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How are commercial DVD's burned? [closed]
I'm not talking about the DVD-R's here. When you buy retail software and DVD movies from the store for example, how is that DVD burned onto the original disc? What would I need if I want to burn those ...
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Will there ever be faster CD and DVD discs and writers?
I was thinking about the fact that in the last years I have never seen CDs and DVDs supporting writing/reading speeds higher than 52X and 16X, respectively.
Is this a commercial choice (i.e. ...
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What does Verify disc after burning actually do to verify the data?
I imagine it is some kind of comparison between the original files and the files that have been burned on the disc, but does anybody know how it is really done at a low level?
I mean, does it create ...
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Slot load DVD burner options for standard desktop case
I need a new DVD burner (internal) for my father-in-law's computer. He's apparently broken the current one - he forgot to push the tray back in after doing something and hit it with his chair.
Given ...
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How is a hard-drive a bottleneck when burning a CD or DVD?
I have always wondered why people keep blaming hard-drives for causing buffer underruns when burning a CD or DVD. I’ve read many people saying to use a faster hard-drive or to make sure to defragment ...
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Is there a lifespan for a dvd rom drive?
Specifically a liteon dvd multi recorder. Which can burn and read dvd's.
Is there a specific number of burns which you can use? And after that, the burner will no longer work?
Do you know of any ...
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DVD drive doesn't recognize blank dvds only!
My dvd-rom works fine because I can play dvds on it, however when the dvd is a blank one the drive refuses to recognize it. So I can't burn dvds anymore because the drive shows up as empty in my disk ...
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Recover badly recorded DVDs
A few years ago (2003-2005) I bought a Sony USB external DVD recorder for my Dell laptop and I used it to burn a lot of discs. Much later, when I tried to use one of these discs, I realised that I ...
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Can I rename my CD or DVD drive?
I have 7 CD drives. Currently I'm writing the CDs using NTI Media Maker.
The problem is that all drives have weird name like HL DVD-RW S224. It is very hard to find which drive is which.
Is there ...
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High-end CD/DVD burners?
Do such things exist? I wouldn't mind paying $100 to $200 for one, but it must:
Have a very fast spin-up to ready time (less than one second)
Have an even faster dismount time (say, half second)
Can ...
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Unable to mount DVDs on Gentoo
I'm unable to mount any dvd on my HP 6735s laptop running Gentoo (with combined stable (+) and testing (~) ebuilds). Here's everything that I can come up with:
$uname -a
Linux aiur 2.6.32.6-aiur-r5 #...
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How can I troubleshoot a slow DVD writer?
I have a Thinkpad t60 - 15". It comes with a Matshita uj-842 DVD-ram drive.
When writing to a DVD, it settles at 2x speed. Research has shown me that this is not an uncommon problem. Unfortunately, ...
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no burner support
most freeware cd/dvd burning software (cdxpburner,burnaware,etc) report either no support or do not recognize my laptop dvd writer. Just purchased a new laptop with this problem. It is a lenovo G530 ...
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CD/DVD burn error in ImgBurn and Nero
I am getting the errors shown below when I try to burn a CD/DVD on my DVD writer. I am seeing this error for every CD/DVD I try to burn. I am not able to write any CDs or DVDs using ImgBurn. The burn ...
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