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DVDs marry imperfectly with drives
News Recordable DVDs stand a substantial chance of being incompatible with DVD drives, but the situation is improving with new models, according to an ongoing government survey. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a division of...
[December 5, 2003, 13:15]
Virtual DVDs
Downloads For all of us, who like to rip our DVDs to our computer: Now you can simply rename the folder containing the VIDEO_TS folder by adding a ".vdvd" extension to the end. Now, when you double-click, my "Virtual DVDs" app will use DVD Player to open and...
[December 6, 2007, 7:00]
Process of renting DVDs online granted patent
News People can keep a limited number of DVDs for the length of the subscription or swap them for new titles. Netflix has been granted a wide-ranging patent encompassing its online DVD rental service, in a win that could pose a legal speed bump to Wal...
[June 25, 2003, 14:09]
Matsushita to test pirate-proof DVDs
News As part of the trial, InterPia will give out free teaser DVDs containing movie clips and other kinds of entertainment. Disney is also set to test a system of movie rental which uses DVDs that undergo a chemical reaction to become physically...
[June 9, 2003, 8:25]
heat problems DVDs, CD-Rs not reading
Member Review Above 25 degrees the laptop doesn't read DVDs and CD-Rs. This is defenitely not a laptop for Africa. The stickers and rubber feets come off the body and all of a sudden it simply stops working.
[March 3, 2005, 12:26]
Iomega eyes 800GB DVDs
News Storage company Iomega is looking to increase the capacity of DVDs up to 100 times, meaning it could, conceivably, create 800GB discs. Current DVDs can hold up to about 8.5GB of data. The company announced on Tuesday that it had been issued a...
[May 26, 2005, 10:45]
Maxell toughens up DVDs
News Additionally, Maxell said, the antistatic quality of the new DVDs means they can be used in dusty environments and in jukeboxes. Additionally, at this month's Consumer Electronics Show, Imation showcased DVDs with a "memory protection" layer that...
[January 21, 2005, 16:35]
Move over DVDs, here comes the HVD
News The consortium said an HVD disc could hold as much data as 200 standard DVDs and transfer data at over 1 gigabit per second, or 40 times faster than a DVD. The entire contents of your server on one optical disk?
[February 4, 2005, 9:00]
Why DVDs have been a desktop dud
News Movies are all the rage when it comes to DVDs, but this is not what PC makers had in mind when they started building them into their systems. DVDs, with 8.5GB of capacity, were supposed to overtake CDs as the mass-storage medium of choice in all PCs.
[August 25, 2000, 9:13]
News Burst: Writeable DVDs from Jobs' resurgent Apple
News "Power to burn" DVDs, CD-RW and Pentiums, that's the message Steve Jobs, Apple's chief executive, is getting over at the MacWorld Expo is San Francisco Tuesday. Commenting on the company's latest G4 machines, Jobs delivered an industry first with...
[January 9, 2001, 16:56]
Sony mod-chip lawsuit leaves DVDs in the clear
News But lawyers on both sides said that regioning of DVDs is unlikely to be affected. Regioning refers to the practice of encrypting media -- usually DVDs -- according to regions of the world so that they only work with players encoded to the same region.
[January 25, 2002, 17:29]
Lindows PCs play DVDs
Talkback So does my Red Hat pc.apt-get install ogle Voila, dvd's play great. Cost = $0
[July 30, 2003, 21:16]
Move over DVDs, here comes the HVD
Talkback Move over DVD, Blu-Ray, and HVD ! HERE comes Atomic Holographic Optical Nanostorage http://colossalstorage.net
[February 4, 2005, 17:02]
Move over DVDs, here comes the HVD
Talkback This kind of spelling leaves users a little cynical! Interesting, but not relevant to todays purchasers. It will clearly be some time before the technology is stable enough and cheap enough.
[February 4, 2005, 16:27]
Iomega eyes 800GB DVDs
Talkback 300 Gigabyte to 10 Petabyte holographic Disks to Dominate the future. Blu-Ray, HD-DVD, and Iomega are just bandaids according to company. Colossal Storage Corp.predicts holographic storage will dominate storage in the next 5 to 10 years.http...
[May 26, 2005, 20:09]
Lindows PCs play DVDs
News Lindows.com, which makes a consumer-oriented version of the Linux operating system, introduced on Tuesday an application that allows computers running the Lindows OS to play commercial DVDs. In addition to DVDs, the application can play CDs, video...
[July 29, 2003, 15:29]
Move over DVDs, here comes the HVD
Talkback I think this kind of forcasting can leave people a little synacle, when DVD came out I didn't know what would be next. Yet Blue Ray is not even pronounced winner and people are talking about a successor.
[February 4, 2005, 14:01]
Setback for next-gen DVDs
Talkback Set - Back Next Year when Holographic Disk start coming on the market and hold hundreds and even thousands of HD or Blu-Ray. Blu-Ray and HD will be DEAD in 5 years,
[August 23, 2005, 15:00]
Setback for next-gen DVDs
Talkback Of course they can't agree, they're Japanese, they'll loose their honour or something like that. Never mind the end user.
[August 23, 2005, 22:30]
Maxell toughens up DVDs
Talkback Dear data storage enterprises, http://p2pnet.net/story/3607
[January 23, 2005, 18:52]
