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  DVD & CD Player Software

Enhanced DVD Movie Watching: CyberLink PowerDVD 8  (5/2008)   **NEW**

Digital Holiday 2006: Home Entertainment Goes High-Def (12/2006)

InterVideo WinDVD 7: Beyond DVD to the Networked Home  (11/2005)

Enhancing Your DVD Movie Watching on the PC  (4/2005)
    (CyberLink PowerDVD 6, InterVideo WinDVD 6)

Gadgets as Gifts 2004:  Gizmos for Your Gadgets  (12/2004)
    (DVD Recorders, Snapshot Printers, Cell Cameras, Portable Players)

Windows DVD Players
    Watching DVD Your Way  (12/2003)
    (CyberLink PowerDVD, InterVideo WinDVD, 
    Windows Media Player 9)

Gadgets as Gifts 2002: Smaller, Smarter and Cheaper  (12/2002)
    (Phones, PDAs, Cameras)

Exploring DVDs with Software Players
    (InterVideo WinDVD, CyberLink PowerDVD - 11/2002)

Apple's DVD Answer (4/2002)
  DVD Playback & Recording Under Mac OS X
  (iDVD 2 - 4/2002)

PC Cinema: DVD Players on Your PC
    (InterVideo WinDVD, CyberLink PowerDVD - 6/2000)

DVD Meets the Web: Interactive Home Theater
    (InterActual PCFriendly, MGI SoftDVD Max - 7/2000)

  Desktop DVD Authoring

Summary: Roxio Easy Media Creator 10 (11/2007)
    Enhancements and Visual Tour

Summary: Nero 8 Ultra Edition (11/2007)
    Enhancements and Visual Tour

Summary: Adobe Premiere Elements 4  (11/2007)
   
Enhancements and Visual Tour

Summary: Sony Vegas Movie Studio+DVD 8  (10/2007)

Summary: Pinnacle Studio 11  (9/2007)

Adobe Creative Suite 3: Production Suite Summary  (4/2007)

Summary: Ulead DVD MovieFactory 6  (5/2007)

Delivering HD Discs: Roxio DVDit Pro HD  (4/2007)

Pinnacle Studio MovieBox Plus / Studio 10.5  (3/2007)

Basic Video Editing and DVD Authoring
  with Ulead VideoStudio 10  (1/2007)

Desktop Digital Media Trends 2007
    with Roxio Easy Media Creator 9  (1/2007)

Video and DVD Formats: Copying and Converting with InterVideo DVD Copy 5 Platinum (12/2006)

Next-Generation Consumer DVD Authoring:
    Ulead DVD MovieFactory 5 & Roxio MyDVD 8 (8/2006)

CustomFlix: DVD On Demand Meets Amazon.com (7/2006)

Using Adobe Encore DVD 2.0  (6/2006)

Re-Using DVDs -- Extracting video and audio  (3/2006)
    (Mirazon Cinematize 2 and InterVideo DVD Copy 4)

Adobe Production Studio: First Look  (2/2006)

Sonic DVDit 6 - DVD Authoring Software
    (DV Magazine, Dec. 2005 -- registration required)

Sonic DVDit Pro 6 + eDVD 4    (11/2005)

Getting to DVD with Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0  (11/2005)

Sonic eDVD 4: Web-Enabled DVD Tool
    (DV Magazine, Oct. 2005 -- registration required)

Roxio Easy Media Creator 7.5 Suite  (7/2005)

Building Interactive Games On DVD: ZOOtech DVD-Extra Studio
    (DV Magazine, 9/2005 -- registration required)

Ulead DVD MovieFactory 4 Disc Creator  (6/2005)

Sonic eDVD 3: Web-Enabled DVD Tool
    (DV Magazine, 1/2005 -- registration required)

Transferring Tapes to DVD with Sonic MyDVD 6 (12/2004)

HD on DVD: Putting Windows HD on a DVD
    (DV Magazine, 12/2004 -- registration required)

Customize your DVDs with Sonic DVDit 5 (11/2004) 
    Ulead DVD Workshop Express

Deconstructing DVDs: Re-Editing Your DVDs
    (DV Magazine, 11/2004 -- registration required)

DVD Copy Tools: Extracting and Merging DVDs (10/2004)
    Roxio Disc Copier, CyberLink PowerDVD Copy, Pinnacle InstantCopy
    InterVideo DVD Copy 2, Ahead Nero Recode 2

Accessible, Professional DVD:
    Ulead DVD Workshop 2 (7/2004)

Re-editing your DVDs 
    with Ulead DVD Movie Factory 3 (6/2004)

InterVideo DVD Copy 2 Platinum (CNET Reviews, 5/2004)

Roxio Easy Media Creator 7 (CNET Reviews, 3/ 2004)

Sonic MyDVD 5 Studio Deluxe (2/2004)

Adobe Encore DVD (CNET Reviews, 1/2004)

Adobe's Video Collection  (11/2003)
    (Premiere Pro, Audition, After Effects 6.0, Encore DVD)

Introducing Adobe Encore DVD  (9/2003)

Apple's Pro Digital Media Applications   (8/2003)
    (Final Cut Pro 4 & DVD Studio Pro 2)

Cracking the Disc: Re-Editing your DVDs (5/2003)
  (Ulead DVD Movie Factory 2)

Mass-Market Digital Video and DVD  (3/2003)
  (Microsoft Movie Maker 2, Sony Screenblast Movie Studio,
   Topics Instant DVD Maker)

Preserving Your Tapes on DVD (2/2003)
    Conversion Services, Set-top DVD Recorders, 
    Desktop DVD Authoring

DVD Authoring - 2002 Round-Up (1/2003)

Set-Top DVD Recorders (11/2002)

Upscale DVD: Sonic ReelDVD (9/2002)   

Apple DVD Studio Pro (7/2002)  

Video Editors with DVD Authoring (6/2002)
  (CyberLink PowerDirector & InterVideo WinProducer)

Video Editing Meets DVD Authoring  (3/2002)
  (Ulead VideoStudio 6 & DVD Movie Factory)

DV to DVD -- DVD Gets Easier
  (LaCie DVD Drive, Pioneer DVD Media
  MedioStream NeoDVD, Sonic MyDVD,
  InterVideo WinDVD - 12/2001)

DVD Update: Formats and Products  (10/2001)

DV to DVD -- End-to-End Digital Video
   (MedioStream CAMpeg RT
   CyberLink PowerVCR, Ligos LSX-MPEG - 7/2001)

Preserving Your Precious Videotapes
   (YesVideo, HomeMovie, 
   Creative Video Blaster MovieMaker - 4/2001)

Low-Cost DVD Authoring Tools: Make Your Own DVDs
    (Sonic Solutions DVDit! , VITEC DVD Toolbox- 8/2000)

  DVD & CD Formats

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Digital Copy: Movie "Downloads" from Blu-ray Disc  (6/2008)   **NEW**

Downloadable DVD: Recordable CSS (11/2006)
    Content Protection for the Rest of Us

The Promise of Next-Gen HD Discs  (9/2006)

High Hopes for High Def: Progress from Media-Tech  (8/2006)

Jim Taylor's DVD Demystified, Third Edition  (8/2006)

Content Protection for High-Def DVD  (4/2006)

High-Def DVD: Blu-ray and HD DVD  (4/2006)

Next-Gen Storage: Getting to Terabytes with Holographic Storage
    (InPhase and Optware, 10/2005)

Dual-Layer DVD and Beyond 
    (Sony DRX-800 Dual Layer DVD Burner, 9/2005)

Multi-Layer High-Def DVD Technology  (9/2005)

Content Protection for Consumer Electronics
    (DV Magazine, 8/2005 -- registration required)

Common DVD Mistakes and How To Avoid Them
        (Intellikey Labs & Synchronicity Mastering Services)
    (DV Magazine, 6/2005 -- registration required)

Hard Coat Protection for Recordable Discs  (6/2005)

Next Generation DVD Authoring -- High-Def DVD
    (DV Magazine, 2/2005 -- registration required)

HD on DVD -- Better Video, More Storage  (2/2005)
    (Blu-ray Disc, HD DVD, WMV HD)

DualDisc: Music on CD plus DVD  (1/2005)

HD-DVD: T2 and Beyond  (11/2003)

"DVD Rot" / DVD Longevity and Reliability  (9/2003)

DVD On Demand
    The Streaming DVD Experience (4/2003)

DVD Format Compatibility: But Will it Play?  (5/2002)

DVD-RAM For External Storage  (5/2001)

DVD Formats: Consumer DVD-R  (5/2001)

Here Comes DVD
    DVD for Video & Computers  (4/1999)

Burn Your Video To CD
    Saving and Sharing On CD-ROM (7/1999)