ADS DVD Xpress DX2: Legal, but imperfect, DVD Copying

Published on July 25, 2006 to Networking

ADS Tech says its DVD Xpress DX2 is an "ideal" solution for making legal copies of your store-bought DVDs. But Mike Baggaley found that it all depends on your definition of "ideal" is. Read more

Toshiba's HD-A1 HD-DVD Player: Movies At 1080i... If You Can Get 'em

Published on April 20, 2006 to Networking

Toshiba's HD-A1 is the first HD-DVD player to hit store shelves. Dan Bradley put his own money on the line to see if one of the DVD formats of the future lives up to the hype. Read more

ADS DVD Xpress: Trash VHS Cassettes, Burn DVDs

Published on February 20, 2004 to Networking

Do you have dozens of old VHS tapes lying around in your closet that you want to get on DVD? ADS Technologies promises easy help with its DVD XPress, a compact DVD encoding solution that connects to a PC via a USB port and transfers analog video signals from VHS cassettes to your PC. Bundled software then guides you through the DVD burning process. Our tests reveal whether it is time to throw out your VHS cassettes and to begin burning your DVDs. Read more

HD-DVD Buyer's Guide

Published on February 21, 2007 to Home Theater

With the HD-DVD and Blue-ray Hi Def DVD formats duking it out in the background, we look at HD-DVD technology and 12 HD-DVD standalone and PC-based products. Blue-ray is next. Read more

IFA 2007: Two HD-DVD players from Toshiba for Under € 400

Published on September 1, 2007 to Home Theater

Toshiba is trying to give customers an incentive to buy a HD-video player despite the ongoing conflict between the competing HD-video formats Blu-ray and HD-DVD. Read more

IFA 2007: BD-UP5000: Samsung's Dual Format Player for Blu-ray and HD-DVD

Published on September 1, 2007 to Networking

At IFA 2007, Samsung introduced a Duo HD player that can handle both HD-formats. Read more

Are Do-It-All CD/DVD Packages Worth It?

Published on March 19, 2007 to Networking

Multi-function CD/DVD software packages record and play a dizzying array of media types and formats. Are they worth your time and money? Read more

How to Shop for the Best DVD Player

Published on November 17, 2005 to Networking

You usually get what you pay for, but this is certainly not true for DVD players. Instead of overpaying $500 for a player from a brand-name OEM, we strongly suggest that you check out the decoder and video processing components under the hood first before making a purchase. Read more

MPEG-4 With The New Flask 4.1: Almost DVD Quality

Published on October 22, 2001 to Networking

Using the new Flask 4.1/DivX 4.01 codec, the THG lab produced videos in MPEG-4 format. We found it to provide more speed, comfort and features. Read more

Two Big-Screen Multimedia Notebooks with HD-DVD Players

Published on January 2, 2007 to Home Theater

Earlier this year, we were wowed by a collection of five big-screen MCE notebook PCs. We return to this fertile field of technology, and find ourselves impressed by the quality and fidelity that HD-DVD players deliver, especially on big, capable HDTVs with HDMI inputs. Read more

Modix HD-3510: The USB hard drive box becomes a DVD player!

Published on January 6, 2005 to Networking

The HD-3510 USB box for hard disks can be used not only to save data, but to play back DVD, DivX and MP3 files directly on your TV set. Film audio tracks are played back by the SPDIF output as real 5.1 Dolby Digital or DTS signals. The drive box is also designed to play back HDTV in both 1080i or 720p formats. Read more

MPEG-4 - Copying a DVD Video to CD-ROM

Published on September 13, 2000 to Networking

It is a well-known fact that DVD/MPEG-2 video sequences take up a lot of disk space. This makes a distribution on CD-ROMs unsuitable. A small tool shows that there is a way to convert video data from MPEG-2 into the brand new MPEG-4 format. This saves a lot! You can even burn 110 minutes of full resolution footage onto a CD-R. Read more

DVD Quality Video on a Camera Phone?

Published on November 20, 2006 to Smartphones

Throw away that mega-buck video camera. If Mike Hodgkinson, Director of Rob Dickinson's "Oceans" music video is right, all you need to make it to MTV or VH1 is Nokia's N93 camera phone. See the video and the making-of video, as well as a slideshow featuring the N93. Read more

Widescreen Notebooks: More Than Just Expensive DVD Players?

Published on May 25, 2005 to Notebooks and Laptops

Notebooks with 15.4" widescreen displays aren't exclusively designed for watching DVDs. As the latest crop we tested from Acer, Dell and Gateway shows, wider screens can also afford notebooks with latent capabilities for office applications. But that doesn't mean that every OEM gets the screen technology exactly right, either. Read more

JVC Everio GZ-MC200: An Hour of DVD with No Cassette!

Published on January 13, 2005 to Digital Still Cameras

The Everio GZ-MC200 is the first camcorder capable of recording an hour of MPEG-2 video to a Microdrive. And this little technological marvel also takes 2 megapixel still photos! Read more