The need for disc storage today’s digital household is enormous, and doesn’t appear to be diminishing anytime soon. I’ve seen some people who have extensive CD collections and have transformed every single square inch of wall space into shelves for their music collection. I used to show off my DVD collection like trophies, putting them [...]
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Verbatim BD-R and BD-RE BluRay Media Review
Let’s face it: DVD is on the way out as a data storage medium. Don’t believe me? Do you remember when writable CDs were all the rage? I do, and I have a receipt for the $1000 2x drive to prove it. Once writeable DVDs became affordable, they were the backup medium of choice, and only [...]
How to Clean CD and DVD Drives
When your CD or DVD (disc) drive starts giving you problems, your first thought may be to replace it or take it to the repair shop, but a good cleaning may be all it needs. Below are three methods to clean the disc drive. The easiest method is the least effective. The hardest method is [...]
NTI Media Maker 8 Review
Over the past few years we’ve bought a lot of specialized software for photo manipulation, video editing, music capture and CD/DVD burning. The boxes sit in our home office library. The software ends up sitting on our hard drive until we upgrade to a new computer. They are probably real good at doing the job [...]
Sony VAIO VGP-XL1B3 Media Changer
I have been looking for a cheap expandable storage method for Media Center for some time. After one of my recent rants about Media Center storage, one of the [OC]ModShop staff members turned me onto the Sony VAIO VGP-XL1B3 CD/DVD changer. This device attaches to any Media Center PC (including Vista) and adds additional storage [...]
Plextor PX-504A DVD-ROM Drive
This is the second optical drive that I have reviewed, the first was a Plextor PlexWriter 40/12/40A which I was very impressed by. DVD burners have become very popular recently with all of the major companies coming out with their own. This particular drive uses a DVD+RW format which was designed by the DVD+RW Alliance [...]
Plextor PX-708A DVD Drive
Multifunction DVD writers are now taking the main stage when it comes to optical drives. Multifunction DVD drives are able to write on both + and – media which makes them very useful. Not only do multifunction DVD writers do both DVD formats but they also burn CD-R and CD-RW making them that much more [...]
PlexWriter CD-RW 40/12/40A
Plextor has always been known to make really great CDRW drives and today I take a look at their PlexWriter 40/12/40A. The PlexWriter drive features a black CD-holder tray which has found to reduce C1 error rates. They have optimized the PCB circuits near the power supply to help decrease noise and provide clean power [...]
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