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First Android powered car from China
China Car Times is reporting that the Chinese company SAIC is launching Roewe 350 on April 23rd and Roewe 350 DVD/GPS system is actually running on Google’s Android system. The 350 will be able to get all the latest real … Continue reading
Disc that could store 2000 DVDs
You might have read my earlier blog post about GE offering an optical disc that could store 500 GB data. Researchers at a University in Melbourne, Australia have come up with a “five dimensional” disc capable of storing 2000 times … Continue reading
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Tagged Australia, DVD, five dimension, Korea, Melbourne, Nano structures, Samsung
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Optical disc offers 500GB storage
A disc that can store 500 gigabytes (GB) of data, equivalent to 100 DVDs, has been unveiled by General Electric. The micro-holographic disc is the same size as existing DVD discs. Micro-holographic discs can store more data than DVDs or … Continue reading
Ubuntu – System hangs if a CD or DVD is inserted in the drive
I have a weird problem in my desktop. If I have Brasero CD/DVD burner application installed (which is the default option in Ubuntu), my system hangs whenever I insert a CD or DVD. It doesn’t matter what type. I tried … Continue reading
Hybrid Blu-Ray / DVD Disc Announced
Infinity Storage Media has released the first Blu-Ray/DVD hybrid disc in Japan. According to My Digital Life, The new technology, which embeds both Blu-ray and DVD compatible contents on the same disc is believed to be able to smoothen the … Continue reading
HD VMD – Another high def player
I somehow missed this news. I accidentally came across this news in PC World today. The news was 3 months old. It was talking about a new technology, namely HD VMD (Versatile Multilayer Disc) which was supposed to be cheaper … Continue reading
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Tagged Blu Ray, DVD, HD DVD, HD VMD, PC World, Tech Consumer, Toshiba HD A2
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Toshiba HD-A2 HD DVD Player worked after firmware upgrade
My brother gifted me a Toshiba HD-A2 HD DVD Player. I didn’t have any HD movie at home to test and the movie rental stores near my house didn’t have any HD DVD movie for rent. I played the regular … Continue reading