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Blu-ray and HD DVD Burning & Playback Questions

For today’s post, we answer a question from a reader about Blu-ray burning and writing on Mac OS X computers. Pete asks:

” hi, i read your helpful comment about how you record onto your Digistor blu-ray external burner. I also have a macbook and want to  record HD media. If you would just let me know real quick

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Using Blu-Ray in Windows 7

If you’ve already jumped to Microsoft’s “the OS Vista was supposed to be” — aka Windows 7 — then you will be happy to know that our friends from Redmond have incorporated native Blu-Ray features into their newest operating system. We’re gonna give you the lowdown on using Blu-Ray technology for Windows 7.

Blu-ray Playback

A lot

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DIGISTOR 25GB BD-R Blu-ray media Burn Test

We got a 25-pack spindle of DIGISTOR’s 25GB BD-R Blu-ray media. The blank Blu-ray discs were a perfect match for our brand spanking new DIGISTOR External Blu-ray burner that we just unpacked. Here comes the inevitable burn test.

Our trusty TEST BED:

ASUS K50IJ Series laptop, 2GB RAM, 320GB HDD, Core 2 Duo Proc, Vista
For burning,

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DIGISTOR External USB Blu-ray Burner on a MacBook Pro

All you Mac lovers out there are probably getting a bit lonely out there, what with all the bad iPad press you’re getting. So we’re gonna show you some love as we test out our newly unboxed DIGISTOR Self-Powered Blu-ray Burner on a MacBook Pro.

DIGISTOR External Blu-Ray Burner on a MacBook Pro

Let’s get the

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Unboxed: DIGISTOR External Blu-ray Burner, USB 2.0, Tray load

We just un-boxed our new DIGISTOR External Blu-ray Burner. We got it in the same package that contained the 250GB Portable Hard Drive that we unboxed and tested a couple of days back.

We got one of these, and we're excited!

This is the tray-load version, and connects to your system via USB 2.0. As I’ve

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DIY “how to”: creating a Slot-load Blu-ray and DVD burners for desktop

A cursory Google search for slot-load burners for desktops, be they Blu-ray burners or DVD burners, reveals that while a lot of people are looking for these kinds of drives for their desktops, very few of them exist in the wild — or even available in the market. We here at MacPCWiz figure that just

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Panasonic, Sony promise more space per Blu-ray disc

And more good news at the start of 2010 for you Blu-ray addicts. Panasonic and Sony are working on upcoming technology that will increase the data capacity per layer of blank Blu-ray discs, currently at 25GBs, to 33.4GBs. Found this via Electronista.com:

Panasonic and Sony on Friday were revealed to have made a technology that could

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Data Security for Mobile devices

For people on the go, those who live a mobile lifestyle, portability is the name of the game. If you live a mobile lifestyle, then you think small, you think portable, you think lightweight. Unfortunately, the smaller they are, the less data they carry (relatively).

Living the Mobile Lifestyle: you portable much?

MacPCWiz now brings you

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nVidia ION allows Blu-Ray viewing on a netbook

nVidia’s ION graphics chip is looking more like a winner by the moment. We talked about the nVidia ION’s graphics capabilities at length, and what a boon they can be to netbooks. But now, David Ragones, product line manager at Nvidia claims here at a CNET.com article that nVidia ION for netbooks supports blu-ray playback.

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Buffalo busts out its USB 3.0 12x Blu-Ray Burner

Never mind that you’d have no USB 3.0 port to plug it in (it’s backward compatible to USB 2.0), never mind that no blank Blu-Ray disc can be had at 12X speed… never mind all that. Optical storage company BUFFALO still pushes out this theoretical speed demon, the BR-X1216U3. Read more from Engadget.com:

Sure, your computer

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