Related topics

Digital Video(!?) Disc Player 1399,- DM
Feel free to drop me a note if you have any further questions. Regards John Yuen dwil...@sjmercury.com wrote: My name is Dave Wilson and I write about technology for the San Jose Mercury News. I'm doing a story on people who bought laptops with DVD drives to watch movies on the road.

maximum geheugen
I submitted this problem with feedback after having sp 1 installed, I hope the heck they fix there software in vista to help us all with the problems with windows not responding, freezing, not working at all or dropping our cd/dvd drives. -- Robyn "Colin Barnhorst" wrote: Glad to hear you're making progress.

Drop in DVD production quality lately??
a-znet.com> wrote: If I look at the AutoPlay properties of my dvd reader drive the drop down combobox shows Music files, pictures, mixed content,music cd, video files, dvd movie and hddvd. Should there be something like Install or Setup? When I insert a software installation cd nothing happens.

Macintosh DVD-RAM, Wired4DVD, MPEG 2/DVD creation: What a long road.
The problem drive happens to be a CD/DVD writer. The Mfr says the problem is with WinXP and combined CD/DVD writers. WinXP does not reliably write to CD-R when files are staged in the Explorer window. The Mfr claims that the only reliable way to write with "drag and drop" to his drive is with Roxio's Direct CD.

drag and drop problems
"I think there's more incentive for component manufacturers [to bring out 16X], because there's a large market of users out there, ready to [buy] DVD drives," says Schlichting. Plextor Vice President of Sales and Marketing Howard Wing credits the surge in demand with a drop in prices: "DVD prices have come down

CD Drive problems
commit 435f0f4496a1b32af2d542f43b2370a890fe2f83 Author: Borislav Petkov <petko...@gmail.com> Date: Sat Feb 16 09:56:36 2008 +0100 ide-cd: Enable audio play quirk for Optiarc DVD RW AD-5200A drive Reported-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.ba...@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <petko...@gmail.com> diff --git

combo blu-ray/hd dvd pc drive?
All Windows PCs equiped with DVD drives come with DVD players, BTW. Just FYI. You've surveyed in and every Windows PC with DVD on offer anywhere have you? Slow week at work? The hilarious thing is you think you made a clever reply when all you did is make a fool of yourself. Thanks for dropping by to show off your

Toshiba to drop HD-DVD - almost official
Make sure that DMA is turned on for any IDE hard disks and ATAPI/IDE CD/DVD drives. In System Properties - go to each drive individually and switch this on. You'll then need to reboot the PC 3/ If you are running an OHCI-standard FireWire card or port and are dropping frames, check out the web site of your

When I insert a software installation cd nothing happens
The tremendous price drop in the PC world is pushing this trend, despite the fact that these drives have more parts that a "Japanese drives". These are ATAPI drives with standard IDE port, but I have no experience if you can simply plug-and-play between different drives. BTW, all DVD drives are not actually 1x,

It's official: Toshiba Announces Discontinuation of HD DVD ...
This is at least the 10th cd\dvd drive i've installed in my system over the years. All the recent high speed drives have required DMA to achieve maximum transfer rate. And I test everything I install so I have seen the DMA not enabled performance drop off before. A Schmidt was the first person I responded to,

Cannot erase DVD-RW
... in-use multi-session compilation Fixed a problem with some DVD-R drives which occurred while continuing multi-session Improvement of getting the correct write speed in case of DVD+R/RW media for dual (+-) DVD drives New: Added several new recorders Caching for drag & drop audio files from CD-ROM drives improved

Apple Video Sales Beat Blu-Ray Video Sales Kill HD-DVD Video Sales
My problem is: In spite of this function (Autoplay) is chosen in properties of CD & DVD drive after inserting disks in these drives no any offers to Explore the There is a drop down list for data, video, music, photos, ect and there is a small easily overlooked radio button at the top and bottom of that actions

Freedom threatened (was: Linux threatened)
I've got a combo drive for my computer as well. I was just saying I like my stand alone Toshiba HD-DVD player. It's a fine piece of electonix. Bud Curtis <bud...@gmail.com> wrote: Well, this isn't exactly current news: http://akgeeks.net/BDDVDvsHDDVD But interesting that Wal-Mart is the first to drop HD-DVD.

When I insert a software installation cd nothing happens
+G positive_g-s...@hotmail.com-snip hfx forsale Which may mean the Xboxes today will have better DVD drives! Better get yours quick. I believe it's just a redesigned version of the XBox, apparently they are trying to find a way to cut their costs. I think the DVD drive is supposed to be cheaper.

UDMA66 problems persist
Sooner or later, and I predict sooner, like Redmond finally shot DOS in the head with XP, Phillips and Sony and Toshiba, et alia, will shoot CD in the head and drop it in the dumpster. No doubt. But not for DVD drives. Possibly for blue laser drives, but that's a new technology, and progress marches on.

Techie Question reqarding DVD drives.
Usually, I start with two HDDs (PM and SM), a CD-ROM (PS), and a DVD drive (SS). Given that I infrequently do DAE (Digital Audio Extraction) and similar types of activities, which DVD drive would you recommend? I may install dual DVD drives and drop the CD-ROM drive (price difference is maybe $50-$60) if the DVD

Nero 5.5.10.28
I disagree with other posters who recommended larger hard drive or DVD: As a general rule, you shouldn't pay for more storage than you can forseeably need, because hard drive prices are always dropping at dramatic rates, and by the time you need more, it will be available at a fraction of the cost.

DVD-Ram to DVD-R?
It is TOSHIBA that has their name associated with HD-DVD, and NOT Microsoft. The number of external XBox360 HD-DVD drives that retailers have is minimal. The number of factories that tooled up to The company was ready to drop HD-DVD that year and join the Blu-Ray consortium, but Microsoft pushed it to continue.

How should I permanently store digital photographs?
ShakaNui shaka...@gmail.com B-Movies this was dumb fun...perfect for middle of the non sleep type nightas it is more fun than even tossing and turning s from DVD Drive-in http://imdb.com/title/tt0086374/externalreviews *STRANGE INVADERS (1983) Director: Michael Laughlin MGM* *In 1958 in the fictional town of

New version of Nero available -5.5.10.28
Chrissy C...@home.gen.nz nz comp cowboyz wrote Firstly reference to CD/DVD drives that are ATA100 compatible. The Asus 16x DVD is. The difference we got by setting things up the way we wanted it was that our movie would play with twice the bit rate for sound and twice as many frames/sec with no dropping frames.