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Is older tech more reliable than new?

2021-11-232021-12-05 — Posted inAudio and Video — 4 min read

  Yet another DVD player of ours craped out in less than four months! This one, we bought from Amazon, so thankfully they’re giving me a refund. But it just […]

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Review of the MegaDisc Optical Disc Storage Trunk

2021-11-192021-12-30 — Posted inAudio and Video, Product Reviews — 4 min read

  I’ve finally found a solution to the terrible packaging you typically find with DVD “boxed sets” of your favorite T.V. shows.

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More great content wrapped in crap packaging

2021-03-092021-10-21 — Posted inAudio and Video — 4 min read

This past Valentine’s Day, my wife and I exchanged gifts, both of them being DVD collections of two T.V. series that we enjoy. I got a classic favourite T.V. show […]

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I didn’t realize snap case DVDs were a “thing”

2020-10-192021-10-21 — Posted inAudio and Video — 3 min read

We have a fair size collection of DVDs, but until just recently, I had no idea of the hoop-la that surrounded those DVDs sold in the cardboard “snap case” packaging.  […]

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New DVD purchases that were worth the money

2020-08-222021-10-21 — Posted inAudio and Video — 4 min read

Recently I happened across the Canadian media production company, VEI (Visual Entertainment Inc.) and noticed that they had the distribution rights to several old T.V. show from the 80s, which […]

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Cheap is just the new “normal”

2020-08-022021-10-21 — Posted inAudio and Video — 3 min read

This evening, my wife and I sat down to watch a couple of movies that we haven’t seen for a while. First, we watched “A Knight’s Tale”, which is one […]

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My DVD burning rig: Asus EeeBox

2020-03-052021-10-21 — Posted inComputing — 3 min read

I just thought I’d take a moment and share with you the rig I use to process and encode my video collection. At the moment, I’m using this setup to […]

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Archive your movies with 2ManDVD

2020-01-152021-10-21 — Posted inComputing — 5 min read

In my second entry on my blog, I shared my feelings on the importance of making physical copies of the digital photos you cherish most.  This post is similar in […]

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Most people call it "retro", but for me it's just the way of life. I still enjoy my photos on film, my movies on VHS and LaserDisc, my music on compact cassettes and vinyl LPs, and computing and gaming on my Commodore 64. Why fix it if it ain't broke?

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