Category: Video Hardware

DVD and MP3

A new generation of standalone DVD players is hitting the market with intriguing new features, such as the ability to play compilations of MP3 audio songs on CD-recordable discs. These standalone DVD players allowing the production of audio discs with more than 10 hours of music on them. In this article, we'll take a look at some of the models on...

Creating DVDs

Introduction There are many reasons why DVD authoring is growing rapidly in popularity. Standalone "set top" DVD players are exploding in popularity, thanks to declining prices and an abundance of movies available in this high-quality format. And DVD recorders, too, are dropping in price, to the point where they are not much more than a...

DVD Creation tools: A comparison of features

See part 1 of this article for a more detailed look at the process of creating a DVD and the tools described in the chart below. Chart 1: DVD Authoring Software Feature Comparison   DVD MovieFactory iDVD iDVD2 iDVD3/iDVD4 MyDVD Pinnacle Express Capture Analog Video yes no no no   no Capture Digital Video yes no no no yes yes...

Review: Ulead's DVD Workshop

Windows-based DVD Authoring tool provides motion menus, interactive features As I noted in part 2 of my article on DVD authoring tools, Apple's iDVD2 was the first consumer-friendly DVD authoring tool to provide advanced features such as "motion menus," background soundtracks and animated buttons. Now, all this functionality and a lot...

Review: 321Studios' DVDxcopy

toc_collapse=0; Table of contents  This DVD copying tool for Windows 2000/XP really works Here's how it works: For further reading: This DVD copying tool for Windows 2000/XP really works 321Studios has released a program that makes it trivially easy to back up the DVDs you own. The backups you make can then be burned onto DVD...