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April 2006
Linda Simon |
Maintaining & Restoring your DVDs & CDs Do you aspire to improve tracking, protect your digital library, and make your sound and picture quality better? DVDs & CDs, as we all know, are not indestructible, but by following these tips you can keep your discs healthy and help restore them when they aren't.   |
Popular Mechanics
February 2007
Joel Johnson |
How to Fix a Jammed Slot-Loading CD Drive: Digital Clinic If you get a CD stuck in your mac notebook's slot-loading drive, don't stick objects in the slot. Try these tricks instead |
PC Magazine
May 18, 2004
Carol A. Mangis |
Norazza Digital Cleaning Kit The Norazza Digital Cleaning Kit is an inexpensive package that provides everything you need to keep your digital camera spotless (and avoid repairs and read errors caused by dust, crumbs, and so on). |
Home Toys
June 2004 |
Data Longevity on CD, DVD Media There is a lot of cheap CDR and DVDR media that has marginal quality. For some applications like games, quality isn't critical. For irreplaceable, vital data like family photos, special events, vacations and family/friends memories quality does matter. |
PC World
June 18, 2002
Kuriko Miyake |
Philips Shrinks CD to 1.2 Inches Blue laser technology supports tiny drive for use in phones, PDAs. |
PC World
February 20, 2002
Kuriko Miyake |
Terabyte Optical Disc in Development Optware refines holographic technology so disc can store more than 100 DVDs... |
PC World
November 3, 2007
Lincoln Spector |
Diagnose and Repair an Unbootable XP or Vista PC What to do when your Windows XP or Windows Vista system refuses to boot. |
PC Magazine
October 1, 2004
M. David Stone |
Primera Signature Z1 CD/DVD Printer Here is an optical disc printer that almost anyone will find useful. |
Home Theater
May 5, 2009 |
GE Disc Stores Half a Terabyte General Electric has developed an optical disc format using microholographic technology that stores 500 gigabytes, or about 100 times the capacity of a DVD, and 10 times the capacity of a Blu-ray dual-layer disc. |
PC Magazine
February 15, 2006
Don Labriola |
Better Ways to Label Your Discs Stop using adhesive labels. There are safer techniques for making great-looking CDs and DVDs. |
Home Theater
December 7, 2005
Darryl Wilkinson |
Discs That go Bump in the Light Scratch-Less Disc Industries has announced that their Scratch-Less optical discs are now available at various retail outlets throughout the country and online at major Internet retailers. |
PC World
October 3, 2002
Martyn Williams |
Philips Shows Off Coin-Size Optical Discs Miniature discs can hold 1GB of data, and could replace memory cards in future electronic devices. |
Home Theater
December 10, 2009
Mark Fleischmann |
Amazon Lets You Have It Both Ways Disc+ On Demand combines disc purchase with streaming. |
PC World
July 2003
Eric Butterfield |
Print Photos and CDs With Epson's 900 Specially coated discs accept the printer's ink. |
PC World
November 2002
Melissa J. Perenson |
Shattered: This CD's in Tatters? High-speed drives increase the chances that a defective CD will explode. |
T.H.E. Journal
November 1999 |
Networking - JVC's new MC-7000 Series of DVD-RAM libraries JVC's new MC-7000 Series of DVD-RAM libraries, or storage disc "jukeboxes," consist of three models having 260GB (100 discs), 520GB (200 discs) and 1.6TB (600 discs) of data storage capacity.... |
PC World
June 2004
Jon Jacobi |
Burn DVDs by the Dozen Handy small-office disc duplicator by Primera Technology skimps on the software. |
Home Theater
November 18, 2009
Mark Fleischmann |
BD Managed Copy Slowly Emerging The standard is in all discs, but compatible players have yet to follow. |
PC Magazine
May 18, 2004
Neil J. Rubenking |
Eject a Stuck CD Advice on manually ejecting a stuck CD. |
American Family Physician
May 15, 2003 |
When You Have a Herniated Disc What is a herniated disc?... Why does a disc get herniated?... What are the signs of a herniated disc?... How does my doctor know I have a herniated disc?... What can be done for the pain of a herniated disc?... Will exercises help the pain?... etc. |
PC Magazine
March 24, 2011
Eric Griffith |
How to Spring Clean Your PC This spring, don't just clean the dust-bunnies and crud out from under the furniture. Dive deep into your PC, even the Windows operating system, to get everything working its best for the new season. |
PC World
November 20, 2006
Melissa J. Perenson |
Blu-ray Burner Boasts Solid Software Bundle The Plextor PX-B900A optical drive performs well and comes with a top-notch set of burning programs, but it carries a daunting price tag. |
Macworld
October 2003
Robert Capps |
Bravo Disc Publisher Disc production speeds along with personal DVD/CD duplicator and printer |
PC Magazine
March 2, 2005 |
Bits & Bites v24n5 The Holographic Versatile Disc (HVD) Alliance plans for optical discs that store a terabyte of data... Browster takes the pain out of sifting through search results... |
Home Theater
November 22, 2004
Darryl Wilkinson |
Green with Envy Over New Blu-Ray Triple Disc Recorder Sharp's three-in-one HD recorder is the first to combine Blu-ray Disc and DVD recorders with a hard disc drive. |
Home Theater
June 26, 2002 |
Panasonic 3rd Generation DVD Recorder The new machine accommodates 12 hours of digitally recorded picture and sound on a double-sided DVD-RAM disc, and up to 6 hours on a single-sided DVD-RAM or DVD-R disc, thanks to Panasonic's "hybrid variable bit rate" technology. |
Chemistry World
February 25, 2011
Elinor Richards |
Diagnosing diseases with CDs A digital compact disc integrated with a microfluidic device to analyse cells has been developed by scientists in the US. The disc can be inserted into a standard computer disc drive for analysis and could be used to diagnose diseases. |
PC World
March 2004
Melissa J. Perenson |
Optical Drives: Simplified DVD Labeling HP's invention, due in drives soon, lets users burn labels. It uses the same laser that already burned the data to make a label on the flip side of the disc. |
PC World
March 2004
Lincoln Spector |
Why Is My Speedy PC S-l-o-w-i-n-g D-o-w-n? Follow these tips to restore performance... Plus: Handle backups too big for CDs... read attachments in Outlook Express 6... dispose of old CDs safely... |
PC Magazine
March 31, 2004
Jamie M. Bsales |
Robo Copier The Bravo II Disc Publisher enables hands-free, automated production of up to 25 CDs or DVDs per batch. |
PC Magazine
October 5, 2006
Cisco Cheng |
Primera Bravo SE Disc Publisher For full CD/DVD duplication, including burning and label-making, the Primera Bravo SE Publisher has the job well under control. |
Popular Mechanics
May 2007
John Decker |
How to Repair Your Car Scratch: Saturday Mechanic This new step-by-step DIY guide walks you through diagnosing and repairing the dreaded car scratch. |
PC World
November 22, 2006
Jon L. Jacobi |
DVD Burning Tips: How to Avoid the Top Five Disc-Burning Mistakes A few precautions can help ensure that the CDs and DVDs you burn will play successfully. |
PC Magazine
January 12, 2005
Bill Howard |
Clean Your PC Before resorting to cleanser, rags, or compressed air, learn the dos and don'ts of PC cleaning. |
PC World
December 2001
Lincoln Spector |
Answer Line: Rescue Files Trapped on a CD-RW Gone Bad Rescue files from a bad CD-R disc... print folders to a network printer... change your default Explorer folder... |
PC World
January 4, 2007
Melissa J. Perenson |
Philips BDP9000 The BDP9000's sleek design and friendly menus make it a good choice if you're in the market for a Blu-ray disc player. |
InternetNews
May 13, 2005
Tim Gray |
Toshiba's Triple HD-DVD Play No one is ready to yield in the HD-DVD storage battle. |
PC World
September 25, 2007
Kirk Steers |
How to Recover Almost Anything Even when you think it's gone, a file or folder that you consigned to oblivion may not be irretrievably lost. Here's how to retrieve files from your hard drive and cell phone. |
Home Theater
April 13, 2006
Darryl Wilkinson |
Blu-ray Recordable Discs at a Store Near You TDK has started shipping cartridgeless 25GB recordable and rewritable Blu-ray Disc discs to retailers and is thus claiming bragging rights as the first company to bring blank BD media to the market. |
PC World
September 2001
Lincoln Spector |
Answer Line Keep data safe on CD-R discs... paste text into Word minus the formatting... control which programs run at start-up in Windows 95 and 2000.... |
PC Magazine
June 1, 2005
Troy Dreier |
Apple Mac mini Accessories The Mac mini is inexpensive, but if you have to add a keyboard, monitor, mouse, and speakers, the cost rises: Plasticsmith Mini Tower... SkinIt.com Mac Mini Skin... Tom Bihn eM2... etc. |
PC Magazine
June 26, 2007
Dan Costa |
No One's Really Winning the Format War Once this format war is over, the industry will come to a sad realization: Most people will never buy high-definition movies on disc. |
Home Toys
August 2004 |
Understanding Double Layer DVD Recording While consumers around the world have enjoyed burning their own DVDs for a few years now, the inevitable question of "what's next" is now upon the industry. But double layer DVD technology is not new. |
The Motley Fool
June 13, 2005
Dan Bloom |
You Think Blu-ray Is Exciting? Holographic data storage, which is being pursued by a small private company called InPhase Technologies, promises to crush Blu-ray in storage capacity. |
PC World
April 2004
Jon L. Jacobi |
Fast-Lane DVD Burning With quicker drives and more-potent software, the time is right to take the rewritable DVD plunge. We test a dozen drives and seven suites for massive data backups, plus high-quality video and audio. |
PC Magazine
May 4, 2005
Troy Dreier |
Get Some Input Contour Design RollerMouse PRO... Logitech MX518 Gaming-Grade Optical Mouse... Microsoft Wireless IntelliMouse Explorer with Fingerprint Reader... Belkin MediaPilot... etc. |
Home Theater
December 31, 2005
Darryl Wilkinson |
A Blu-ray Computer Pioneer Pioneer says they'll begin shipping one of the industry's first Blu-ray disc computer drives during the first quarter of 2006. |
PC World
July 18, 2002
Michael Gowan |
How to Burn Without Getting Singed Burning a CD is easy. Just follow these steps to create a backup disc or copy an entire CD. |
PC World
September 18, 2002
Kirk Steers |
Top Tips for PC Hygiene PCs, like furniture, collect dust and grime -- but unlike a chair or desk, your computer can malfunction if not cleaned periodically. Here's how. |
PC World
April 2005
Jon L. Jacobi |
HP's LightScribe Etches DVD Labels DVD burner's included technology lets you add your own disc labels. |
