Change and Speed Up the Read and Write Speed for DVD Writers - MediaCodeSpeedEdit
Before continue reading today’s article, I’d like to warn you that this is for advanced users and if you don’t know what you’re doing, you CAN damage your DVD drive and will void your warranty.
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8.8.2008 Microsoft shows off HD DVD drive for Xbox
Microsoft on Monday offered the first glimpse of an external HD DVD drive built for the Xbox 360 game console.
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8.8.2006 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 Full Speed v2.7
USB And CD Protection all in one give you the comlete conrol on your pc and important data to protect from steeling or illegal copys of your importan data and also USB protection protect your system and data too form unothorized useing.
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8.6.2007 Need For Speed ProStreet Preview
Electronic Arts made the big announcement just months ago and Need For Speed ProStreet is already shaping up into one of the best, if not THE best racing game ever developed.
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25.10.2007 New Need For Speed Game is ready
The latest EA investors meeting was a great opportunity for the company's boss, John Riccitiello to unveil a host of new and exciting projects.
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18.6.2008 Need for Speed Shift Screenshots
Eight Need For Speed: Shift Screenshots Know much about Need for Speed: Shift? Neither do we! EA's released eight new screenshots from the game that we can gaze longingly at, though.
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5.3.2009 Need For Speed ProStreet Demo Out. Download Here!
Well what do you know, if it isn't the Need for Speed ProStreet Demo that you can download and play right now on your PC.
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4.11.2007 Best Need for Speed Underground 2 videos and download demo
Discover the living, breathing world of tuner culture in Need for Speed? Underground 2, the sequel to the best-selling racing game of 2003, and the latest blockbuster installment in the legendary Need for Speed franchise.
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Siemens Breaks Network Speed Record
German electronics company Siemens said Wednesday that it had set a new network speed record, achieving a speed of 107 gigabits -- the equivalent of roughly two DVDs worth of data -- per second, two and a half times faster than the previous record.
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21.12.2006 Vista SP1 Gives Extenders a Speed Boost
Word is that Vista SP1 is giving Linksys Extenders a bit of a speed boost, especially in the transition and animation field.
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25.3.2008 How to Speed up Taskbar Thumbnail Preview in Windows 7
Windows 7 has much better aero transparency glass effect along with taskbar thumbnail preview. Taskbar Thumbnail Preview displays small thumbnail preview of opened window on your taskbar when you hover your mouse on taskbar icons. Many users have started loving taskbar thumbnail preview of windows 7.
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9.2.2009 Speed Test: Windows 7 May Not Be Much Faster Than Vista
Though Windows 7 edged out Vista in our lab tests, you may not notice much of a difference.
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7.5.2009 Samsung develops new graphics memory speed limit
Samsung is getting ready to produce extremely fast memory chips to be used on future graphics cards.
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25.2.2007 Terabyte Drive is Coming Now
Having storage problem with your PC? You have downloaded a lot of movies, MP3 songs, games, etc.
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12.2.2007 How to REALLY erase a hard drive
You may already know that “deleting” a file does nothing of the sort. But did you know that your disk drive has a built-in system for the secure erasure of data? No? Then read on.
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4.5.2007 How to REALLY erase a hard drive
You may already know that “deleting” a file does nothing of the sort. But did you know that your disk drive has a built-in system for the secure erasure of data? No? Then read on.
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18.6.2007 How to REALLY erase a hard drive 2
A new version of HDerase.exe has been released Go direct to
UCSD’s Center for Magnetic Recording Research website to download version 3.2.
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19.6.2007 Vista SP1 will deliver big network speed boost
I downloaded the release candidate of Vista Service Pack 1 yesterday and was prepared to wait till its public debut next week before writing about it.
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6.12.2007 Microsoft's own speed tests show IE beating Chrome, Firefox
Microsoft has released its own tests that show IE8 can load many websites faster than two open source browsers: Firefox and Chrome.
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12.3.2009 Performance test: IE8 easily doubles IE7 speed
Internet Explorer 8's speed will be better, its product manager said today, for folks who live in the real world. Tell that to the planet with the Firefox and Safari users.
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19.3.2009 Intel Plans to Speed-Up Desktop Quad-Core Chips’ Bus
Intel Corp. may be planning to once again speed-up its quad-core offering next quarter and introduce a chip with four processing engines with 1333MHz processor system bus (PSB), a rather unexpected, but a very logical move of the world’s largest maker of x86 microprocessors.
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14.4.2007 Vista sets 2007 land-speed record for copying and deleting
It's been almost nine months since we first reported on Windows Vista's inability to copy, delete and move files without stalling indefinitely, and yet the problem continues.
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22.12.2007 Office 2004 for Mac Test Drive
Overview
The Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac Test Drive includes essential tools that can help you transform the way you create, share, and manage ideas and information using all four Office 2004 for Mac programs: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Entourage. After you install the Test Drive, you can use it for 30 days. It includes almost all of the features found in Office 2004. For details about the Office 2004 for Mac Test Drive, see the Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac Test Drive Read Me.
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4.12.2005 Hard drive price war coming
According to reports, we may witness a price war in the hard drive business industry. At least this is what Seagate Technology CEO Bill Watkins said on Wednesday. Seagate is currently the world's largest hard drive manufacturer and competes with such companies as Western Digital, Hitachi, Samsung and Toshiba.
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13.8.2006 Seagate Confirms 1TB Hard Drive
Seagate has confirmed to the folks over at DailyTech, that they plan to launch a 1TB (Terabyte) hard drive sometime in the first half of 2007.
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5.1.2007 New Windows Vista Test Drive Website
"The Windows Vista Business test drive allows you to try this latest operating system from Microsoft..."
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6.1.2007 Test drive the new Windows Live suite
You’ve probably already read about some changes we’re making to Windows Live, and have seen some of your services change over the past few weeks. Starting later today, you'll be able to test out the new suite of Windows Live software at http://get.live.com/wl/all.
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5.9.2007 Fujitsu Shows 500GB Laptop Drive
The latest entry in high-capacity notebooks is Fujitsu, which will release a laptop with a 500GB drive in May.
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25.2.2008 Systembooster 2.1 - Speed up Shutdown, Restart & Logoff Process of Windows 7, Vista & XP
Adding too many applications on Startup may lead to slow restart and shutdown process in Windows and for non technical users it very difficult to find out & fix the reason of slow restart.
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19.5.2009Microsoft Demos Xbox HD DVD
Drive
At the DVD Forum in Los
Angeles Monday, Microsoft took
the wraps off its upcoming
external HD DVD drive for the
Xbox 360. When laid flat, the
add-on is about half the width
of the console and nearly as
high. The Xbox will handle all
the audio and video
processing, Microsoft said...
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09.08.2006Philips and Lite-on announce $199 Blu-ray drive for the PC
If price is the battleground where the war between Blu-ray and HD DVD will be fought, then Philips and Lite-On Digital Solutions fired a new salvo on
Tuesday, with the announcement of a $199 drive. Unfortunately, the internal PLDS DH-4O1S drive is not the official answer to the $99 Toshiba
HD DVD player that went on sale at Wal-mart last week. The DH-401S is an internal drive for the PC that simply plays back Blu-ray, DVD, and CD discs,
although the manufacturers noted that a PC equipped with the drive could be connected via an HDMI cable to a TV.
Spec-wise, the drive reads
either single- or dual-layer BD-R/RE/ROM discs at up to 4X speeds, while single- or double-layer DVD±R or DVD-ROM discs can be read at 12X and
single or double-layer DVD±RW discs can be read at 8X speeds. DVD, Single-layer or Double-layer media at 4X maximum. Single Layer DVD ±R
or DVD-ROM can be read at 12X max, while Double Layer DVD±R and Single Layer DVD±RW can be read at 8X max. CD-R/RW/ROM has a maximum
read speed of 32X.
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14.11.2007Xbox 360 to get new HD DVD drive next year
PC World UK is reporting that Microsoft plans to launch an
updated HD DVD drive for the Xbox 360 in 2008. The announcement was made in London by Mark Bennett,
Microsoft's European business development director for HD DVD.
The original Xbox360 HD DVD drive, launched in November 2006, is
fully compatible with Windows Vista and currently sells for $179.99 after a $20 price drop last month. Additionally, any purchases made between August
1st and September 30th will include five free HD DVD movies. Details on the new HD DVD drive are scarce at the moment; perhaps theyll include a video
and audio decoder chip to lessen the burden on the console.
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21.09.20071st Official HD-DVD drive for PCs
Buffalo will be launching the
HDV-ROM2.4FB at the end of
this month. Officially this
HD-DVD drive (OEMed by
Toshiba) will be the world's
first HD-DVD drive for PCs.
Some high-end PCs already
shipped with HD-DVD drives,
but until now it was
impossible to buy any ATAPI
HD-DVD drives sold
independently for PCs. Next to
HD-DVD discs, the device will
of course also read all
previous formats: DVD±R/RW,
DVD±R/R DL, DVD-ROM and
CD-R/RW/ROM.
The
device will retail for about
38850JPY, thats
~337usd/254eur. Seems a bit
expensive considering the Xbox
360 HD-DVD Addon is already
available right now for just
199usd and can be used in
Windows Vista (natively) and
Windows XP (with some special
drivers) too. The only thing
missing in the Xbox360 HD-DVD
package is PC software to
playback HD-DVD movies. The
Buffalo drive comes with
PowerDVD HD-DVD Edition.
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07.12.2006InterVideo Sues Dell Over DVD Autoplay
Dell was slapped with a lawsuit on Monday from software maker InterVideo over patent infringment regarding DVD technology that allows a DVD to play immediately after inserting it into a drive. InterVideo makes DVD copying and playback software, including the popular WinDVD suite...
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16.08.2005Microsoft denies any Xbox 360 Blu-ray drive possibility
Three years ago at E3 2006, Bill Gates, former CEO of Microsoft, announced a Xbox 360 HD DVD player that was capable of playing HD-DVD's. After
the bloody war between HD-DVDs and Blu-ray discs was over and HD-DVD's were no more, Microsoft decided to discontinue the HD DVD drive for the
Xbox 360. Since then there have been multiple rumours regarding a possible Blu-ray drive coming to the Xbox 360. While statistics from the Digital
Entertainment Group clearly show a spike in Blu-ray movie sales (91% in the first half of this year), Microsoft once again denied that a Blu-ray
player for the Xbox 360 was in the making.
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24.07.2009Xbox 360 HD DVD drive gets the axe
Stopping short of saying it would produce a external Blu-ray drive, Microsoft has discontinued the accessory...
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26.02.2008Toshiba announces desktop HD DVD recorder
Toshiba has announced that
their new HD DVD recorder, the
SD-H903A, will be available
later in January. The drive is
a regular 5.25" form factor,
runs on the SATA interface and
is compatible with various DVD
and CD formats. But don't get
too excited. This is a first
generation model: write speeds
are very limited. 1x on HD
DVD-R (and Dual Layer) media,
8x on DVD-R and DVD+R media
(2.4x on Dual Layer) and
finally 10x on CD-R.
Regardless, all the early
adopters are going to want to
get their hands on the drive.
Too bad Toshiba is only
shipping the drive to OEMs.
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06.01.2007Samsung releases 22X SATA and PATA DVD burners
The Samsung DVD formula has been high speed with reduced noise and lowered power consumption, according to a high-ranking official. Three new 22X
internal DVD burners, which start shipping today, join an external model in the same series...
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07.10.2008Microsoft: No plan for
internal HD-DVD on Xbox
A report surfaced on
Australian technology site
iTWire suggesting that
Microsoft eventually will
release an Xbox 360 that has
been revised to include an HD
DVD drive internally.
Microsoft currently
plans to release an external
HD DVD add-on for the Xbox
360, although an exact price
and launch date have yet to be
announced. What lends some
credence to the report,
however, is that it's Toshiba
(which is behind the HD DVD
format that's competing with
Sony's Blu-ray) that believes
Microsoft will be going the
internal route.
In fact, the article claims
that a senior Toshiba
executive has predicted that
Microsoft will release an Xbox
360 model with an internal HD
DVD drive before the end of
the year. "We have no plans
to release the Xbox 360 with
an internal HD DVD drive,"
Microsoft replied.
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02.07.2006Install Windows Vista from a high speed USB 2.0 Flash Drive
Why would someone want to
install a client OS from a
thumb drive instead of a
DVDROM or over the network?
One reason: Performance.
Installing Windows
Vista from a high speed USB
flash drive is in my
experience the easiest &
fastest way to complete a
Windows Vista install. This is
much faster than using a DVD,
gigabit ethernet, or possibly
even some external USB 2.0
hard drives, due to
differences in access speed &
transfer rate. To put this
into perspective, y'know how
installing Windows on a
Virtual PC virtual machine
from an .ISO CD image is
really, really, really fast?
Imagine something
roughly just as fast, except
for doing installations of the
OS on to actual
workstations.
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01.03.2007Toshiba Builds HD-DVD Enabled
PC
Hot off the heels of news that
Microsoft and Intel are
throwing their support behind
HD-DVD, Toshiba says it has
developed the first PC with an
integrated drive capable of
reading the new
high-definition DVD format.
The PC will launch in Japan
early next year, but a U.S.
debut has not been scheduled...
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28.09.2005LG spiffs up its dual-format DVD computer drive
The Korean electronics maker debuted the second iteration of its external drive that can read both next generation formats, and write to Blu-ray
discs...
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09.01.2008Proposed 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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22.06.2007LaCie Brings the Speed!
LaCie has just unveiled an external Blu-Ray burner that can write at 4x speed. This write speed is twice as fast as the previous model. This drive
will also double as a CDR and DVD burner, writing at 32x and 16x.
Unfortunately, with double the speed comes a hefty price increase at
roughly $900. This is a steep price considering other drives can be bought starting at $200.
The LaCie’s new model designed
by Neil Poulton (the award-winning Scottish designer) will at least look pretty on your computer desk.
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30.05.2008Microsoft stands behind HD DVD for Xbox 360
Microsoft's director of global marketing for the Xbox 360, Albert Penello, told BetaNews this morning that the company will continue to push an HD
DVD drive for the Xbox 360, but acknowledged the external nature would enable it to ship a Blu-ray drive if Sony's format became the new
high-definition standard.
Penello also said that despite the rumors, Microsoft has never planned to ship an Xbox console with an
integrated HD DVD drive, but the decision has nothing to do with the uncertainty in the format war. Because neither standard was finalized when the
Xbox 360 shipped, Microsoft opted to use DVDs.
Changing that now could lead to confusion among consumers, Penello added,
especially if game developers were to make use of the larger space on HD DVD discs. He admitted that Sony's inclusion of Blu-ray in the PlayStation 3
has helped that format, but said Microsoft's add-on HD DVD drive alone has outsold all standalone Blu-ray players combined.
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09.01.2008Microsoft denies new HD DVD drive
Microsoft has denied there will be
a
new HD DVD drive next year or any new PC support, claiming a misquote. A Microsoft spokesperson also told me this morning that there will be no
plans to incorporate HD DVD into the PC platform in the future.
Not too many people were paying attention to the briefing, but I
was taking notes and a journalist on PCW's sister title,
ComputerActive, can also
confirm what I heard, especially since we discussed it afterwards.
Interestingly enough a female reporter, also present at the
event, recorded the whole conversation on a Dictaphone.
He may have said something he didn't mean to, but Mark Bennett, business
development director for HD DVD at Microsoft Europe, told me there would be a new HD DVD drive in 2008 when I pressed him about the dominance of
Blu-ray in the market.
Bennett wouldn't go into details and I have no idea what kind of drive might be on the horizon, since it
could be new colours, a slimmer redesign or internal changes to support
upcoming triple layer HD DVDs.
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22.09.2007Seagate shows off 6Gbps SATA3 hard drive transfer speed
Partnering up with AMD, on Monday Seagate announced the latest Serial ATA specification: SATA3. The new specification offers hard drive transfer
speeds of up to 6Gbps, which is around 600MBps. This new specification was developed by the Serial ATA International Organization, in order to
provide a hefty upgrade from today's SATA2 specification. So just how much of an upgrade is it? Your average SATA2 drive today can offer hard
drive transfer speeds of up to 3Gbps, which is roughly 300MBps, so in theory SATA3 will be twice as fast. As CNET notes, it's important to know
that software and hardware holds back these speeds, so in reality they're about 100MBps less than they could be.
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09.03.2009Cheap $199 Blu-ray Player Announced...for the PC
If price is the battleground where the war between Blu-ray and HD DVD will be fought, then Philips and Lite-On Digital Solutions fired a new salvo on
Tuesday, with the announcement of a $199 drive.
Unfortunately, the internal PLDS DH-4O1S drive is not the official answer to the
$99 Toshiba HD DVD player that went on sale at Wal-mart last
week. The DH-401S is an internal drive for the PC that simply plays back Blu-ray, DVD, and CD discs, although the manufacturers noted that a PC
equipped with the drive could be connected via an HDMI cable to a TV.
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14.11.2007Toshiba to Ship HD DVD Burner for Desktops This Month
Toshiba Corp., the main
driving force behind the HD
DVD hardware, unveiled on
Friday the world's first HD
DVD recorder for desktop
personal computers. The
company hopes that by
releasing the device it will
make the emerging format more
popular among personal
computer (PC) users. "HD DVD
adoption is growing rapidly in
all applications - from gaming
to A/V editing. With its
remarkable resolution, higher
storage capacity and
interactive offerings, HD DVD
brings a superior media
experience to consumers.
Toshiba's new writer will
greatly transform current PC
offerings," said Scott
Maccabe, vice president and
general manager, Toshiba
storage device division.
The Toshiba SD-H903A
drive can playback, read,
record and re-write DVDs (8x
speed for DVD±R, 4x for
DVD±RW, 2.4x for DVD±R DL) as
well as playback, read and
record single- and dual-layer
HD DVDs (at up to 1, HD DVD
ROM discs (at up to 2.4 it
also can playback and burn CDs
(24x CD-R and 16x CD-RW). The
drive has a 8MB buffer to
ensure there is no data
interruption. It is remarkable
that the drive uses modern
Serial ATA interface, which is
found in the absolute majority
of new PCs shipped today.
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