storage company Iomega is looking to increase the capacity of DVDs up to 100 times, meaning it could, conceivably, create 800GB discs. Current DVDs can hold up to about 8.5GB of data. The company announced on Tuesday that it had been issued a...
27 May 2005, 10:06 > More matches in News
Next-gen DVDs excite feature designers
News These are the people who add the director's comments or actor bios to DVDs. Standard DVDs offered so few options for special features that it required little computer know-how. As HD DVD and Blu-ray slug it out in a public relations battle, one...
9 August 2006, 11:53 > More matches in News
Will Blu-ray DVDs be too expensive?
News Because Sony's Blu-ray disc technology appears to be the front-runner in the nasty fight to determine how the DVDs of the future are produced, movie studios and disc manufacturers are beginning to come to terms with the financial realities of the...
29 November 2005, 9:47 > More matches in News
New DVDs spark copy-protection chaos
News When the first high-definition DVDs finally hit shelves this spring, a mad scramble may ensue -- not for the discs themselves, but to figure out what computers and devices are actually able to play them in their full glory.
17 February 2006, 12:09 > More matches in News
iLuv i1055: 7-inch screen for DVDs and iPods
Crave It's an interesting idea, but this ability in a way negates the device's other primary function: DVD playback -- if all your movies are on an iPod, why bother carrying around DVDs? Our issue is that it's most likely to be adopted by iPod fans who...
Tags: iluv, cd dvd, dvd player, hands
19 March 2007, 10:51 > More matches in Crave
LG DP391B: A work of art that happens to play DVDs
Crave The LG DP391B truly is a pretty little thing. We've seen a fair few portable DVD players in our time, and almost without exception they're the same drearily functional clamshell design, where the lid flips open to reveal the disc compartment and a...
Tags: lg electronics, disc, tray, lg
31 July 2008, 11:52 > More matches in Crave
Virtual CAT
Downloads To automatically catalog content of CDs, DVDs and all other medias so you can browse all your files and folders virtually without having to have the media inserted in the drive. Everyone that burns CDs and DVDs and have lots of these must have a...
22 March 2007, 3:31 > More matches in Downloads
M2Convert for iPhone
Downloads M2Convert for iPhone converts DVDs and multimedia files from any supported format (including AVI, ASF, WMV, MOV, MPG, MPEG, AVC, OGG, MP4, DivX, FLV, IFO, MP3, WMA, WAV, AAC) to Apple iPod compatible format using H.264 or MPEG-4 compression, with...
19 July 2007, 5:16 > More matches in Downloads
Flash CD & DVD Burner
Downloads Burn audio, video, and data CDs/DVDs and create ISO files. Flash CD & DVD Burner lets you create quality audio, video, and data CDs/DVDs with an interface with drag and drop support. Create audio CDs from MP3, WAV, WMA, and OGG and video DVDs from...
17 November 2006, 12:46 > More matches in Downloads
M2Convert for iPod
Downloads M2Convert for iPod converts DVDs and multimedia files from any supported format (including AVI, ASF, WMV, MOV, MPG, MPEG, AVC, OGG, MP4, DivX, FLV (Youtube), IFO, MP3, WMA, WAV and more) to Apple iPod compatible format using H.264 or MPEG-4...
14 July 2007, 5:01 > More matches in Downloads


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