News of Recordable Media Discussion

Hi guys.

How does private copying levy work in Canada? I checked the details of the same and found that the government charges $0.21 per CD-R/CD-RW(non-audio). More information can be seen at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_copying_levy#Canada

I checked the price of Verbatim 52X CD-R on http://www.newegg.ca. Interestingly I found that they were selling it around $22. So, if you multiply $0.21 x 100 for a spindle pack, the levy itself comes to about $21.

I was wondering how ...

Hi there.

Has anyone tried the Imation printable 16X DVD+R's? If so, hows the write quality?

I saw the same at a shop at a very good price, about $16 for a spindle of 50. Sony normal, not the printable one's, cost around $20.

Thans!
::Pranav::

Many drives support it and I found many announcements from suppliers. Where can I get 12x DVD-RAM?

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imtrying to put movie files from a dvd into my computer.i opened up my software and tried to put the files from a dvd -r into my hard drive.the dvd-r had a problem.the error
message said "cannot continue.....failed to open the file c/document&settings/owner/
mydocuments/nerovision.there r no more files.ok i tried this same action with a dvd+
r disk and it processed the movie on it with out a problem.how are these 2 dvds diff- ...

Are these discs simply good for only throwing out or are they good enough to use for storing divx/xvid encodes? How long will they stay useable after storage...only a few years or longer?

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i have a stack of tdk dvd discs that im not sure what they are used for.the writting on them says"dvd+r 1-16x/4.7gb.is
this a data disc?i know i cant used the in my computer for buring movies 2.i used them in my panasonic dvd player re-
corder and they recorded ok in it.

lenny

Hi All

I'm having a hard time finding a program that will help me determine burned blu-ray disc quality. I've used PlexTools pro. for dvd drives and it reports c1 c2 and cu errors. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks (^_^)

It looks like we'll finally be able to buy 6x Blu-ray media in October. Prices aren't too bad either. Only $13.99 for a 25GB BD-R disc.

http://www.cdrlabs.com/News/imation-bri ... arket.html

Imation Corp. (NYSE: IMN), exclusive licensee of the "TDK Life on Record" recording media brand, today announced the first 6x Blu-ray recordable (BD-R) and Blu-ray recordable double layer (BD-R DL) media for the U.S. retail market. Imation is also ...

It took a long a time. But finally there is a new database update available.

The new update should bring massive improvements for the recognition of Blu Ray and DVD+R-DL media. Additionally it will now finally be able to identify the manufacturers of some really old media.

Updates can be downloaded by the program, or from the website dvd.identifier.cdfreaks.com

While I don't think this is the end of Prodisc, they're definitely in big trouble. According to CEN, they're going to be shutting down their optical disc business.

http://news.cens.com/cens/html/en/news/ ... 24208.html

Prodisc Technology Inc., the world`s fourth largest and Taiwan`s third-largest optical-disk maker, filed for corporate restructuring yesterday (Aug. 4) and will exit the market, a move expected to give a relief to other makers in the line from ...