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Blu-Ray dectrators echo 1990s DVD hate

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2008-08-21 18:22:36 by Rob Beschizza in Boing Boing Gadgets
...DVD" laserdiscs would never be a success. The punchline is, of course, that most of them are identical to the reasons now given why Blu-Ray will fail The first three: No-one will re-buy movies they've got on VHS; there aren't enough movies on the format; recording is expensive and annoying Conspicuously absent from the earlier griping,...
 
 
 
 
 
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DVD Book Type Setting - Troubleshooting DVD Burning Problems

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2008-04-29 17:09:17 by Editor in VoIP & Gadgets Blog
...DVDRW drives using "hacked" firmware for your DVD burner. Often the hacked firmware enables missing features such as overclocking the speed of the DVD burn and more importantly, setting the 'book type' permanently to "DVD-ROM". (more on that later) RPC1.org also offer "autopatchers", which are are easy do-it-yourself tools with an easy-to-use...
 
 
 
 
 
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USB Portable DVD Multi Drive

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2008-02-05 16:02:41 by admin in Cool Gadgets and Gizmos
...DVD Multi Drive that will probably do whatever job you throw at it quietly and without fuss, although I dont think the $78 price tag sits down very nicely with me. Nonetheless, below are additional specifcations Matshita DVD-RAM UJ-841S CD Read/Write speed: 24x, 10x DVD Read/Write speed: 8x, 4x, 2.4x, 5x Supports Media (Read): DVD+R, DVD+RW,...
 
 
 
 
 
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USB Portable DVD Multi Drive

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2008-02-05 08:16:02 by Editor in Ubergizmo
...DVD Multi Drive that will probably do whatever job you throw at it quietly and without fuss, although I don't think the $78 price tag sits down very nicely with me. Nonetheless, below are additional specifcations Matshita DVD-RAM UJ-841S CD Read/Write speed: 24x, 10x DVD Read/Write speed: 8x, 4x, 2.4x, 5x Supports Media (Read): DVD+R,...
 
 
 
 
 
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HD-DVD: Don't Throw in The Towel

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2008-01-05 22:59:46 by Lance Ulanoff in Gearlog
...DVD I know things look bad right now. One of your closest and perhaps smartest partners--Warner Home Video--has walked away from you. You're reaction has been strangely muted and now I hear you've canceled a CES press conference. Not good, HD-DVD I don't think the war is over, but I understand why things look grim. If you want to overcome,...
 
 
 
 
 
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USB Portable DVD Multi Drive

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2008-02-05 15:02:09 by admin in GadgetBB News Blog
...DVD Multi Drive that will probably do whatever job you throw at it quietly and without fuss, although I dont think the $78 price tag sits down very nicely with me. Nonetheless, below are additional specifcations :- Matshita DVD-RAM UJ-841S CD Read/Write speed: 24x, 10xDVD Read/Write speed: 8x, 4x, 2.4x, 5x Supports Media (Read): DVD+R,...
 
 
 
 
 
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The Truth About the Format War and HD DVD's Demise [The End Of The Format War]

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2008-01-21 10:00:00 by matt buchanan in Gizmodo
...DVD camp might be ready to pull up stakes. Back at CES, so many moons ago, Microsoft said HD DVD was over when Toshiba said it was. Ken Graffeo, Universal's Executive VP and Co-President of HD DVD promo group, told us the exact same thing: "If Toshiba says it's over, it is over." Our impression? Toshiba knows it's over. The crazy part is...
 
 
 
 
 
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Toshiba Kills HD DVD

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2008-02-19 00:29:33 by Rob Beschizza in Gadget Lab
...DVD hardware. From its press release Toshiba Corporation today announced that it has undertaken a thorough review of its overall strategy for HD DVD and has decided it will no longer develop, manufacture and market HD DVD players and recorders. This decision has been made following recent major changes in the market. Toshiba will continue,...
 
 
 
 
 
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A Consumer's Cheat Sheet to HD DVD's Death and Blu-ray's Victory [Format War Over]

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2008-02-19 14:09:45 by Jason Chen in Gizmodo
...DVD is dead . Officially. That may mean a whole bunch for the early-adopter tech geek crowd that's been wading in the kiddie pool of technological bickering and backhandedness for years, but what does it mean for the average consumer with only a cursory interest in high-def DVDs? Here's our cheat sheet Q&A for you to whip out if you ever have...