Black Friday DVD and Blu-ray Sale already started on J&R

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In case you did not hear, Black Friday did start early this year, very early. J&R just opened their Black Friday DVD and Blu-ray Sale, where you can shop your bargain movies now without time pressure and they will ship over Thanksgiving weekend.
Prices are low enough that you cannot expect them to go lower on the actual Black Friday day. Lots of DVDs are starting as low as $3.99 including classics like A Beautiful Mind or About a Boy. Read more

Posted on Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:36:47 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Aleratec DVD/CD Shredder Keeps Old Data Safe

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Aleratec announced the second generation of its CD/DVD Shredder. The device is described as a quick and easy way to destroy confidential, classified, business, and personal data that is stored on CD or DVDs. Once shredded the data on the discs can’t be read.

The Shredder has a powerful motor that allows it to cut CDs and DVDs into four strips. The steel cutters are totally enclosed for safety. The device has automatic start and stop that allows it to begin operating when a disk is inserted and stop when the disk is shredded. Pricing for the device is $44.99. Read more

Posted on Fri, 14 Nov 2008 06:28:18 CST | by Shane McGlaun

Wall-E is available for Pre-order on DVD and Blu-ray

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The cuttest robot in movie history is about to be released on DVD and Blu-ray. Amazon is so excited about the Wall-E DVD release that they issued a press-release.
Wall-E will be released on Nov. 18, 2008, and customers who pre-order and select "Two-day" or "One-day" shipping will have their order arrive on the date of release. Amazon Prime customers who select "Two-day" shipping will receive Release-Date Delivery for free. Read more

Posted on Tue, 11 Nov 2008 10:25:04 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Toshiba 19LV506 HDTV with internal DVD is I4U Top 100 Gift Tip #79

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The 19 inch Toshiba 19LV506 HDTV is the ideal dorm room or kids room HDTV because it has integrated DVD player.
This HDTV is small enough to fit in any room and easy to carry around as it just needs a power plug.
The DVD drive is loaded from the side and the Toshiba 19LV506 comes in white and in black.
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Posted on Wed, 5 Nov 2008 15:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Pink Sony DVP-FX820 portable DVD Player is I4U Top 100 Gift Tip #70

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This gadget gift tip in our Top 100 Tech Gift Guide 2008 is yet again for the wife, girlfriend or daughter. It is a stylish PINK Sony DVP-FX820 portable DVD Player.

This lightweight portable DVD player is perfect for watching movies on the go. This Sony gadget plays your CDs or MP3s, and views JPEG photos. Read more

Posted on Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

New Kohjinsha SX3KP06MS Atom Netbook features DVD Drive

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Kohjinsha unleashes a new netbook marvel with the Kohjinsha SX3KP06MS.
The Kohjinsha SX3KP06MS features the already known twisting screen design. Other feature highlights besides the integrated DVD drive include Intel Atom Z520 CPU, 8.9 inch WXGA screen, 1GB RAM, 60GB HDD, 0.35MP camera (front), 2MP camera (back), and media card reader.
The killer feature though, is that all of the above features fit into a 1.25kg light netbook measuring 225x185x22-33mm. Read more

Posted on Fri, 24 Oct 2008 07:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Dark Knight on DVD and Blu-ray Pre-order started

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For most people Dark Knight is the best Batman ever. Now Dark Knight is available for pre-order on Amazon.com.
Dark Knight comes as Two-Disc Special Edition DVD with Digital Copy for $22.99.
You can of course also get the Dark Knight Blu-ray disc with BD Live and Digital Copy for $24.95. Read more

Posted on Sun, 12 Oct 2008 11:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Verbatim LightScribe 8x DVD+R DL Media Now Available

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Verbatim has announced that it is the first to bring DVD+R DL LightScribe media to market. LightScribe media allows compatible DVD burners to burn a label directly onto the disk. 8x is currently the fastest DVD+R DL speed available.

The media has about twice as much storage capacity as a normal DVD with the ability to hold 8.5GB of data. The Verbatim media will be available in 10-disc spindles at unannounced pricing. LightScribe media tends to cost a bit more than normal DVDs, but they shouldn’t be particularly expensive. Read more

Posted on Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:39:12 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Samsung Adds Three new DVD Burners to Line

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Samsung has added a trio of new DVD burners to its line of optical drives. The units are all in the Super-WriteMaster SH-S223 line including one SATA drive and a pair of PATA drives. All share the same 22x DVD write speeds.

The drives are all internal and have 22x DVD +-R recording, 12x DVD-RAM recording, 16X DVD+R DL, 12X DVD-R DL, 8X DVD+RW, and 6x DVD-RW speeds. The drives all feature buffer under run protection and technology to reduce the noise the drives produce when in use. Read more

Posted on Wed, 8 Oct 2008 12:29:44 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

The Big Lebowski 10th Anniversary Limited Edition DVD comes in Bowling Ball

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The Big Lebowski movie starring Jeff Bridges and John Goodman is one of these cult movies I can watch over and over again. "The Dude" movie is now 10 years old and just got released as a 10th Anniversary Edition on DVD.
There is also a The Big Lebowski - 10th Anniversary Limited Edition that features the DVD set inside a Bowling ball. Read more

Posted on Thu, 11 Sep 2008 07:33:56 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Lite-on Slim External DVD Writer Announced

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Lite-On announced its latest external DVD solution today called the eSAU208. The fully featured 8x DVD burner is fully USB powered making it compact and stylish. The burner can be powered by one or two USB ports.

The device can burn DVD+-R discs at 8x and has a power save mode that lets users use lower power with speeds reduced 40-60%. The drive will come in two colors -- white or burgundy. Read more

Posted on Tue, 2 Sep 2008 11:30:55 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Toshiba XD-E500 DVD Player is I4U Top 100 Holiday Gift Tip #3

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We are starting easy on the Hometheater components holiday gift tips as we still expect several new announcements in the Blu-ray and video streaming categories. The new Toshiba XD-E500 upscaling DVD player is possibly the best affordable DVD player out there this fall.
Toshiba threw all their anger from loosing the HD disc war with HD-DVD into making the XD-500 DVD player. The new DVD player features Toshiba's XDE technology.
XDE takes according to Toshiba the DVD picture quality to a whole new level. In addition to providing upconversion from 480i/p up to 1080p, XDE offers user selectable picture enhancement modes that allow for greater detail, more vivid colors and stronger contrast that bring standard DVD quality closer to the HD experience. Read more

Posted on Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Toshiba XD-E500 DVD Player with XDE unveiled

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Toshiba as you know lost the HD DVD format war and had to bury their HD-DVD format and leave the field to Sony's Blu-ray.
Today Toshiba announced a new DVD player technology dubbed XDE. XDE takes according to Toshiba the DVD picture quality to a whole new level. In addition to providing upconversion from 480i/p up to 1080p, XDE offers user selectable picture enhancement modes that allow for greater detail, more vivid colors and stronger contrast that bring standard DVD quality closer to the HD experience.
This is a nice try by Toshiba to reduce the value of Blu-ray by improving the DVD picture quality. Read more

Posted on Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:29:14 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Netflix DVD Shipping back to Normal

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Netflix tested its subscribers this week with a collapse of their shipping centers. The movie rental by mail pioneer experienced 3 days of severe issues at their shipping centers.
On Friday the company announced to have resolved the issues and the shipping centers work normal again.
Customers will get a 15% credit to their next billing statement and new customers who are still in their trial period will get another week of free trial. Read more

Posted on Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:44:21 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Blockbuster and NCR to Launch DVD Vending Kiosks

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Blockbuster Video is intent on competing on all fronts when it comes to DVD rentals. When it perceived Netflix and its online model to be a threat, Blockbuster launched its own online rental service. Redbox kiosks are the next target for Blockbuster with a recent announcement that Blockbuster and NCR will be launching DVD vending kiosks.

The kiosks will be launched in small numbers in a pilot program before possibly being rolled out nationwide. Blockbuster says that 50 kiosks will be launched in Q3 2008. At first Blockbuster says that the kiosks will be used for rentals, but could be upgraded in the future for game sales, digital downloads and movie sales. The locations and markets for the first 50 units has not been announced at this time. Read more

Posted on Tue, 5 Aug 2008 11:13:11 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Space Chimps could soar on DVD

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By Kirk Honeycutt

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - "Space Chimps" is on a perilous mission into North American cinemas to compete against "WALL-E" and "Kung Fu Panda" for the family audience, not to mention vie for screens against such hot openers as "The Dark Knight" and "Mamma Mia!" You wouldn't wish such a fate on a dog.
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Posted on Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:42:09 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Verbatim Brings Color Backgrounds to LightScribe DVD Media

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When it comes to labeling discs like CDs and DVDs you can go a couple ways. You can get out a marker and write on the discs, which is rather messy and the labels may not stay. Or you can use a direct labeling media and DVD burner like LightScribe.

For a while you could get CD media for LightScribe that offered color backgrounds. Today LightScribe and Verbatim announced that DVD+R media is now available for LightScribe with color backgrounds. The media can be had with red, orange, green, yellow and blue backgrounds to add more creativity to the LightScribe labeling process. Read more

Posted on Tue, 8 Jul 2008 16:00:00 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

10,000 BC clubs the DVD Competition

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By Thomas K. Arnold

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The prehistoric epic "10,000 BC" scored a triple victory on the latest home video charts, topping the national DVD sales and rental charts as well as the Blu-ray Disc sales chart its first week in stores.
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Posted on Thu, 3 Jul 2008 13:02:13 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Batman and Flintstones coming out as pricey DVDs

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 By Thomas K. Arnold

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Elaborate DVD and Blu-ray Disc editions of "Batman Begins," "Casablanca" and "The Flintstones" top this year's slate of pricey gift sets from Warner Home Video, a category that experienced 26% growth in the past year, according to the studio.
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Posted on Thu, 3 Jul 2008 01:05:35 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Samsung Adds to TruDirect Portable DVD Writer Line

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Samsung has added to its TruDirect line with the addition of a new portable DVD writer that also provides DVD title creation. The new drive is called the TruDirect SE-T084M. the drive weighs less than one pound and works without a power cord.

The drive allows users to connect a digital video camera to the PC and press play on the camera. A TruDirect icon will pop up allowing the press of a record button and the TruDirect SE-T084M does the rest. Samsung says that the drive can create a DVD of 4.1GB in only 30 minutes. Supported formats include 8X DVD+R and DVD-R writing, 6X DVD+R and -R Dual Layer writing, and 5X DVD-RAM writing. The drive will be available in July 2008 for $149. The image here is via Krunker. Read more

Posted on Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:00:00 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Bucket List DVD tops Sales and Rental Charts

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By Thomas K. Arnold

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - "The Bucket List," a surprise box office hit starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman, kicked its way to the top of the latest DVD charts on Wednesday.
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Posted on Thu, 19 Jun 2008 02:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr