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Amazon Stores = Most Suggested Merchants

Worldwide Locations Amazon.com (USA) Amazon.ca (Canada) Amazon.co.uk (UK) Amazon.at (Austria) Amazon.de (Germany) Amazon.fr (France) Amazon.es (Spain) Amazon.it (Italy) Amazon.co.jp (Japan)

Quick tip: You'll have a hard time finding anybody better than Amazon, when it comes to the best prices, quick shipping, and reliable service. The following is a shopping directory, sorted by topic. The stores, products, and software in bold are highly suggested, and are items we use regularly here at The Digital FAQ. Whether you're looking for a new computer, new HDTV or Blu-ray player, web hosting, video or DVD ripping software, etc, you won't go wrong by choosing these.

Digital Media / Digital Photography / Digital Video

Blank Discs/Cases Buy.com ca.Buy.com (Canada) cdrdvdrmedia CheckOutStore ClamCase Meritline.com Supermediastore

Photo/Video Cameras Adorama Abe's of Maine B&H Beach Camera BuyDig Calumet Photo J&R OneCall Samy's Camera Vann's

Photo/Video Software, Misc Academic Superstore ACDSee Adobe Adobe.co.uk (UK) Adobe.fr (France) Adobe.de (Germany) Adobe.se (Sweden) Any DVD Converter AnyDVD (Slysoft) AoAMedia.com Applian AVS4YOU Audials ConvertXtoDVD (VSO Software) Corel Cucusoft CyberLink CloneDVD (Elby) DVDFab (Fengtao) GoPhoto Hancock Fabrics Hulu Plus IsoBuster iuVCR (iuLabs) MainConcept (Rovi) Monoprice muvee My Memories Suite Neato Nero TMPGEnc (Pegasys) Pinnacle Roku Roxio.com Roxio.co.uk SonyCreativeSoftware.com Topaz Labs VCD Easy VideoBlocks.com Womble

Video/Computer Hardware BatteriesPlus Best Buy Circuit City Crucial Crucial UK Dell.ca (Canada) eBay.com eCost Geeks.com MacMall Mwave.com Newegg.ca Newegg.com Office Depot OfficeMax OnSale Overstock.com Tech For Less TheNerds.net TigerDirect TigerDirect Canada Toshiba Direct Walmart

Website Design, Hosting, Domains

Domain Names 123-reg GoDaddy Hostgator Namecheap

Web Hosting A-H 1&1 1&1 UK 100tb 123systems 3essentials A Small Orange AN Hosting Arvixe Atlantic.net Big Scoots Blue Host Burst.net BuyVM Cartika Hosting Cool Handle Crocweb Cyberhost Pro Dataflame Dot5 Downtown Host EasyCGI Easy Space Eleven2 eUKhost EuroVPS Evolucix Fasthosts FatCow Froghost Futurehosting GearHost GeekStorage GlowHost GoDaddy GreenGeeks Hawkhost Heart Internet Hostable HostaVPS HostDime Hostgator Hostmonster HostNexus Hostpapa HostRocket HostV

Web Hosting I-Z InMotion Interactive Online iPage IPOWER IX WebHosting JaguarPC JodoHost Just Host KickAssVPS Knownhost KoDDoS LiquidWeb LiquidWeb StormOnDemand Lunarpages MDDHosting Media Temple Midphase miniVPS MochaHost myhosting.com Namecheap NetDepot Netfirms Nethosting Ninja Hawk Ninja Lion Omnis Network PowWeb Register.com ServerIntellect ServerPronto Site5 SiteGround Softsys Hosting SolarVPS Speedy Sparrow StableHost StartLogic Stream101 Superb Internet UK2NET VMPort Web Hosting Pad Web.com Web.com (Windows) web-hosting.com WebHostingBuzz WebzPro WestHost WinHost WiredTree WireNine WP Engine

Web Design Themes, Tools AppThemes Constant Contact Elegant Themes FlashFXP Flexi Themes Gabfire Themes GetResponse HeliconTech Link-Assistant OmniTheme SEO Power Suite (Link-Assistant) SQLyog (Webyog) Shareasale.com StreamSend StudioPress Theme Forest vBSEO vBulletin VerticalResponse WS_FTP (Ipswitch)

Computer Software / Entertainment / Gadgets

Software -Antivirus, Utilities Autodesk Avira Bitdefender Diskeeper DiskInternals ESET F-Secure Kaspersky Lab Malwarebytes McAfee McAfee Paragon Raxco Symantec Symantec (Norton) Trend Micro Tweak7 (Totalidea)

Entertainment: DVD, Games, etc AllPosters.com Art.com Best Deal Magazines DiscountMags.com Entertainment Earth FansEdge.com iTunes Jerkass Clothing JJGames MagazineLine Mighty Ape myComicShop.com TFAW (Things From Another World) ThinkGeek USA Today Warner Brothers YesAsia

Chinese Knock-Off Gadgets AliExpress (Alibaba) Eforcity Focalprice

Ink, PrintingSoftware 123Inkjets 4inkjets! Inkgrabber InkjetSuperstore Linotype PsPrint RonyaSoft Vistaprint

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[Chilibean66]

I am new to this forum...and glad I found it. From the list above (software in particular) I assume the manufacturers listed are good and make quality products? I read forums all over the web about this and that company is spam,adware etc. etc. how does a hobbiest know which is good software? Who to trust? Most web sites (reviews) are affiliated with 1 or many companies. I even read where Lordsmurf shotdown TOPTENREVIEWS.
I for one am not wild about freeware software, it is either no longer supported or filled with crap that takes over your computer or is so complex a hobbiest like me can't figure it out. I don't mind paying for software from a reputable quality company.
The programs I have interest in are downloaders / video converters / rippers - burners / and media players.
Hope I have come to a place that can steer me in the right direction. Thanks for your time

[lordsmurf]

Some freeware is great, just as some payware (ESPECIALLY the $25-50 range) is crap. It really depends on the exact program. Several of the rippers above, for example, are excellent: AnyDVD or DVDFab -- these are sub-$100 payware. But for the best media player, you need look no further than the freeware VLC -- even the best payware can't touch it for feature and quality. I try to find the best tools, period, whether it's $0 or $500.

When in doubt, ask. We'll be glad to help find what you need.

And yes, we chose this stuff because it's good -- especially anything listed in bold.

[Chilibean66]

Thank you for the quick reply and I hope your feeling better these days. I would like to start out with a video converter to convert my youtube downloads (flv) to put on ipad or extract audio for mp3 or wave. I just would like some guidance on a few good companies that make quality products. I need to narrow that down instead of searching 100s of site that sell inferior software.

[lordsmurf]

I've always liked the software from any-video-converter.com

It has a spammy name, and an even more spammy domain, but don't let that fool you. Over the years, they've made some nice template-driven software for needs just like yours. I use it myself, when I just want videos converted in pretty good quality, and it's for myself (personal). It has templates for iPad, and for MP3, and it's exactly what you're after.

The only flaw I've found is it doesn't like some foreign characters in the name. For example, I have the Gangnam Style video by Psy, and it doesn't want to convert it as-is with the Korean characters. But that's it.

Get the "Any Video Converter Ultimate" for $45.