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Website that offers news and reviews on CD-R and DVD drives, mainly focused on hardware.

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Optical Storage News and Reviews
Tuesday, 11 January 2011 10:59 Freecom, a Mitsubishi Kagaku Media company, today unveiled the Mobile Drive Mg – an elegant mobile hard drive designed specifically for the Mac market. Encased in an ultra-lightweight and strong magnesium enclosure, the Mobile Drive Mg is an ideal match for the

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2. OSTA - Optical Storage Technology Association

OSTA is an industry group promoting use of writable optical storage technology. This is the home of the Universal Disc Format (UDF) specification and other technology references.

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Guides to Optical Storage We want to hear from you. 21 quick and easy disc-burning projects 7-2010 Make better use of your CD/DVD burner OSTA Recommends Protecting Digital Images Cupertino, CA (February 11, 2009) – When people are facing a natural disaster like Hurricane Katrina roaring
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3. Andy McFadden's CD-Recordable FAQ

The standard FAQ for CD-R and CD-RW. Besides general questions and answers, its major sections cover encoding, media, hardware, software and common problems. Updated monthly.

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CD-Recordable FAQ, including CD-R and CD-RW, updated monthly
Last-modified: 2010/01/09 Send corrections and updates to Andy McFadden. If you have a question you'd like to see answered in here, either post it to one of the comp.publish.cdrom newsgroups (if you don't have the answer), or This FAQ is updated every few months. The most current version is

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4. CD Information Center

General information source with links and a few articles about the CD and DVD industry. Includes an CD bibliography.

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The CD Information Center is an independent information source about Compact Disc manufacturing and publishing.
Welcome to The CD Information Center , a comprehensive information resource dedicated to optical media. Here you will find information about Compact Disc (CD), Digital Versatile Disc (DVD) and Blu-ray Disc (BD) in all their forms (ROM and Recordable formats). This site covers all aspects of discs,

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5. CD Media World

News and technology articles related to writable CDs. Includes a list of CD-R dye types and manufacturers, and a reference list of CD-writing software.

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6. How Stuff Works: Compact Disc

Detailed descriptions and animations explain the technology used in a compact disc.

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Before compact discs, you had to rewind and fast-forward to get to a particular bit of information. Not so with digital storage -- the CD makes pinpointing data a split-second task. Find out how CDs (and CD-ROMs, CD-Rs, CD-RWs) hold and let you retrieve information.
Search HowStuffWorks and the web Please copy/paste the following text to properly cite this HowStuffWorks article: Brain, Marshall. "How CDs Work" 01 April 2000. HowStuffWorks.com. <http://www.howstuffworks.com/cd.htm> 14 January 2011. CD/DVD Duplication Process are everywhere these days.

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7. Recording to CD: More than Meets the Ear

This article includes an description of the physical structure and encoding of data on CDs. It covers the frame and block levels including EFM, interleaving and subcode channels.

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a lot more to recording a CD than just pressing "record"! Ever wonder what really ends up on those shiny round discs? In Part I of this two-part series, you'll learn about the physical and logical workings of the medium, while being treated to a "written-in-plain-English"
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8. Dvdplusrw.org

Dedicated to the DVD+RW recordable DVD format.

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This web site is dedicated to the DVD+RW and DVD+R format, and as such it is by far the largest -independent- online source for DVD+RW information. It will provide you with lots of product information, technical stuff, downloads, promotional material, compatibility lists, media overviews and other
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9. DVD Forum

This is the primary industry association for DVD. Site resources include technology briefs, conference schedules and news archives.

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The 49th DVD Forum Steering Committee Meeting was held by Telephone Conference, on November 11, 2010 followed by letter voting. To see the resolutions, click DVD Forum 14th General Meeting will be held in Tokyo on March 3, 2011. Further details will be announced later. note that the "+RW" format,
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10. Rm.com

Safety advice for CD ROM drives that develop small cracks.

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