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Portable DVD screen question
The slave screen has broken. I was wondering whether another portable DVD would connect to our existing player to act as a slave screen or if we would need to buy an actual slave screen. Obviously we have all the cables to connect them together. The children aren't old enough to wear headphones and watch a separate DVD…
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camorder to computer help needed please
right back from trip, had a fab time. now to transfer video over to computer, so far have managed:* got my firewire cable into computer and camcorder. * windows auto start wizard for video * select camcorder * select copy all, or words to that effect * says it is rewinding tape...it is already reound * then says unknown…
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Got TomTom One will I need an extra card to fit speed cameras on and backup?
I have bought a tomtom one uk v3 as a present and wanted to know if I'll need to get a card to back up the main one like the older tomtom ones did? I haven't opened the box as its a present but will this hold all the extra speed camera stuff once its in use or will I need to get a bigger one to take all the poi's and speed…
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Loosing freeview whenever it rains
A few months ago we had some work done to the roof, during this work the aerial was moved, and since it was put back it has never been the same. Every time it rains all the channles disappear stating no signal, appart from bbc1, bbc2 and bbc3 which sometimes freeze. They told me to rescan the box, which I did but this made…
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Printing Headache!!
Why is my Epson Stylus Photo 810 printing everything red or pink! Checked nozzel and colour check and all is ok! What can I do to change it??
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DVD Players - making them multi-regional
Looking through Tesco's stock of cheap DVD players for connection to a TV, I find that a Philips says specifically that it will play only Region 2 DVDs, whereas all of their own-brand Teknika ones say nothing about regions on the box. The online writeups for all the Argos DVD players I looked up indicate that they are…
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Openoffice
Just seen the Microsoft Office 2007 promotion for full-time students and just reminded me that openoffice often messes up graphs and others bits and pieces in my assignments when i open them in Msoffice programs having saved in MSoffice format in Openoffice. Is there a way around this or another free office program that…
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ps3 wireless?
hey just got a ps3 how does one go about getting it online with a wireless router?? i have a netgearwgr614 connected to my pc with a wg111 wireless adaptor. will i be able to plug the usb adaptor in the ps3?? :confused: thanks:D
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what to do
just bought dsl wireless router 4 ethernet ports but internet is connected via virgin broabband modem by usb no usb ports on the router now what do i do
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Pink, green & blue ports on computer tower
As I know very little, maybe you could advise me please. The connection to my system is on the back of my tower. At the bottom are three ports, pink/Green & blue. Until recently a cable from my flat screen monitor carried sound from the green port. ( As I don't listen to anything, all I've ever heard is the…
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laptops and wireless broadband
please help i am not at all computer minded,switch on switch off thats about it !! lol my kids are on about a laptop for christmas,we have normal broadband with bt.they want a wireless one (thought they were all wireless ) what would i need to do with the bt broadband to get wireless,and can you run more than one pc,ie…
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Comodo Firewall Help
I changed to Comodo Firewall and recently there was an update to the Pro version but since installing I am having problems shutting down the computer. Is there a setting I need to change?
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Strange sound problem on PC
Hi, I can't seem to get any sound on my PC when using Media Player, Real Player, the internet (Youtube etc ) and even no sound on Startup or shutdown. BUT when I use PowerDVD player sound seems fine. Any help appreciated. Thanks
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Partition External Harddrive? Freeware?
Hi I was wondering if anyone could give me some advise on some freeware to partition my external harddrive. I know you can do it using DOS, but I'm a bit scared of it to be honest. I bought a 500gb freeagent this morning and fancy sorting out patitions for music, tv shows, films, documents etc to help against any…
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Backup to DVD
Hi, I have just been reading superscaper's sticky on backing up. My question is that I have a Dell Inspiron 2200 with a DVD writer. However, how do I know whether it needs a DVD+RW or DVD-RW, dual layer, or does it not matter. How can I tell what type of DVD writer I have? Thanks.
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how do I edit make movies from digital camera
Hi I bought a sony handycam DCR-DVD105 not knowing much about camcorders. They have the small disks which I thought would be handy to put into DVD player. However as they are only 30 minutes long I want to take parts from each and compile onto a few longer disks. I would like to experiment with editing adding a bi of music…
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cant open cash back sites
when i go through qquidco and go onto daily clicks such as high streetor shopping.commy browser is not allowing me to open these sitesplease help
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Spybot Alert message allow or deny?
Yesterday I removed Norton antivirus software (60 day trial version preloaded on new windows vista machine) immediately after completing the removal using the removal tool from the Norton website and restarting I got this message from spybot saying an important registry entry has been changed , category: system startup…
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V+ Connections
Hi, I am due to have a V+ box installed on Wednesday and have only just noticed that for the HD your HD TV should have a HDMI connection. Doh because Phillips are crazy when I bought my Philips HDTV 18 Months ago it came with a DVI connection. I have been able to get a HDMI to DVI adapter from Maplins (£20) but this is…
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Sky + recording problems...
Hi all. My Sky + records fine on most of the channels I use however on movie channels and virgin, plus a few others it goes weird. The image occasionally goes bitty, like it skips a little and become pixilated (sp?). The main problem though is the sound, its really hard to describe but it goes 'tinny' and the words dont…
