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Choosing the best projectors for movie, home entertainment and business: ITReviews.com Buyer’s Guide
If your thirst for visual entertainment has outgrown the size of – sensibly priced – monitors and TVs, the chances are good you need to start looking at a projector. Whether you need one for business meetings, gaming, or for watching the latest 3D or Full HD movies on Blu-ray or DVD, there are plenty…
Choosing the best optical drives – DVD, CD writers and Blu-ray: ITReviews.com Buyer’s Guide
While some of the latest ultra-portable laptops dispense with any optical drive, a device that can read – and in may case, write – to optical discs including CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-RW and Blu-ray is still a useful component, enabling users to rent the latest movie releases, as well as providing an easy way to install…
SkipDr For Xbox by Digital Innovations
You’re looking forward to finishing Rockstar’s L.A. Noire, you stick the disc into your Xbox 360, and… nothing. Scratched and dirty discs are the bane of gamers’ lives. Well, now there’s help at hand. SkipDr is a product whose job in life is to bring messed-up discs back to life. Works on other consoles, tooThe…
Choosing the best graphics card: ITReviews.com Buyer’s Guide
Buying a graphics card can be an important step in upgrading an old machine, or turning a bargain-basement purchase into a gaming powerhouse – but it’s a market that moves faster than any other, and yesterday’s dream product is today’s scrap metal. To avoid buying a card that’s not up to scratch – or investing…
The Complete LGV & PCV Theory and Hazard Perception Tests 2011 Edition by Focus Multimedia
Think learning to drive a car is difficult? Then imagine what it must be like swinging into action behind the wheel of something rather larger. Focus Multimedia’s Complete LGV & PCV Theory and Hazard Perception Tests (that’s Large Goods Vehicle and Passenger Carrying Vehicle, to you and me) pulls all of the official UK Driving…
Desktop Publishing 3rd Edition by Focus Multimedia
In these cash-strapped times, value for money becomes increasingly important. Like everyone else, PC users are looking to squeeze a little bit extra out of every purchase. Trouble is, many of the budget offerings are poor performers, out-of-date, and simply not worth even their low, low purchase price. It’s pleasing then, to report back on…
Roxio Video Lab HD
Just as the number of Hollywood films deploying 3D technology appears to have peaked, Roxio’s HD video editing package includes a feature that allows you to take your 2D home movies, and give them a three-dimensional makeover. It’s simple to do, too, and you get some 3D glasses in the box to enjoy the end…
Lite-On eNAU608 external DVD writer
Adding a DVD rewriter to a PC that doesn’t have one, whether it’s a netbook, laptop or older desktop, is no longer an expensive business. This little drive from Lite-On has an RRP of £51, but we were able to find it for around £30. It’s a small, glossy black device with a single mini-USB…
Avid Studio
Avid Studio is the new top-of-the-range in Avid’s consumer video editing suites. It trumps Pinnacle Studio HD Ultimate Collection 15, and includes just about everything the serious home user needs to produce professional-quality movies and slideshows. Although it shares some features with Pinnacle Studio 15, notably an impressive collection of bonus effects and add-ons –…
Plextor PX-L611U
Plextor has a solid reputation for CD/DVD writers, Blu-ray drives and portable HDD – but while much of the industry is loading the dice in favour of recordable Blu-ray, Plextor still sees a role for slim. lightweight external DVD writers like the PX-L611U. Measuring just 137mm square, a slender 22mm thick and weighing a featherlight…