How to create .ISO from .VHD file
The way in this guide can only be done from Windows 7! And you need to have WAIK installed.
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17.6.2009 How can I install Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 to a virtual hard disk (VHD) file?
Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 add the ability for an OS to be installed onto a virtual hard disk (VHD) file to boot physical hardware. To do this, perform the following steps.
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17.2.2009 DVD Jon hacks Media Player file encryption
Norway's best known IT export, DVD Jon, has hacked encryption coding in Microsoft's Windows Media Player, opening up content broadcast for the multimedia player to alternative devices on multiple platforms.
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Microsoft Commerce Server 2009 - Release Candidate - DVD ISO Image File
Commerce Server 2009 (formerly known as Commerce Server 2007 code name “Mojave”) delivers the ability to increase your business reach by making it possible to sell via multiple channels using an out-of-the-box shopping site, SharePoint Commerce Services, and the Multi-Channel Commerce Foundation.
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16.1.2009 Recover Files from Damaged or Corrupted CD,DVD,HD DVD,Blu-Ray Disks
CD/DVD are optical storage media easily gets corrupted or damaged. CD & DVD discs have low durability and single scratch on CD/DVD will permanently damage your data.
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4.9.2009 Create Windows Live Messenger Buttons !
Create a handy button for your Windows Live Messenger contact so your friends can easily add you to their contact list.
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21.10.2007 How to: Create custom wallpaper collections in Windows 7
Do you love customizing your Windows desktop? If you do, you'll love this trick!
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28.7.2009 Windows 7 Will Consume Less Disk Space than Vista
Microsoft promises to optimize the amount of disk space that Windows 7 will consume in comparison to Windows Vista.
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20.11.2008 Windows 7 to let users create a Desktop Slideshow from files, feeds
Curious as to what else was under Microsoft’s elaborate lock, key, and duct-tape protection scheme mentioned earlier, I had my friend Chris Holmes run a scan of his 7 system, as I’m still babying my laptop’s SSD drive.
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10.11.2008 How to install Windows 7 on a virtual hard disk - VHD
If You want to test Windows 7, without impacting your current installation of Windows XP or Vista on your desktop? A possible solution is: Boot from VHD.
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19.6.2009 Now Create Robots with Microsoft
Following the launch of the Windows Live Messenger Beta, Microsoft has announced the start of its new contest, "Invasion of Robots Contest".
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30.5.2006 Microsoft didn't create Zune
The person who actually created the “Zune” name is getting no credit at all. Zune is on everyone's lips these days, be it in a context of criticism or...
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22.11.2006 Macrium Reflect FREE Edition - How To Create Full Windows Backup
An award winning disk imaging solution for free. With Macrium Reflect FREE Edition you can create a disk image without rebooting.
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17.6.2008 Insert disk....
Windows Live Onecare beta ate my hard disk
A BRIT who downloaded Microsoft's Windows Live OneCare beta is claiming it ate his hard disk. The beta expired and he couldn't buy a licence.
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4.12.2006 How To: Reduce Disk Space Used By Windows Vista System Restore
So you just bought a new notebook with Windows Vista and a roomy 120GB hard drive. But after using it for just a couple of days, you notice that you’ve only got about 90GB free.
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24.4.2007 Free Create-Burn ISO 2.0
Free Create-Burn ISO is a professional data CD / DVD burning tool. With this software you can burn CD-R, CD-RW, DVD+R/RW, DVD-R/RW discs directly, or you can quickly create ISO image file from your computer, and burn ISO image file to your CD / DVD disc.
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3.8.2007 How to archive on disk drives
Archiving on hard drives? Now that disk drives are cheaper per gigabyte than tape cartridges, you might be tempted to archive data on disk drives and stick them on a shelf.
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10.9.2008 Study: Vista to Create Jobs, Revenue
A Microsoft-sponsored study says that Windows Vista will generate some $70 billion in revenue and create up to 100,000 jobs in the first year of its release.
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12.12.2006 Vista SP1: Create a recovery disc
One of the new administrative tools Windows Vista Service Pack 1 provides is the ability to create a recovery disc. Thanks to pacpis for this news.
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1.10.2007 Auslogics Disk Defrag 1.1.4.217
Auslogics Disk Defrag is a compact, manual defragmentation tool that supports FAT 16, FAT 32, and NTFS (with compressed and encrypted files).
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13.5.2007 Hard disk test 'surprises' Google
The impact of heavy use and high temperatures on hard disk drive failure may be overstated, says a report by three Google engineers.
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19.2.2007 Hitachi Ships 1TB Hard Disk Drive
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) has started to ship its 1TB hard disk drives (HDDs) introduced early this year commercially. But the hard drive that represents a milestone in desktop data storage costs a little less than two times higher compared to slightly less capacious one, which makes it not very affordable.
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6.4.2007 Improved Disk Defragmenter in Windows 7 with Status Report and Free Space & Parallel Concurrent Defrag Support
Windows operating system comes with a built-in basic Disk Defragmenter, that can perform disk defragmentation process properly, which is performed to increase read and write access speed by rearranging files stored on a disk to occupy contiguous storage locations, minimizing disk read travel time and maximizing transfer rate.
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2.8.2009 Restore and Reset File Association in Windows Vista
Windows Vista allows user to change and set default program association for most kind of file extension type via Control Panel’s “Set Associations” or “Set Default Programs” under “Default Programs” link.
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21.6.2008 Adapt the Windows 7 Hibernation File to the Memory Contents Loaded
Microsoft informed that in certain scenarios, Windows 7 computers going into hibernation could present a stop error to the end user.
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8.9.2009 Digital File Check
Music fans who want be safe and legal on the internet are today offered a new freely-available software programme that will help them stop their computer being used for illegal file-swapping of copyrighted music and movies.
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Vista-Windows Mobile 6.0 file-sync fix due in mid-June
Even though Windows Vista has been out since January (or November, if you’re a business customer), there are still products and applications - including some from Microsoft itself - that don’t work with Vista.
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29.5.2007 Free file hosting service
Host your files with the fastest growing web-hosting service in the world at slashdot.co.za!
No need to register for hosting your files. Our services are fast, easy, reliable and completely free.
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Service Offers File Sharing Over Gmail
P2P users have found a creative way to fill up the more than 2 gigabytes of e-mail storage offered by Google's Gmail: file sharing. A new service created by Dutch student Robbie Groenewoudt taps into Gmail and creates an index of files that can be accessed by other users.
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27.11.2005How To Create a Bootable DVD for Windows Vista (or any Windows for that matter)
If it's been a while since you've needed a boot disk for your Windows machine, you may just be struggling with how exactly to do it. It's not like
the old Windows 98 boot floppy where I could just go into Windows Explorer and make one with a couple of quick clicks of the mouse. However, you need
not worry, since the current process is surprisingly well documented by Microsoft.
What may seem, at first, to be a complex task
is actually fairly simple. There are essentially seven steps to create a bootable DVD or bootable UFD (USB Flash Drive), all of which are command line
based. While the seven steps are relatively straightforward, the Microsoft article outlining those steps has a slightly obscure title: "
Walkthrough:
Create a Custom Windows PE Image." Anyway, this Walkthrough, for all intents and purposes, is a step-by-step how-to for creating a bootable DVD
disk.
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11.12.2007Windows Vista available on Volume Licensing
Thanks Tom Warren and
Bink for
this information that was
relayed to me yesterday
(shortly before my power
outage), but better late than
never! We can reveal that
Windows Vista is available for
Volume License users, shortly
ahead of the scheduled Nov.
17th release to MSDN
subscribers.
The
following flavours were
released:
- Windows Vista
Business 32-bit English Disk
Kit MVL DVD
English
- Windows Vista
Business 32-bit English Disk
Kit MVL DVD
UPG
- Windows Vista
Business 64-bit English Disk
Kit MVL DVD English
- SA Win Vista
Enterprise 32-bit English Disk
Kit MVL DVD English
- SA Win Vista
Enterprise 32-bit English Disk
Kit MVL DVD UPG
English
- SA Win Vista
Enterprise 32-bit English Disk
Kit MVL MVLS Only DVD Language
Packs
- SA Win Vista
Enterprise 64-bit English Disk
Kit MVL DVD English
- SA Win Vista
Enterprise 64-bit English Disk
Kit MVL MVLS Only DVD Language
Packs
The site
appears to be non-responsive,
it's probably being
hammered!
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16.11.2006Microsoft Vista Undelete
Sparks More Facts
The Inquirer's recent
examination of the
'undelete' technology in
Windows Vista has become more
important since Apple formally
announced 'Time Machine' in
Leopard, the next iteration of
OSX.
Unfortunately Apple's Time
Machine requires a separate
disk, dedicated to the
backing-up of data on your
primary drive. Useful in the
case of a hard-disk failure,
but not exactly the cheapest
option. It also seems to have
an esoteric GUI, which may or
may not work well in real-word
usage.
Windows
Vista's alternative backup
application is very similar,
albeit without the
over-the-top interface, and
also comes with a Shadow Copy
feature that's integrated
into the normal file/folder
menus, and has some
interesting attributes of its
own.
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this article
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17.08.2006Toshiba to join the Blu-ray Disk Association
Toshiba has announced that it will be joining the BDA (Blu-ray Disk Association) which is the final chapter to the format war of HD-DVD vs Blu-ray.
Toshiba who was the largest heavy-hitter backing the HD-DVD format was in a fierce battle against Blu-ray which was largely impart developed by Sony.
When Sony bundled a Blu-ray drive in its PS3 console it gave the format its entrance into millions of homes for which HD-DVD was unable to compete
against. "In light of recent growth in digital devices supporting the Blu-ray format, combined with market demand from consumers and retailers
alike, Toshiba has decided to join the BDA.
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10.08.2009First DVD to Ship with WMV File for PC, Portables
While the fourth "Die Hard" DVD may seem like an unlikely place to set a historical milestone in the movie industry, Yippee Kay-yay. 20th
Century Fox said Tuesday that a special edition version of "Live Free or Die Hard" will include a Windows Media Video file that can be copied
to a PC or portable video player...
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16.10.2007Proposed Amendment Would Ban All DVD Copying
A proposed amendment to the
current copy protection
license governing DVDs would
completely ban all DVD
backups, and prevent DVD
playback without the DVD disk
being present inside the
drive.
The proposed
amendment was made public in a
letter sent by Michael
Malcolm, the chief executive
of Kaleidescape, a DVD jukebox
company which successfully
defeated a suit by the DVD
Copy Control Association (DVD
CCA) this past March. The
proposed amendment is
scheduled for a vote on
Wednesday, according to
Malcolm.
A spokesman
for the CCA said he was not
aware of the proposed
amendment, but added that he
could not comment until the
CCA had finished its
deliberations. A spokeswoman
for Kaleidescape said she
understood that a final
decision could take weeks, if
not months...
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22.06.2007Research Firm Predicts New Copyright Protection Technologies for Blu-Ray, HD DVD
After it became clear that the widely-discussed Advanced Access Content System (AACS) copyright protection technology is not a panacea against copying
and ripping high-definition videos from Blu-ray and HD DVD discs, the studios did not react. However, this does not mean that no new copyright
protection technologies are in the works.
ABI Research market research company in its recent study predicts implementation of a
new security technology to restrict end-users content management abilities. For example, makers of DVD players and Blu-ray/HD DVD publishers can alter
necessary security keys, which will require to update firmware of a player to allow playback of new content.
śDesigners of AACS
contemplated such a problem and made it possible to revoke a compromised player. The revocation feature is a significant new capability of the HD DVD
content protection system, as players can be revoked by changing the disk key on new DVD releases. This key, when combined with a targeted player key,
will fail to create a key that can descramble the disk contents. And in order for the new disks to work, the player needs to be updated to a new
version,ť said ABI Research principal analyst Steve Wilson.
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27.09.2007How long does it take to create a 16TB file?
Although
the theoretical maximum file size on NTFS is 2
64−1 clusters,
the current implementation of the NTFS driver supports files
up
to "only" 16TB minus 64KB.
(In other words, the disk format supports files up to
2
64−1 clusters,
but the
current drivers won't go above 16TB−64KB.)
Back in 2002,
in order to verify that the drivers did indeed support files
as big as their design maximum,
the NTFS test team sat down,
created a volume slightly bigger than 16TB,
and then created a file of
the maximum supported size,
filling it with a known pattern.
After the file was successfully created,
they then ran another program that
read the entire file back into
memory and verified that the contents were correct.
(They ran other tests, too, of course, but those are the
ones that
are important to this story.)
How long did it take to create this nearly-16TB file?
Around
three days.
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04.12.2007Weird Windows Vista File/Folder Manipulation "Bug"
I think this could be considered as one of the weirder but non-critical "bugs" in both Vista RTM and Vista SP1. Thanks to Plax for the find:
1. Create a folder somewhere and put a file inside
2. Then open an Open file dialog from some application
3. Go
in the folder with the file and cut the file then rename the folder and paste the file somewhere else
4. Then you'll find out that instead
of the file a folder appeared
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12.02.2008Engineering Windows 7 : Disk Space
Windows disk space consumption has trended larger over time. While not desirable, the degree to which it's been allowed is due in large part to
ever-increasing hard drive capacity, combined with a customer need and engineering focus that focused heavily on recover ability, data protection,
increasing breadth of device support, and demand for innovative new features. However, the proliferation of Solid State Drives (SSDs) has challenged
this trend, and is pushing Windows 7 to consider disk "footprint" in a much more thoughtful way and take that into account for Windows 7.
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21.11.20087 Whole-Disk Encryption Apps Put A Lock On Data
Few IT professionals need to be lectured about data security. All too frequently we hear of the theft or loss of a computer or hard drive with data
stored in the clear -- without encryption.
Fortunately, on-the-fly data encryption is no longer some exotic, costly beast.
Rather than just encrypting single files, some applications are able to create virtual disks, either within a file or directly on a partition, where
everything written to the disk is automatically encrypted. On modern hardware, the overhead for encryption is minimal; you no longer need dedicated
hardware to make this happen.
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31.03.2008IsoBuster 2.0
IsoBuster is an award winning,
highly specialized and easy to
use CD, DVD and blue ray (BD,
HD DVD) data recovery tool. It
supports all CD / DVD / BD /
HD DVD formats and all common
file-systems...Rescue lost
files from a bad or trashed CD
or DVD disc, save important
documents, precious pictures,
video from the family, your
only system backup, ...
IsoBuster can do it all !
IsoBuster 2.0
changelog:
- BD (Blu Ray) and HD DVD
support.
- UDF 2.6.
- Implemented the ability
to use other system installed
code pages, such as MAC,
SYMBOL, UTF8 etc., for
ISO9660.
- Properties
for drives show, next to CD
and DVD, also BD and HD DVD
Read and Write
capabilities.
-
Installation and IsoBuster.exe
are now code signed to make
Windows (more or less)
happy.
- Implemented
ASynchronous Drag and Drop
(file extraction) on VISTA
systems to avoid the VISTA
over-write dialogue to become
stuck under the IsoBuster
window, which looks like a
hang, but it isn't.
-
VISTA style directory icons
when ran on a VISTA system.
- Start with font Tahoma on
XP or Segoe UI on VISTA.
- Smaller changes here and
there.
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23.12.2006DVD Streaming Coming To Media Center
Soon,
Media Center users will be able to stream
DVDs from their PC to a Media Center Extender. This means that you can pick up an Extender that doesnt have a DVD drive, hook it up to any TV in
the house, and not have to hook up anything else to get TV, DVD, music, and other Media Center applications. Previously, only Sonys super-expensive
XL1B 200-disk DVD changer could do it, but now anyone should be able to just pop a DVD in the PC, and watch it anywhere in the house. Huzzah!
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11.01.2008First Pirated HD DVD Movie Hits BitTorrent
Pirates decided that the copy
protection scheme for HD DVD
was worth a shot. The result?
The movie is entitled Serenity
and was made available as a
.EVO file which is playable on
most DVD playback software
packages. The file was encoded
in MPEG-4 VC-1 resulting in
19.6 GB worth of hard disk
space. The first
full-resolution rip of an HD
DVD movie on BitTorrent. Who
knows, maybe this is yet
another factor in the HD
war.
An
announcement less than a month
ago by an anonymous programmer
known as Muslix64 specified
that the copy protection on HD
DVD had been bypassed. The
open-source program to
implement this was called
BackupHDDVD. The software
cleverly avoids (for how
long?) legal justice by
placing the responsibility of
cracking on the user, not the
software. To extract an
unencrypted copy of the HD DVD
source material the user has
to fetch that disc's volume
or title key.
CyberLink, the makers of
PowerDVD playback software,
have already assured everyone
that their software is not
responsible for extracting the
title keys from the media.
Content providers, on the
other hand, have declared that
they reserve the right to
invalidate known pirated keys
in the future. Of course, they
will have to figure out which
application gets the volume
keys (Cyberlink has not yet
been cleared). Future titles
could potentially require, as
soon as a disc is inserted,
that the user upgrade their
software in order to play
discs.
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16.01.2007EU expands informal DVD antitrust investigation
The European Commission has
expanded an informal probe
into whether the licensing
strategies of two rival groups
of DVD developers are
anti-competitive by seeking
information from film studios,
the EU executive said.
Developers of the
high-definition optical disk
standards HD DVD and Blu-ray
are battling for a share in
the lucrative audiovisual
market providing they can
convince consumers of a need
to upgrade from their current
DVD system.
HD DVD
was created by Toshiba Corp.,
while Blu-ray was developed by
a Sony-led consortium
including Philips, Samsung and
Sharp Corp.
The
Commission, the 27-country
EU's top antitrust regulator,
asked film studios last month
to send information by July 6
on how they decided on the two
formats or whether they
released films on one standard
and not another...
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03.07.2007Home media server runs embedded Vista
Crestron has announced a digital media server that runs an embedded version of Windows Vista. The ADMS (Adagio Digital Music System) includes a DVD or
Blu-ray disk drive, up to 1TB of RAID hard disk storage, Internet Explorer, plus HDMI, S/PDIF, and component outputs, says Crestron.
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19.09.2008Windows 7 to add slideshow wallpapers and more!
Don't worry Windows 95 Plus! enthusiasts, Microsoft hasn't forgotten about you and your themes. A recently updated MSDN Library document shows that
Microsoft hasn't just brushed themes under the carpet, but instead dusted it off, added some new polish and is even putting it under the spotlight.
The document "
Creating and Installing Theme
Files" (now edited) has been updated with several "additions to the .theme file format were made for Windows 7". They include: (Click Read
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10.08.2008Inside Vista SP1 File Copy Improvements
Mark Russinovich: Windows Vista SP1 includes a number of enhancements over the original Vista release in the areas of application compatibility,
device support, power management, security and reliability. You can see a detailed list of the changes in the Notable Changes in Windows Vista Service
Pack 1 whitepaper that you can download
here. One
of the improvements highlighted in the document is the increased performance of file copying for multiple scenarios, including local copies on the
same disk, copying files from remote non-Windows Vista systems, and copying files between SP1 systems. How were these gains achieved? The answer is a
complex one and lies in the changes to the file copy engine between Windows XP and Vista and further changes in SP1. Everyone copies files, so I
thought it would be worth taking a break from the śCase of¦ť posts and dive deep into the evolution of the copy engine to show how SP1 improves its
performance.
Copying a file seems like a relatively straightforward operation: open the source file, create the destination, and
then read from the source and write to the destination. In reality, however, the performance of copying files is measured along the dimensions of
accurate progress indication, CPU usage, memory usage, and throughput. In general, optimizing one area causes degradation in others. Further, there is
semantic information not available to copy engines that could help them make better tradeoffs. For example, if they knew that you werent planning on
accessing the target of the copy operation they could avoid caching the files data in memory, but if it knew that the file was going to be immediately
consumed by another application, or in the case of a file server, client systems sharing the files, it would aggressively cache the data on the
destination system.
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05.02.2008Three-Layer 51 GB HD DVD Apparently Approved by DVD Forum
News is only now leaking out that the three-layer, single sided format for HD DVD engineered by Toshiba was given the green light by the DVD Forum,
official backer of HD DVD, on August 31...
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11.09.2007Intel Wants Unified Hi-Def DVD
Format
In a press conference
following a speech at the
Ceatec Japan 2005 conference,
Intel Digital Home vice
president Donald MacDonald
said Intel planned to push the
industry to create a unified
standard for high-definition
DVDs that would join Sony's
Blu-ray and Toshiba's HD DVD
camps...
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