Making a New Gift Out of Old Memories

Miles Weston

Got a limited amount of money to spend this holiday season but a list as long as your arm? There are gifts you can give everyone will want. And they will cost you little more than time! Scan your analog photos and put them on your hard drive. Then save your VHS tapes (you need to anyway) to the HD and make personalized gifts that people will want to enjoy right away and for years to come. Read More >>

Create DVD Menus for Your Presentations

How to create DVD menus for your presentations

Burning PowerPoint to DVD is a good solution of preserving PowerPoint presentations and preventing them from being edited by others. Also, by burning PowerPoint to DVD is ideal for viewing PowerPoint presentations through various media. But have you ever thought that you can create DVD menus for your presentations to be viewed on TV with a DVD remote control just like a movie?

WiKi Tip:

How to Put Photos on a DVD for Storage and Share

Put Photos on a DVD for Storage and Share

Photography today is primarily digital, and many digital photographers always face tons of digital photos on their computer, often confused how to deposit and share them more easily. As a shutterbug, I prefer to put photos on DVDs for storage and sharing.

Product Review:

Dymo DiscPainter

Inexpensive solution for printing on CD/DVDs

Dymo DiscPainter is a departure from other CD/DVD disc printing solutions in that the DiscPainter specializes on CD/DVD media. It is dedicated to printing on CD/DVD media and case templates and nothing else. With that said, it makes a lot of sense to have such a dedicated device especially if you are adept at offering more than just a CD or DVD with Sharpie writing on it, telling you what is on the disc.

Video-Based Tutorial:

Encore DVD 2.0 Essential Training: The Interface

Host Chad Perkins also discusses transcoding essentials

In this video, host Chad Perkins discusses the basics of the Encore 2.0 interface, covering such things as Encore's panels, buttons, menu items and so forth. He covers the new docked palettes, now called panels. He shows how to resize panels, create a custom workspace, and other neat tricks.

Buyers Guide:

Blu ray Buyer's Guide

HD DVD is dead. Its time to buy a Blu-ray player

With the massive support and exclusivity of major studios, manufacturers, and stores (both brick-and-mortar, and online), Blu-ray is the clear choice for high definition DVD. With capacities averaging 25GB and 50GB, and bigger discs on the way, plus full 1080p playback, Blu-ray belongs in your home entertainment center, or even in your computer.

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