I have a PC hooked up to my receiver through an optical cable. The sound card has Dolby Digital Live encoding, which I find useful for listening to music. However, the DDL encoding isn't quite ...

Back in August of last year, I wrote a column about the Toshiba Qosmio laptop PC that lets you watch TV on its screen using its integrated tuner but without having to boot up the Windows operating ...

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 ...

(1) Software that plays DVD discs. See media player. (2) A stand-alone unit that plays DVDs. DVD players and "DVD drives" are both input devices; however, the "player" is a DVD source for a TV or home ...