Despite the fact that a long time has passed since the Blu-ray format for movie distribution has been accepted as the mainstream, most of the consumers still don’t have the Blu-ray players or Blu-ray drives installed in their computers. For this reasons for majority of the consumers DVD is the ideal medium of choice for buying movies, music videos etc. In addition with the passage of the time storage mediums are getting more and more capacity while becoming cheaper at the same time. These days ...

Have you ever faced the situation where you had some valuable data stored on a CD/DVD and later you found that CD is physically damaged(for example scratches) and data cannot be copied back from it. It happened with me a couple of times in the past. But I discovered a useful utility that allowed to recover data from the my damaged CDs. In my case I was not able to completely recover all the data because of the excessive scratches on the CDs. I used the recovery utility Unstoppable Copier for recovery ...

Nero Burning ROM (a part of Nero application suite) is considered to be the de facto standard when it comes to CD/DVD burning, disk image creation and CD/DVD video disk creation. It supports a large amount of features including a CD/DVD compilation wizard that will guide the user through the whole process that may be suitable for the beginners. Despite it’s rich feature set this software is not for free. So if you are looking for viable freeware alternative then luckily you have some options ...

If you are a movie buff and spent time to watch a couple of DVD movies on the weekend in the comfort of your home on a PC, then you will really like a video utility called Chopper XP that allows to cut you favorite parts/scenes from a DVD movie or a video file. Many times we watch a movie and like some specific part of the movie (such as an action scene from the Face/Off or The Matrix)to keep in our collection rather than the whole movie which can be quite large ranging from 4 to 8 GB in size for ...