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Category Archive: DVD and CD Writing

These articles relate to CD and DVD burners and media.

CD/DVD Firmware

A consistent problem that we’re having at Refresh is customers purchasing DVD discs and then returning them as being ‘faulty’ because they refuse to work correctly on their machines. Once they come back in to store we then run a couple of tests and they check out as being absolutely fine meaning that quite often …

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BluRay and HD DVD

High Definition seems to be the current buzzword in the technology sector; we have had high definition ready TV’s on the market for some time now and now not only do we have a choice of one high definition playback format to choose from but two. To be honest the whole affair is very much …

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DVD-R or DVD+R

We still get people coming to our trade counter on a daily basis to pick up DVD media for their machines but when asked whether they are after DVD-R or DVD+R a puzzled expression shoots across their face. It was for this reason that I thought it would be nice to recap on the different …

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All about DVD media

Although I’d expect the majority of my readers to know exactly what an DVD disc is, it seems that far too many people have not taken the plunge to purchase a DVD player for their computer even though you can pick up a drive for around £40 or so. DVD technology has been around in …

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Glossary of Terms

A Apple An American computer technology corporation. Introduced the LaserWriter printer, the first laser printer to be offered at a reasonable price.   B Banding The presence of extraneous lines in a printed page. Black The absence of reflected light; the color that is produced when an object absorbs all wavelengths from the light source. …

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