Technology is so confusing.

While my relatives were down, I tried to do some DVD work (I had just got my PC back from the shop) and my DVD drive gives me some Cycle Redundancy Check error.

Well I try different stuff, even reformat and reinstall my entire PC. Same thing. So I call the manufacturere and they say they need to send me a new one. So I shipped it off today, hopefully I will get the new one soon.

Isn't technology great?!

(UPDATE: I found out months later, that this error can be caused by a dirty disc, dirty lens, or simply encoding on the DVD that you are trying to read from. If I get this error now, I simply give up.)

Long time, no blog.

Well, I have been burning DVD's non-stop. I didn't realize how many home movies I have...

But, we are settling nicely into our new home. I hope to post photos soon. Maybe I will post them on my website... who knows.

Not much else is going on.

I finally feel like I am making some headway!

Well, I finally feel like I am getting something done.

Now that I have my new DVD-Burner I can start burning all the cartoons I have collected/captured. Thundercats, Gummi Bears, He-Man, Dungeon & Dragons. Even a few movies that I cannot find on DVD. Like the Ewok Adventure. Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer!

I have cleared over half of my 40G hard drive. Finally some space! Now I just have to finish transferring my LPs to CD, cataloging my books and comics, DVD's and Music.

DVD-Burner

I just have to rave. My wife is awesome.

I wanted this external firewire Double layered DVD-Burner for like $250. She said no, wait until the price comes down... so I whined and did.

Well, I found a deal for a normal DVD-burner Internal that was $75 after a rebate. When I was at worked, I called her to tell her about it, but couldn't find it...B UT I found a better one that was $72 without a rebate and she let me buy it.

WELL! IT ROCKS. It is the DW822 by BenQ. It is a DVD-RW and I found out it is upgradeable to the double-Layered Discs that are coming out. All I have to do is download the Firmware that is coming out in like September for IT!!!! AND...

It came with a program that only works with this burner that will rewrite the Open Book code at the beginning of DVD+R and DVD+RW so that really old DVD players will read it as a DVD-ROM and play them. Too good to be true, but I tried it on Dominic's DVD player (that used to be ours) and it would never play a burned CD-R disc, and it wouldn't play the DVD+R either, after I set this configuration I tried a new DVD+R disc and it fired right up!

If you are thinking about purchasing one...this is the one to get!!!!