CD/DVD Technology
CD/DVD Players/Burners/Media and duplication software/techniques
CD Exploading.
Now I for one didn't think it was possible at a normal drive speed but yesterday it happened. I was at my friends house playing games when we all just suddenly hear a loud pop. At first I thought his memory just arched or something because he s...
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Media files from Vista to Mac using DVD
I'm trying to put some .avi files from my PC (Vista) to a Mac. When the DVD goes in the Mac it says it says it is a blank DVD. I tried using .rar files but again the Mac said it was a blank DVD.
How can I get the Mac to read the files?
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Computer Unable to Recognize CD and DVD Drives
I just bought a new computer. It came with two drives. A CD drive, and a DVD drive. These drives were working when I first recieved the computer, and for a time afterwards. However recently both drives are not being recognized by the computer. ...
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Drive Cleaner
I have a CD duplicator here, and the person using it believes that the lens may be dirty or something of that nature. Does anyone know of a good but cheap drive cleaner?
Basically you stick a special CD in the drive, let it spin, and it clea...
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Recognized, yet not recognized!?
My Samsung CDRW/DVD SM-352B is being recognized by my computer, but I just installed Roxio and it doesnt recognize it. Also, before I installed Roxio I installed CDRWIN and it asked me if I wanted to turn off the feature that asks me what I wan...
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Burning problem
I'm currently trying to burn some old-time radio show recordings onto an audio CD. These show are very small space wise due to low audio quality. What I'm trying to find out is if I can fill a CD with audio tracks based off of size not time. Be...
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DVD wont play. copy protection...?
well i borrowed my neighbors Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers dvd.
havent watched it in ages
anyway i put it in and first tried to play it with WMP.
it says it cant play because "Windows Media Player cannot play this DVD because a...
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Error code 39 DVD RW not woking
Hi I have Vista Premium and in My Computer the drive is not there! It's in device manager with a explanation point! HELP! CANT BURN PICTURE DVDS FOR FAMILY!
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new comp but cd/dvd drives??
Now I seem to have most of the things I want for a new computer, however I just realised I need a cd drive. Thing I am confused with is this.
I see my old computer and it has a disk drive, and a cd drive. HOWEVER, people are telling mem to g...
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Laptop HD DVD drive
is the connector on the back of a laptop hd dvd drive the same as the connector on the back of a laptop dvd drive? also if i plug an hd dvd drive into my laptops disk drive port that came with a regular dvd drive, will it work?
and, what is th...
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SATA vs PATA
Is there a speed difference between the two, and if so, is it noticeable on doing tasks such as installing applications and burning disks? Currently I have a Lite-on DVD-ROM and a HP DVD 640i.
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SATA optical drives?
The book I'm reading (from 2006) warns against SATA optical drives because of compatibility issues, but I'm having trouble finding PATA drives on newegg. Or is PATA the same as E-IDE / ATAPI? Is IDE also the same?
Thanks.
Also, is it still th...
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help please
my dvd-rw is only reading a cd i put a dvd-rw in and it says
"disc in the drive is not a writable cd or it is full" well its a brand new dvd-rw
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Table of Contents on CDs - Help Req'd
Good morning,
I own a company in which we have a number of documents that we provide clients in paper copy. I would like to start handing out a CD or DVD instead but would like to create nice title page for the reports - when the user loads ...
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2 Drives but only shows 1
Hi, I have 2 drives, both DVDs both connected and at one time were both recognised. since an engineer came to sort out my hard drive only 1 DVd drive is showing. I can swap them around so that each shows up in Devices but will not show together...
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Cd/DvD burner
I need to get a new Cd/DvD burner and i was thinking around $30. Does anyone kno of any reliable ones?
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Dvd+r Dl
Anyone find a place to pick these up fairly cheap? I was at Best Buy the other day and they want about $2+ a disc or so.
Anyone trust/use these RiDATA 8x discs?
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CD Drive Not Showing Up
I just got rid of Windows Vista and put XP back on my machine. Since I went back to XP, my CD Drive has not been showing up in my "My Computer", and I don't know of any other way to access stuff that is on a CD or DVD. Any thoughts? T...
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DVD Drives
I'm interested in getting a DVD-ROM drive in my computer. I am currently running under Linux, so I'm guessing it is not to hard to get codecs. What is the best drive? The machine is a little older. Would it lag while playing?
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upgrade laptop disk drive?
i have a laptop with a removable disk drive. is it possible to upgrade to an HD-DVD or Blu-Ray drive? if so what are some good ones for laptops?
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Not reading disks?
Hey all,
I've been having this problem with my DVD player for awhile now. It's an older model (Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-104 if I recall correctly). It used to be installed on my other computer (came factory installed), but started to reboot my com...
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Looking for an app to slow down my drive!
As the title suggests, I'm looking for a gui app that I can use to change the speed on my drive on the fly. The reason being is that my DVD drive in my HTPC is a touch on the loud side, and it's kinda irritating to listen to while watching a d...
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Converting rippe audio files to........
My cousin sent me his cd. So I ripped it to my windows media player.
Then I tried to burn it to a blank disk.I wouldnt work in a cd player si I put the disk into my pc and it asked me how I wanted to play the audio files.
So my question is h...
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CD/DVD Drive Is Empty, Yet Reads Full
Hey all,
I have a Matshita DVD-RAM UJ-841S optical drive. I spent the mornig ripping CDs to iTunes, when progress froze in the middle of a song, but iTunes did not freeze.
iTunes closed normally, and the CD ejected normally. Now, the dri...
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Fast dvd burning software asap.
Well I got a bunch of .avi movies on my pc and I use nero but it takes forever to transcode and burn and all like 2 hours or a bit less.
Is there any other program I can just drag the .avi file into and it does it faster then that?
Edit: I do...
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HD DVDs and BLU-RAYs
so on an 800 x 1280 14.1" monitor, can you really tell the difference between standard and HD movies? also what are the dimensions of standard movies?
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How to retrieve data from scratched cd/dvd?
Hi,
I got an cd-rw but when ever i place it in my drive the whole my computer hangs up and i have to press reset button. how can i retrieve data from this cd.
How about using dos prompt? but i dont knw all commands.
Help me.
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Do i Need a New Drive?
Right now i have a dell dimension 3000 computer and am going to get a new computer soon. I was wondering if i need to get a dvd drive or if i can just take the ones i already have off my dell and put them in my new computer.
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