DVD Players & Recorders

After the initial DVD release in 1997 the market quickly took over and expanded. According to the Washington Post, DVD sales surpassed VHS sales in 2003 and still sell millions of copies today....

DVD Shrink is a software package for copying DVDs on a computer running a Windows platform, then burning the digital copy onto a recordable DVD (DVD-R). The software enables users to copy all...

In 2008, the war between Blu-ray and HD DVD seemed to come to an end with the discontinuation of the HD DVD product line. Since that time, there has been a huge push to get movies out on Blu-ray...

The dual layer DVD features a much higher data storage capacity than its close cousin, the single layer DVD. Since its inception in 2003, it has not been through many big changes, but it never...

We've all been there. You're watching your favorite movie on DVD and, without warning, it locks up in a pixelated mess of glitching and blippy sound. When you take the disc from the player to...

A lot of things are stored on discs today, from music and movies to video games and data files. Discs can perform well for years, but sometimes the inevitable scratch or two can't be avoided. When...

DVDs are virtually indestructible and designed to last for decades. The only real dangers to your discs are heat, cracking and scratching. These risks are easily avoided if you follow a few...

Blu-ray players are the next generation of home entertainment, with a sharper HD picture and the ability to incorporate more interactive features than previously possible with standard DVDs and...

Rewritable (RW) media products are widely used by professional and amateur artists, photographers, filmmakers and musicians to store and share media files. However, despite their common usage,...

A DVD, or Digital Versatile/Video Disc, is a type of medium used to save movies, data and presentations. DVDs are as popular as compact discs, and are easily burned on a personal computer or a...

The evolution of DVD discs has produced various types of DVD media as manufactures find more efficient ways to store data to the disc.

Blu-ray discs can display high-definition movies with audiophile-quality audio. Due to the way they are made, you cannot play one of them in a regular DVD player. But the reverse is not...

Technically speaking, a DVD-R is a DVD, it just has certain features that a regular DVD doesn't have. The "R" in DVD-R stands for "recordable". This feature gives DVD-R discs more versatility than...

Until 2008 the future of high definition DVDs looked like it was heading down the same road that VHS and Beta took decades before--right into a long-running format war. Both HD DVD and Blu Ray...

Blu-Ray DVDs have become the new standard for high definition home video. But that does not mean all Blu-Ray DVDs are created equal. There are several things you can look for to ensure you...

DVDs have increasingly become the go-to format not only for movies on home video but also for storing and transferring large amounts of data, audio and video files from a computer. The ability to...

Most commercially available DVDs come with region coding programmed onto them. This ensures that you can only play the disc in the region of the world where you purchased it. Other discs, however,...

DVD players have replaced VCR for home media content and as millions of people upgrade to high-definition televisions, they also are upgrading DVD players to a new format. Blu-ray won the format...

DVDs made optical discs the preferred format for viewing movies at home and now the next generation of DVDs has hit store shelves. The Blu-Ray DVD, also referred to as Blue Ray, BluRay, or...

A Blu-ray DVD writer is a device that uses a laser to record data on optical Blu-ray discs. It is similar to a CD writer or DVD writer but can also write to the high-capacity Blu-ray format....

First it was VHS, then it was DVD, and now it's Blu-Ray. It seems like every few years a new format comes along and complicates the home-video market. You can play Blu-Ray discs in not only...

With the abundance of DVD authoring hardware and software available for the personal computer today, it has never been easier to back up DVD movies or create custom DVD content for distribution to...

The newest generation of home media is the Blu-ray player. After beating out the HD-DVD in the format wars, the Blu-ray format has evolved and become the highest quality and most advanced DVD...

As green movements gain momentum, many of people are looking to reuse products rather than just dumping them in the trash. Reducing resource usage and reusing old items not only leads to a cleaner...

Although standard DVDs produce a nice, clear, digital image when played back on a high-definition TV, they aren't producing the best picture possible. To have a truly high-definition experience,...

DVD content--including programs, movies, and video games--used to be typically burnt to a DVD using an ISO format. Now, the format has been upgraded and changed and referred to as UDF. UDF discs...

A Blu-Ray disc is a disc-based storage unit engineered to be the next logical step over the current DVD storage format. Each disc can hold 50 GB of data, which is almost ten times higher than the...

Blu-Ray discs are an optical disc format that have more storage capacity than DVDs. This allows Blu-ray discs to store high definition videos. A Blu-Ray-compatible player is required to play...

Blu-ray is a type of DVD that features increased storage and can therefore accommodate high-definition picture quality as well as sound quality not possible on traditional DVDs.

Everyone has been there, you send a lot of money on CDs, DVDs or Games, only to have them get scratched a month later, rendering them nearly useless. Instead of continuing to get all of your discs...

DVD is the current go-to format for home entertainment systems, having supplanted the old VHS tapes over the past decade. Blu-Ray is a more sophisticated type of technology, and it is expected to...

Consumers are being presented with the victor of the most recent format war: the Blu-ray player. There are many reasons to be hesitant about buying one, but as prices decline, it will become more...

Both HD-DVD and Blu-ray are DVD formats designed to provide high definition video output on dedicated players. (The formats can also be used for data storage.) With the rise of the HDTV, DVD...

DVD cleaning discs are small discs that look similar to regular DVDs except that they actually clean the player as they run. These are available from most mass merchandise stores as well as...

The Blu-ray disc format is a high-density optical storage medium with a similar size and shape to conventional DVDs and CDs. The Blu-ray format provides unprecedented storage capacity in optical...

The creation of a DVD is no longer in the hands of big business. Today, most computers come pre-equipped with hardware and software that will allow anyone to create a DVD. While most DVDs are...

To understand region-free DVD players, we have to understand regions and region codes. Many DVD players are region-locked, or specific to only one region. A region code is used to restrict other...

The Panasonic company has a range of players for the new Blu-ray discs and hosts an information page about Blu-ray, which the company calls the "next generation" in home entertainment. Blu-ray...

Learn how to file discs in the folder of the Sony DVP-CX875P CD/DVD Player by following these simple steps.

Learn how to repeat discs played with the Sony DVP-CX995V CD/DVD Player by following these simple steps.

Learn how to play discs with the Sony DVP-CX995V CD/DVD Player by following these simple steps.

Learn how to play discs with the Sony DVP-CX875P CD/DVD Player by following these simple steps.

Learn how to play discs with the Sony DVP-NC875V CD/DVD player by following these steps.

With the Sony DVP-CX985V CD/DVD Player, you can play your discs in random order through the Shuffle Play feature. Here are the steps to do it.

The Sony DVP-CX985V CD/DVD Player plays DVDs, different types of audio CDs and data CDs. Here's how to play discs on your player.

The Sony DVPNS50P CD/DVD Player has a Parental Control function available to lock discs you don't want your children watching. This function lets you set a password that must be entered before...

The Sony DVP-C670D CD/DVD Player has a built-in option that keeps your selected song or movie playing while you change discs, so you won't have to stop the music or the movie to change the other...

When you want to rearrange the order of play for one disc or play items from numerous discs, you have the option of using Program Play. Here's how to use this function on the Sony DVP-CX777ES...

When you want to play one or more discs in random order, use the Shuffle Play program. Read on to learn how to use Shuffle Play with the Sony DVP-CX777ES CD/DVD player.

You can do a lot more than just play CDs, DVDs and view pictures using your Sony DVP-NS41P CD/DVD Player. You can set the player to lock out certain discs from playback so your kids can not access...