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Topic Title says it all. Seems to me, they make USB mice and keyboards now, why not USB monitors? The graphics card would be built into the monitor, so, there's no need to constantly update your card and open up the PC. Just replace the monitor. Plus, there's no more problem of future video monitor connection types becoming a problem. Where a new kind of monitor type can't be used on your old computer, causing you to need to replace the PC. USB won't be changing or going away for some time, so, it's just as simple as plugging in a USB cable to set up a new monitor. Of course, that does mean changing the BIOS or whatever they're calling it now to support USB monitors on boot like they had to do with USB mice and keyboards. Of course, the primary reason they'll never do USB monitors is Why do what I said above when I also said that a new monitor type means replacing an entire PC? Planned obsolesense keeps steady income streams a flowing. Forcing people to replace their PC's simply because they change monitors and don't make your old style anymore is simple "good business sense."

Most likely when the 6x BD-R media were first designed, 6x was the max write rate that Blu-Ray burners could reach. So, they put 6x on the media as the maximum write speed. Then, newer drives came out that were capable of write strategies that were faster than the maximum rated on the media.

So, now we know. All missing episodes of The Enemy Of The World and all but 1 missing episode of The Web Of Fear were the recovered ones. While the recovery of any missing Doctor Who episodes is good news, I will admit I'm disappointed that nothing from my wish list above was found.

The BBC has officially confirmed that missing episodes of Doctor Who have been recovered and returned. So far, they're only claiming "a number" of the 106 missing episodes have been recovered. They found episodes of both William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton serials. There will apparently be a press conference on Thursday to announce the number of recovered episodes, the titles, and where they were found. I would have to say that all 106 episodes could not have been returned, as has been rumored. Supposedly, The Feast Steven episode was never offered to foreign markets because it was a Christmas episode and had nothing to do with the rest of The Dalek Master Plan. So, it seems unlikely it could have been recovered from a foreign market. Mission To The Unknown may be problematic, too, because as a stand alone episode, it may not have been offered or was offered with The Dalek Master Plan. And, as for the rest of the missing episodes of The Dalek Master Plan, I seem to recall that that story was offered to foreign markets but that no market bought the story. So, it seems unlikely that episodes from The Dalek Master Plan would be recovered from foreign markets. The 3 recovered episodes were found in the United Kingdom. If I could have my wish list of recovered episodes, it would be: The Tenth Planet Episode 4, the holy grail, the one every wants Mission To The Unknown The Dalek Master Plan all remaining missing episodes The Power Of The Daleks all 6 episodes The Evil Of The Daleks all 6 missing episodes The Moonbase 2 missing episodes The Wheel In Space 4 missing episodes

Sometimes, I get some really weird high rates. Like when I'm writing VIDEO_TS folders with things like .AVI files added to the root directory. When it gets to the extra files, I sometimes get things like 128x.

I can't complain about the speeds, actually. A DVD-R image writes in like 2 minutes. A DVD-9 in 4. A full BD-R in 10.

Something I've noticed about the write speeds for Building images for DVD versus Blu-Ray sized images. For instance, when I build a DVD-9 sized image, the write rate to HD is about 12x on average. When I build a BD-R sized image, the write rate to HD is about 6x. Is this expected behavior for ImgBurn?

I need some more information. What exactly did IFOEdit create? Did it create VIDEO_TS.IFO to go with VTS_01_1? Or are you just trying to play VTS_01_1.VOB or its IFO? Plus, is this a stand alone DVD player you're talking about or have you tried playing it in software on a PC?

Well, was able to mostly answer my own question. Went by Wikipedia and searched for Lightscribe to see if the technology had been discontinued. Read this in the entry: "Companies such as HP, Samsung, LaCie and LiteOn have discontinued or are fading out LightScribe drives as of June 2013 with only LG still manufacturing drives." So, that explains why I could only find LG, for the most part. The LiteOns on Amazon.com were probably older models that have been discontinued back in June.

What's up with trying to find a new internal Lightscribe DVD burner? I checked NewEgg and they have none, except for duplicators. I checked Amazon.com and all they had were LiteOns and LGs. Unfortunately, both options are non-starters. The last 2 LiteOns I had were junk. One wouldn't write DVD's at all and the other, a Blu-Ray drive, would not write DVD+R DL VIDEO_TS jobs without skips and pops and then stopped writing to BD-RE's after only 5 months. The LG is not an option because, for whatever reason, the one I tried doesn't write 8x DVD+RW correctly. It writes to discs a few times and then they're unusable. At least my LiteOn writes to them the intended multiple times. The drive also doesn't write to DVD-RW correctly. DVD-RW VIDEO_TS discs it burns aren't readable in Panasonic DVD recordables and can't be used by them until they are formatted fully in my LiteOn.

I've noticed this more often than not lately. Whenever the write rate drops to 0 while waiting for the buffers to recover from HD threshold activity, the write rate goes up to 8x max. This doesn't matter on rewritable RW media as 8x DVD+RW is the maximum rate and 8x is the max rate for DVD+R DL. But, for DVD-R rated 16x and BD-R that I have rated at more than 8x, more often than not, I've noticed, the write rate on these media only goes back up to 8x max. Is this down to the LG drive or is this ImgBurn behavior?

There will still be new series DVD's. I saw the first 4 years of the new series on the Sci-Fi Channel. After that, I got lucky in my library got in all the DVD's for all the new series, except the 4 specials that made up Tennant's final year.

Actually, I just learned there's no longer such a thing as 2Entertain. Apparently, they were swallowed up into BBC Worldwide and now BBC's home video arm directly makes the Doctor Who DVD's and has been for a year. Now that I think about it, I do believe my most recent Doctor Who DVD's don't have the 2Entertain logo that plays after the BBC logo.

2Entertain has announced that 2014 will see the last 2 classic series Doctor Who DVD releases. The Underwater Menace and The Moonbase, both having been pushed back from this year. With only a few releases left like The Tenth Planet and Terror Of The Zygons, it seems that even Mission To The Unknown won't get the animated treatment like it had been speculated. This also seems to be the end of the Special Editions, too. Which is odd. Because even though it was previously released material with new special features and new restoration processes, people were apparently willing to buy what they'd already bought before. Even I picked up a few releases like The Pirate Planet, Remembrance Of The Daleks, Resurrection Of The Daleks, Tomb Of The Cybermen, and Carnival Of Monsters. I would have thought they'd still release Special Editions because they were easy revenue streams. Go figure.

Yeah, 10 years ago, CMC made a good CD-R. I had some burned in like 2000 like were still readable this year. However, their DVD media is questionable. I've only experienced Optodisc CMC DVD-R's, but, half the time, they'd fail to finish burning or wouldn't verify afterwards. It was enough, though, to make me swear off of all CMC media. I even copied and reburned all my CMC CD-R's to Taiyo Yuden's because I don't trust them that much. In short words, I wouldn't use them, no.

It says it's the number of CD's/DVD's recorded on that drive. However, my values never change, even after I burned 2 more discs. Unless the disc is not being counted as another new disc each time because it's rewritable. IE it's the same disc just being erased and rewritten. It's apparently based on what kind of drive you have. This drive in question is a LiteOn, so, maybe it's unique to LiteOns?

I burned 2 discs in a row and it still says the same thing. That the Life count is 36 and that the other is 12 on both burns. So, now, I'm confused. I don't know what these values could possibly be.

Just now noticed something when using a drive I don't normally use for burning DVD+RW's to. This line from the log: I 13:40:05 CD/DVD Life Record Count: 36 - CD/DVD Record Count: 12 What exactly is the CD/DVD Life Record Count and the CD/DVD Record Count? Is it something that your drive has to support in order for it to be visible? Is the number of times the disc has been written to or the number of times the drive has written to any media? What's the difference between the two values? Thanks!

Even though I don't get click happy when I run any installer, I do admit to disabling my Internet connection in ZoneAlarm before running installers with OpenCandy wrapped, excuse the pun around them. That way, they can't phone home and install something I don't want by accident on my part. Plus, I always take a differential backup image in Macrium Reflect before I run any installer or updater. In case any kind of install does something like that, or just messes up the system in general.

Went through a closet of stuff to free up some storage space and came across some ancient PC tech junk I'd stored away. One of it was even in its original box. It freed some space getting rid of it. The first item, the one in its box, was an HP CD rewriter. The label on it said it was manufactured in May 2001. Its maximum CD-R write rate was 16x. As one would expect from a 2001 PC internal 5.25" drive, it connects by PATA and the old style power supply. I still have a 32 bit PC from 2009 that had 1 PATA connection on the mobo, but, it's already occupied by a much better, newer rewritable DVD drive. The other item was the much more interesting piece of PC tech history. A small footnote that deserves its place in the forgotten realms. The Castlewood Orb drive. The Orb was a 2001 2.2 GB external storage cartridge based HD drive. It connected by external SCSI. However, it was a piece of junk. The failure rate of disks was even higher than IOMega's Jaz 2, and its high rate of failure was why I tried replacing it with the Orb! Plus, if you had your dial-up modem connected, whenever the drive wrote to a disk, after the write operation, the modem would ALWAYS time out and disconnect! Needless to say, I retired this drive and the disks to the closet in a matter of months. I still had 2 dead disks, 1 disk that was labeled so its contents weren't desirable. The other 2 disks weren't labeled, but, since I don't know where I put that SCSI card I had when I got the Jaz drive, and I don't even know if it still works in modern PC's/Windows 7's library of 64 bit drives, I couldn't check the contents. So, I threw those away. The CD drive still has SOME use, albeit probably $10 worth of use. It's like new but PC's no longer support the technology required to operate it. So, I donated it to a local thrift store, the St. Vincent De Paul Store. I also am donating the Orb drive itself, even though it's only got about $10 worth of value, too, plus it probably doesn't work on modern PC's. Plus, the technology was piss poor to begin with. And, without discs, it's relatively worthless. But, without knowing what contents were on the other 2 disks to erase, I couldn't donate the disks with the drive, and so that's why I threw them away. I mean, I'm not getting any use out of the drive and I'm not getting any value for donating it, so, I might as well donate it. Who knows? Maybe someone out there with an old computer with SCSI who has some old Orb disks but not a working drive might find it. Yeah, right.

My experience with the semaphore time out period has expired error is a conflict between your drive and a controller on the motherboard. Unfortunately, this error rarely gets resolved except by actually replacing the controller in the drive or on the motherboard. This problem was fairly regular on USB optical drives and was caused by using certain ATA to USB bridges in the controller in the drive. So, the only solution was to replace the controller in the drive, which meant using a different drive as the controllers were never designed to be updated by software. There might be some solutions where a software driver could be causing the problem and updating the chipset software might work. I don't have much to offer in the way of how to do that, though. So, maybe somebody else can help. Do you get this semaphore time out when you try to burn other types of discs other than games?

AnyDVD can cause problems not just with verifying. I verified that on two different computers with different drives, with AnyDVD enabled and VIDEO_TS jobs were burnt to DVD+RW discs, the Verify would fail. But, only on DVD+RW. And it was a weird failure. It failed right away and any attempts to burn to that burned disc, even with AnyDVD disabled, would also fail right at the start of the Verify. The only solution was to fully Erase the DVD+RW. Then, burning to them was fine again.

I can't answer the first two questions, but, I can answer the last question. You will need to open the Microsoft Registry Editor. Under Computer, expand the tree for HKEY_CURRENT USER. Expand the tree for Software that will appear under HKEY_CURRENT_USER. Find the ImgBurn entry under Software. Right click on ImgBurn and choose Export. Save the file to wherever you wish. To import these saved settings, just double click on the .REG file you just saved and the settings will be imported. Do not import the Registry keys while ImgBurn is opened. Otherwise, the settings may be changed when the software is closed.

The trick is you schedule full images to run while you're asleep. So, when you get up, they're all done. And a Differential in Reflect on my system takes only 12 minutes to run on average. A small time slice price to pay for a botched installation. It would run faster if I had USB 3.0 on my PC as my external HD supports it and I backup to the external HD. Of course, backing up your system depends on various factors. Like what you store on the partition you're imaging. For instance, I moved TEMPDIR to its own partition so ImgBurn's image files won't be stored on C: with Windows and add GB's to the daily image that I don't care if they get backed up or not. Then, there's things like if you're storing your MP3's or video files on the same partition. My system has more partitions that it knows what to do with! Basically, only Windows and installed programs that can't run as standalone apps exist on my C: partition.

Oh, so THAT'S what the NoUPX version of the .EXE is!