SLIDESHOWS THAT PLAY ON YOUR TV

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…

UNLIMITED VIDEO STORAGE

When you share video clips on the web, you often get grainy images. Motionbox.com has a new service that handles high definition and makes even ordinary clips look like high-def…

CAPTURE ANYTHING

SnagIt is a Windows program that lets you capture anything you see on the computer screen, including video clips, even if they have been protected against copying…

VIDEO TAPE TO DIGITAL

– “Dazzle” is a relatively low-priced device for transferring VHS video tapes to CD or DVD. Once you have a video in digital form, you can burn it to disk or send it out over the web…

VIDEO THE EASY WAY

We finally broke down and bought the world’s best-selling video camera: the Flip. It costs $150 for the regular version, but we went wild and sprang for an extra $30 to get the “ultra” version, which has higher resolution and more memory…

QUICK TO DISK

We looked at Samsung’s new “TruDirect” external hard drive, a natural for people who like to quickly burn videos and movies to DVD…

MOTION PICTURES

MotionBox can turn a video into a flip book…