If you get a new Windows 8 computer, you might be surprised to find out that it won't play your DVDs as Microsoft, in its infinite wisdom, omitted this feature in the new version of the OS. Although ...

Take advantage of the Apple computer at your office to play DVDs that contain technical manuals, applicant resumes or software tutorials. When you insert a DVD into the computer's DVD drive, the ...

A reader writes with a question about playing DVDs in Windows 10. "My new Windows 10 laptop (Toshiba Satellite C55-B5382) came equipped with PowerDVD 12 rather than any of the old familiar movie ...

Physical media, including vinyls, cassettes, and CDs are all the rage right now. If you're looking to dust off your collection of DVDs and put them to use in your Windows PC, getting them playing is ...

The Sony Handycam series of camcorders enables entrepreneurs with little or no videography experience to create high-quality promotional or training videos and play them on standard TVs using cables ...

Is it possible to view DVDs, played by a normal DVD player, on a computer monitor by connecting it directly? The computer monitor has both the D-sub and BNC-style connectors. Will the computer monitor ...

I sometimes wonder how many people who use DVD recorders realize that the disks they record need to be finalized. The recorded disks won't play on a normal DVD player or on a computer unless the DVD ...

Q: A friend of ours photographed and videoed our wedding ceremony several weeks ago and gave us a DVD with JPG and MOV files on it. The JPEG images are fine, but we can't play the MOV videos, and for ...

Life just got easier for users of the downloadable or boxed retail versions of the Ubuntu Linux 8.04 operating system who want easy and cheap ways of adding DVD playback and improved audio ...