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the ultimate in digi-tainment

The purpose here is to provide you with the knowledge and the tools to achieve the ultimate in digital entertainment. Almost anything you could need or want...anything. Only you hold the key to know what it will take to fulfill that desire for your entertainment tastes. With your likes and our menu of choices, a world of fascination is a click away.

To your right are our best sites for downloading movies, music and games. These sites have been tested, evaluated and pass our list of standards, which include: safe to use, legal to use, easy to use interface, no limits to bandwidth, unlimited downloads, quality of content, unlimited content to download, free software package, 24/7 unlimited access and tech support, instructions included.

These sites are fast. There's no waiting, watch a movie almost immediately as it is downloading. That's right, get it fast for your viewing or listening and gaming pleasure at the right moment for when the right mood strikes you.

So move on...... your Digital Experience awaits you!

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

It's official: Toshiba announces HD DVD surrender

David Katzmaier
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(Credit: Crave UK)
The two-year war between HD DVD and Blu-ray officially ended Tuesday morning as Toshiba waved the white flag and declared it would stop producing HD DVD products.
The company, which began sales of HD DVD in March 2006 with the HD-A1 player, "decided it was not right for us to keep going with such a small presence," said chief executive Atsutoshi Nishida. The Blu-ray format is now the definitive winner in the war and stands unopposed as the optical media replacement for DVD.
Toshiba's news release goes into a bit more detail: "Toshiba will begin to reduce shipments of HD DVD players and recorders to retail channels, aiming for cessation of these businesses by the end of March 2008. Toshiba also plans to end volume production of HD DVD disk drives for such applications as PCs and games in the same timeframe, yet will continue to make efforts to meet customer requirements. The company will continue to assess the position of notebook PCs with integrated HD DVD drives within the overall PC business relative to future market demand."
Three movie studios currently support HD DVD--Universal, Paramount, and DreamWorks Animation--but we expect them to follow suit and announce support of Blu-ray sooner rather than later.
With Blu-ray support announced by industry heavyweights Netflix, Wal-mart and Best Buy, speculation ran rampant before the weekend that Toshiba would end the war, and the company deserves credit for pulling out as soon as it did. The two incompatible formats have led to plenty of confusion among prospective buyers of next-generation hardware and software, although some have opined that the war was a good thing--at least it led to price drops.
We've been advising readers against the purchase of HD DVD players since the announcement by Warner Brothers in January that it would exclusively support Blu-ray. That doesn't mean we're telling everyone to rush out and buy a Blu-ray player now; we still believe that most home theater fans would be better served to wait for prices on players to fall. Of course, with the exit of Blu-ray's major competition, those prices may fall later rather than sooner.

Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Audio Technica Intros USB Turntable

By Geoff Duncan
Staff Writer, Digital Trends News Monday, February 4th 2008 @ 10:05 AM PST

Think vinyl's great but MP3s are more portable? Convert your LPs and singles to digital audio without intervening pre-amps and gear with Audio Technica's USB turntable.

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Audiophiles everywhere will tell you that old-fashioned vinyl offers greater fidelity than standard CD audio—but music fans everywhere will tell you that trying to carry a few hundred records while you're running around all day is a pain in the tuchus. With that in mind, Audio Technica had introduces its AT-LP2D-USB USB-enabled turntable for easy one-step conversion of 33 and 44 rpm vinyl records to digital formats.

"Many people still own their classic LPs and 45s, and a younger generation is discovering and collecting vinyl," said Audio-Technica Consumer Marketing Manager Crystal Griffith, in a release. "The AT-LP2D-USB offers users a simple, cost-effective solution for transferring records to digital files and portable players, and for listening to records on a home music system."

The AT-LP2D-USB features a USB output so the unit can be directly connected to a PC or notebook computer for capturing audio, and features a built-in switchable phono/line-level pre-amp for connecting to either phono-equipped systems or more modern line-level only systems. (Phono inputs adjust for the RIAA phono frequency curve—a standard developed long before the organization became mainly known for suing alleged file-sharers.) The turntable supports 33 1/3 and 45 rpm speeds, has a replaceable diamond stylus, and an old-school removable dust cover. The unit ships with Cakewalk Pyro software for Windows (which features a de-clicker and de-noiser for removing pops and hiss) and Audacity (Mac OS X) for recording music.

The AT-LP2D-USB should be available now for about $229.

What You Should Know about FREE Download Sites!

With all of the entertainment download sites out there that offer FREE movie downloads, music downloads, game downloads etc.,those tempting offers of free downloads you have to wonder, which is the best, but first and foremost one should use caution in choosing, since many of these Peer to Peer sites are free but also dangerous to the health of your computer.

Wondering Why? I'll explain below. So please read on!

Peer to Peer (P2P) Networks are basically computers on the same network with certain software sharing files for free. The problem with this, although tempting concept, is that you may also be sharing Malware, Viruses, Spyware that can damage your computer, not to mention you can get into some big trouble downloading copyrighted material.

If you do frequent p2p sites your anti-virus software should help in stopping any worms or viruses but you would still be risking your computer to infection and or damage if your settings on your are set too low. Also your file settings should be set to, "Do not share" to help keep out any bugs.

There are alternatives that are safe and legal. Membership sites offer this alternative, no worries for just a low one time fee. A good membership site also will not charge you a pay per download fee or even monthly fee just a one time fee with unlimited downloads. Yet there are many to choose from.

We have done some research for you and reviewed a number of sites that are a few of the best out there, but most of all Legal and Safe...no worries, spyware and adware free, just remember to follow the in structions I mentioned above on your settings. Just click on the link below and your there.

Tips: In your quest finding something that is right for you there are some considerations that come to mind. Download speed even from the best site is mostly dependent on your internet connection, Dialup vs. DSL vs. Highspeed Cable and on it goes. But with a good download accelerator software program most connections should work fine. Another tip would be your hard drive space, meaning the room needed to store all your favorite movies, music, and whatever else. That can be cured by burning copies onto the media of your choice CD, DVD, External HD and deleting the original off the drive or install a hard drive with more space.

Sincerely J.D.