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 Vista Needs More Time: The Entry I Didn't Want To Write
I've been defending Microsoft's ship schedule for Windows Vista (actual build 5483) for quite some time. Up to this point, I've been confident that Vista would be at the quality level it needs to be by RC1 to make the launch fantastic.
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1.8.2006 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 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 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 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 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 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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19.5.2009 Vista says NO to old DVD drives
Windows Vista will no longer support DVD-ROM drives that do not handle region coding in hardware (RPC1 drives) - thus preventing playback of DVDs that are region/CSS encoded with those drives.
Not a big problem, as RPC1 drives haven't been officially manufactured since 2000 (and Microsoft claims their drives are all broken), but for those with hacked drives (RPC2 with RPC1 firmware), or move the RPC1 drive to new computers, well, no more DVD movies for you!
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2.1.2006 How to Reduce Windows Animation Speed in Windows Vista
When you minimize, maximize or close any windows/applications, the animation speed to perform these tasks is a default setting and you can’t really control it.
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10.2.2009 Vista Retail DVD on Pirate Websites
Copies of Windows Vista Retail DVE have been ripped and made available for download free of charge on pirate websites and peer-to-peer networks.
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7.2.2007 How To Burn Downloaded Windows Vista to DVD
OK, you've just purchased Windows Vista from Windows Marketplace and you selected "Digital Locker Download" instead of "Buy and Ship".
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20.4.2007 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 Installing Vista Beta 1 (x86) without DVD media
I know, I know - Everyone should have a DVD burner these days... but I don't. Here's a rough guide on getting Vista Beta 1 (x86) installed without the use of DVD media. I am not responsible for lost partitions, data, etc!
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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 Windows Vista Retailing: All versions On 1 DVD: Color Coded
As you may have heard there are going to be a “few” versions of Microsoft Vista when it is finally released. Redmond this week start to lift some of the details for retailers. Some interesting ones to note are that all versions of Vista will be on the same DVD.
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18.9.2006 Vista SP2 RTM DVD ISO Images Available for Download
Microsoft released Windows Vista Service Pack 2 to manufacturing on April 28, 2009. As was the case with Vista SP1, the RTM and General Availability dates failed to coincide.
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15.5.2009 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 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 Burn your Windows Vista DVD ISO's slowly, warns Microsoft
Microsoft is advising Vista beta testers to burn their downloaded ISOs as slowly as 1X or 2X to avoid corrupted media.
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10.7.2006 Adding Blu-ray and HD DVD to Vista Media Center
As part of my ongoing Vista Media Center project, I’m about to add Blu-ray and HD DVD playback capabilities to my living room system. I already know that the system is fully capable of recording and playing back over-the-air high-definition content.
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1.9.2007 Download Windows Vista SP1 RTM Standalone DVD ISO
Over two months since Windows Vista SP1 was released to manufacturing on February 4, 2008, and almost a month since it became available to the general public on March 18, the first service pack for the latest Windows client is once again available for download.
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15.4.2008 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 Windows Vista Service Pack 2 -SP2 Beta Standalone DVD ISO
As of December 2, 2008, Microsoft made available for download the first fully-fledged Beta of Windows Vista Service Pack 2, via MSDN and TechNet subscribers.
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5.12.2008 Windows Vista with SP2 RTM Slipstreamed/Integrated DVD ISO Image
Microsoft has finalized the Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, which has been RTMed as version 6.0.6002.18005.
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27.5.2009 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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12.3.2009IsoBuster 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.
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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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23.12.2006LaCie 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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30.05.2008The Toshiba write-down for HD DVD: $1.1 billion
The company's exit from HD DVD is putting a significant drag on its bottom line, it admitted on Wednesday...
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20.03.2008Toshiba Debuts Laptop HD DVD Writer
Toshiba said Monday that it
had produced the first HD DVD
writer for mobile PCs, which
would also have read and write
capabilities for standard DVD
as well as CD discs. At 12.8
millimeters in height, Toshiba
says that the unit would be
able to be used in most slim
form factor laptops...
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03.10.2006Breakthrough in Blue Lasers Yields 10X Write Times
Nichia Corporation of Japan
has announced a new
blue-violet laser that can
fill up a 54GB double-layer
disc at more than 10X record
speed, compared to typical 2x
and 4x Blu-ray/HD-DVD format
disc recorders. In other
words, instead of a 50 minute
write-time at 2x, the future
holds a 10 minute write-time
at 10x. According to blue
laser expert Steven DenBaars,
the key to faster write times
lies in the power of the
laser. Faster burn times allow
the disc to be rotated at a
higher speed. A 2X device can
sustain a write speed of only
8.99 Mbps, while a 10X laser
disc recorder can achieve a
writing velocity of 44.9
Mbps.
Nichia's new
blue-violet semiconductor
laser diodes can reportedly
operate at 320 mW
(milliwatts), while the
average current consumer grade
blue laser devices are in the
range of 20mW. " Writing
speed is totally dictated by
the output power. The more
power you have, the faster you
can spin the disk ,"
DenBaars said. The UCSB team,
led by blue laser inventor and
former Nichia researcher Shuji
Nakamura, recently
demonstrated the world's
first nonpolar blue-violet
laser diodes. The technology,
which is still two to four
years away, could eventually
produce blue laser diodes that
operate in the range of 500
mW.
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25.02.2007Burn your Windows Vista DVD
ISO's slowly
Microsoft has warned public
beta testers to burn
downloaded Vista ISOs to disc
at speeds as slow as 1X or 2X
in order to get a reliable
burn.
It says a
key reason behind installation
failure of Vista is that many
DVD burners cannot reliably
burn a disc at high
speed.
The
interesting tidbit was
included in the release notes
for the interim update to
Vista Beta 2 (build 5456.5;
not publicly available) and
sheds light on the magnitude
of the problem of unreliable
DVD burns.
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08.07.2006Samsung 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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07.10.2008Pioneer to release first 12x Blu-ray Disc burner
Pioneer has nabbed victory in being the first company to manufacture a 12x Blu-ray writer for single and dual-layer media. The current generation of
Blu-ray burners holds a maximum write speed of 8x, making the new release quite a performance boost. In addition to cutting burn times, Pioneer
claims that the new BDR-205 burner has been designed with a low vibration mechanism that will improve writing accuracy over the current generation of
burners. The burner will also be able to read and write DVD media at 16x and CD media at 40x.
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01.10.2009Those who can't hack (much), write
Since there have been computer intrusions, it seems, there have been crackers (that is, black-hat "hackers") wanting to write books detailing
What They Did. But often, the better the hack, the less the urge to write a book about it...
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14.10.2008Panasonic ships World's Thinnest Blu-ray Disc Drives
Panasonic has begun shipping samples of the world's thinnest (that’s 9.5 mm to be exact) internal Blu-ray Disc drives to personal computer
manufacturers. The new sample 9.5 mm high BD drives were accomplished by combining Panasonic’s own technologies such as the low-profile, 2-lens
actuator and spherical aberration compensation mechanism and an optimized optical design for the CD, DVD and Blu-ray disc laser. Even with its thin
profile, the new BD drive features double speed reading and writing for both write-once BD-R and rewritable BD-RE discs. All Blu-Ray discs have a
maximum reading speed of 2x. Single layer discs are written at 2x while double layer discs have a max writing speed of 1x.
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30.12.2007Samsung and Microsoft work to speed up SSDs
A few weeks ago SanDisk slated Windows Vista for not being optimized for SSD (Solid State Drive) storage hardware.
"As soon as you
get into Vista applications in notebook and desktop, you start running into very demanding applications because Vista is not optimized for flash
memory solid-state disk”. Said Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Eli Harari
SandDisk’s solution is to develop a new
controller technology which will overcome these limitations but could take upto a year to reach the market.
Now according to
PCworld Samsung has been in talks with Microsoft to increase the performance of SSDs using Vista
and other MS OSes.
The speed and way in which SSDs fetch and cache data are different than hard drives, said Michael Wang, flash marketing
manager at Sun.
Standard magnetic hard drives have a 512kb cluster size where as SSDs only have a 4kb cluster size. Samsung hopes to work
with Microsoft to boost SSD performance on Windows by discovering optimal packet sizes for data transfers and the best ways to read and write files,
for example.
SSDs have been hailed as the future storage medium for PC’s and internet connected devices, citing speed, power use and
durability.
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07.08.2008No HD DVD or Blu-ray in 32-bit
Vista
Microsoft disclosed at TechEd
2006 in Sydney Thursday that
32-bit versions of Windows
Vista would never support
high-definition protected
content, including HD DVD and
Blu-ray movies. The new
formats will require 64-bit
systems running the x64
edition of Vista...
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26.08.2006Toshiba 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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06.01.2007Install 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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01.03.2007LG 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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09.01.2008HP Goes Format-Neutral, Backs
HD DVD
HP publicly announced its
support for HD DVD Friday,
officially joining the HD DVD
Promotions Group and saying it
would remain neutral. As
expected, the core reason of
HP's cooling to Sony's
Blu-ray disc technology was
the group's failure to use
iHD, which would be supported
natively in Windows Vista...
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17.12.2005Vista Shootout: Hotfixes Vs. SP1
The Web has been abuzz with chatter about Windows Vista's upcoming Service Pack 1 (SP1): What it will and will not fix, how it will affect
performance, how long will it take to install, and so on. PC manufacturers, some journalists, and a great deal of torrent addicts already have the
service pack, and we're among that crew.
While there are lots of things to write about SP1, the first thing we're going to
focus on is performance. Sure, security is important as is compatibility, but we're hoping SP1 turns Vista into the screaming speed demon Microsoft
once seemed to suggest it would be. Of course, when we say performance , we're mainly talking about games, but we checked out other areas in
which it supposedly improves the Vista experience as well.
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05.03.2008Sony Unveils 4X Blu-ray Disc Burner
Sony on Tuesday announced its second-generation Blu-ray disc burner for computers, which doubles the speed of its predecessor to 4X. The BWU-200S can
record a full 50GB disc in 45 minutes, and also improves upon standard DVD+R burning speed, which is now at 16X...
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09.10.2007Three-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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11.09.2007Do you know how to deploy?
James Senior: Who actually uses a DVD to deploy? Do you build PC's and sell them? Are you frustrated? Frustrated by the speed of your deployments?
Do you find yourself waiting, brewing tea waiting, wondering if... if there is a better way, a better way to deploy the one thing that holds you back.
Yes, I'm talking about your Operating System. I don't mean to be rude, but the number of people who put their hands up at roadshows when we ask
the question, "who installs their OS using DVD" is quite frankly worrying...no disturbing. Let me put it in perspective.
If
you are installing your OS, beit Windows Vista (preferably) or Windows XP by DVD then in effect you might as well install it using floppy disks.
Although technically not a fair comparison the analogy holds true.
What then is the alternative?
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