DVD

Optical drives have just about been phased out from modern laptops, allowing them to reach an ever thinner and lighter form factor. However, a PC user can still choose if they wish to give in to the storage and media revolutions of the decade.

DVDs represent the past that holds the cherished memories of my favorite videos and movies. I would want to hold on to these discs but, eventually, they’ll get damaged as all physical media storage do. To make sure that these memories don&#8217

Years after Netflix split its DVD plans from its streaming plans, a very big still problem persists: there is significantly less content available in Netflix’s streaming library than what is available for DVD rental customers.

If you love a movie or a TV Series, the best thing you can do is buy a digital copy and keep it with you forever.

Despite what naysayers might tell you, there is a lot to love about Windows 8 (and

Windows 8.1

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To name a few things: Windows is more secure out of the box than Windows 7, it boots faster and it provides a unique interface that can

My parents and friends (and neighbors) always line up some tech work like troubleshooting their computers , upgrading Android ROMs etc. when I visit them for holidays. But this time something unexpected was waiting for me – a pile of all the cla

Previous week I bought a new camera and no matter what I shot I just loved sharing it with everyone. I use Picasa Web Albums and Flickr to share my photos with my friends. Indeed these services are beyond doubt one of the best but still my not-so-tec

I am sure almost everyone has used an archive manager to pack files and folders together but today I would like to share with you a very nifty tool, Folder2Iso using which you can create an ISO from any kind of a folder, along with its subfolders.

Your friend wants to borrow one of your prized DVDs. You loathe to lend it to him because you have a hunch you might not get it back. The easy solution would be to copy or clone the original DVD and give him the copy.

Though, Windows 7 comes bundled with a built-in CD/DVD burner that can burn IMG and ISO files, it is pretty basic. One of the better alternatives to a tool like Nero is a free and unglamorous piece of software called CDBurnerXP. CDBurnerXP (ver.4.3.8)

A good friend of mine asked me a couple of days ago at the gym whether or not he could rip DVDs to his computer. (He also had an entire other scheme to go to the library and rip those DVDs to his computer, but that’s a whole other can o

If you’d like to create a backup of cds and DVDs so that you don’t have to insert the disc each time you want to watch your favorite movie, you need a DVD ripper software that can do that effectively. WinX DVD Ripper Platinum for Windows is a fea

UIF (Universal Image Format) is a format used to compress and backup CD or DVD data. It has many advantages over other compression formats such as RAR and ZIP, like ability to password-protect and encrypt data. It also supports backup of multi-sessio

Previously we told you about ISO files and how to extract, burn and mount them. Windows 7 provides an easy option to convert ISO files into disc. You don’t need any third party tool to perform this operation. To burn the file to disc perform the fo

ISO file, which is also known as a disc image, has .iso file extension. It contains a copy of the entire CD/DVD from which it was extracted.

Sometimes your CD or DVD drive doesn’t show up in the My Computer section. You can’t use your CD/DVD drive in spite of actually having it on your computer. Also, sometimes it may happen that it shows up but is unable to play the files in CD/DVD. S

If you have had any experience of ripping a commercial DVD to your PC then you would know it isn’t a straight-forward task of copying data from the DVD to PC.