Home Theater and Entertainment Technology

Blu-ray to iRiver Ripper Soft4file is a free utility that disables a DVD’s Content Scramble System (CSS) copy protection technology. Once a DVD’s copy protection is disabled, you can copy its content using one of several third-party programs. You may be using Soft4file and not realize it, because it often is the engine of other [...]

True Grit (Special Collector’s Edition) TRUE GRIT SPECIAL COLLECTOR’S EDITION – DVD MovieA wonderful/rueful running gag in El Dorado involves the Edgar Allan Poe line “Ride, boldly ride” being mangled by toupee-wearer Wayne into “Ride, baldy, ride.” Two years later, in True Grit, Wayne put the joke in italics by donning an eyepatch and several [...]

Wizard of Oz [Blu-ray] WIZARD OF OZ 70TH ANNIV BLU-RAY/ACADEMY (BLU-RAY DISC) Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 01/04/2011 Run time: 164 minutes Rating: GWhen it was released during Hollywood’s golden year of 1939, The Wizard of Oz didn’t start out as the perennial classic it has since become. The film did respectable business, but [...]

This Property Is Condemned Inspired by Tennessee Williams’ play. Brought to life by Hollywood’s biggest stars. He’s the wrong man to love. How could it all seem so right? Robert Redford and Natalie Wood headline this sexually charged Depression-era drama. Redford (whose next film, Barefoot In The Park), would rocket him to stardom) plays Owen [...]

He Walked By Night Based on true events, this film noir classic is a “thrilling, absorbing story, superbly told, well-acted [and] brilliantly photographed” (The Hollywood Reporter). Starring Richard Basehart, Scott Brady and Jack Webb, this “tense, exciting” (Variety) thriller was the inspiration not only for the TV series “Dragnet” but for many other subsequent “ripped [...]