Posted on September 28th, 2008 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
You’ve made a photo slideshow on a disk, but will that disk play on your TV? If you have Vista, you can use the free Windows “DVD Maker” to do the trick. If you don’t, you need a program like Roxio’s “MyDVD Video Lab,” to make your video playable on a TV…
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Posted on September 4th, 2008 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
You can still watch the Olympics and pick up coverage of events you missed, or just see replays. We turned to several events we missed - the kayak, scull and canoe races, using the Windows Media Center. The Media Center comes with all Vista operating systems but it was also packaged with many other computers that came out before Vista. You can get Olympic re-run coverage from NBCOlymics.com and some other sites, like Sports.Yahoo.com. We tried these sites, but they weren’t as good as what we got from a free service called TVTonic.
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Posted on June 20th, 2008 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
Joy has been trying out a number of set-top boxes that promise to bring the computer to your TV, and even bring TV to the TV…
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Posted on April 16th, 2008 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
Adobe has just introduced a free player for watching TV shows available on the web. Go to Adobe.com/go/mp to download the software…
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