Backstory:<BR><BR>I recently moved and in doing so I no longer can rent VHS videos from my old local rental place. Old movies were $2, new releases $3 and a section was arranged by director. The staff ...

I gotta get a cheap DVD player, and those have gone off my radar screen now that BluRay is here. I think there was a Phillips or maybe a Sony that was popular a while back? I need something that will ...

Mike Langberg takes a look at some of the hidden costs of those cut rate $40, $30, and $20 DVD players that can be found these days (we saw a million of them at CES): [Y]ou shouldn’t ask how it’s ...

It seems like ever week we're hearing new evidence of either HD DVD or Blu-ray pulling ahead in the format war. This week is no different. Apparently Wal-Mart has teamed up with a Chinese manufacturer ...

Recently, I had a tech issue related to my job too boring to relate here. The upshot, though, was that in the interest of efficiency (I was out of town; I left the equipment I needed at home; it would ...