DVD

Wirewize Explains How to Connect Your Entertainment Gear [Web Utilities]

Free A/V website Wirewize takes most of the guesswork out of hooking together your television, DVD player, stereo speakers, and other gear. After a free sign-up, enter in the model and make of each...

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AcetoneISO 2.0 Makes Disk Mounting Simple [Featured Linux Download]

Linux only: AcetoneISO2, a free, open-source application for Linux systems, gives you complete control over your disk images and CD/DVD mounting without having to touch the command line once. The...

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Live File System Turns Blank Discs Into Pseudo-Flash Drives [Windows Vista Tip]

The Online Tech Tips blog delves into a little-discussed feature of Windows Vista that can turn your spare blank discs into drag-and-drop bins for extra files. The Live File System mounts writable...

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Rip DVDs for an iPhone in Linux [How To]

The Tombuntu blog points out that the latest Hardy Heron release of Ubuntu Linux doesn't play nice with multi-platform video/DVD converter HandBrake—at least not the version with a nice...

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Digitize Your VHS Home Movies [Weekend Project]

When it's time to finally clear out that dusty trunk full of home movies on VHS tapes, you have a couple of options: pay someone to transfer all that precious video to DVD, or do it yourself. For...

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Turn Your PC into a DVD Ripping Monster [Feature]

Commercial DVDs are far too expensive to let scratches turn your video into a glorified coaster, but most people still don't back up their DVD collection. Once upon a time, the four to eight gigabyte...

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DVD Rip Automates One-Click DVD Ripping [Exclusive Lifehacker Download]

Windows only: Rip and back up any DVD to your hard drive with DVD Rip, a freeware Windows application that automates the entire DVD-to-hard-drive backup process. All you need to do is insert your...

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Enable DVD Playback in Ubuntu in Two Commands [Linux 101]

Most guides and tutorials for Ubuntu newcomers can help you get commercial DVDs playing on your system, but only through a series of terminal commands that install new repositories or through the use...

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K3B - The Easy Way to Burn CDs and DVDs

K3B is an application that ships in the default KDE packages in most distributions, however it’s a very useful tool that can often be overlooked. K3B is a CD and DVD burning application that makes it easy to burn data, audio and disc images onto writable CDs and DVDs. It is a very mature, stable and fully featured application.