V is for Vista
It's 45° and partly sunny! Perfect weather for a radio show. I've been getting emails from Vista users. I would love to hear from those users on the show today. Call in. Tell us all about your Vista life so far.
Cheers,
JG
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Friday, February 09, 2007
My father is a lawyer who gives seminars on estate planning and living trusts. He had a video professionally made a few years ago of him giving his presentation. I helped him purchase a DVD Duplicator so he could make copies of the DVD for clients.
I decided on the Aleratec DVD CD Copy Cruiser Pro. I chose it for price ($299 from MicroCenter Mall) and because it had LightScribe capabilities.
LightScribe allows you to put text, artwork, and photos directly onto the disc surface without a label. The discs are more expensive than a regular blank DVD. I paid $1 per disc (also from MicroCenter).
The LightScribe-able side of the disc has a matte finish.
The data side of the disc looks like a regular disc.
The Aleratec Copy Cruiser Pro is a DVD/CD burner or a DVD/CD player. It is a stand-alone unit if all you are doing is duplicating a CD or DVD -- i.e. you don't need to hook it up to your computer if you are just making a copy of a disc. It comes with a USB cable, power cable, Nero burning software, and LightScribe drivers for Win. 98 or newer, and 1 blank DVD.
After installing the drivers and the updated version of Nero I created a simple text only label. I put the blank disc, lightscribe surface down, in the bottom tray, went to to FILE -> PRINT LIGHTSCRIBE LABEL -> selected BEST QUALITY -> left clicked PRINT. It took about 20(!) minutes to print the label on the disc.
The finished product looked nice.
After labeling a few discs, I switched the unit to copy mode and duplicated, from a master, a few dvd's. You burn the blanks in the bottom dirve, the same used for LightScribing, but you flip the dvd data side down. It says it burns at 8X speed. A one hour dvd took about ten minutes to burn.
Conclusions: This duplicator would have cost considerably more just 3 years ago. I priced them then at about $700. The discs, although expensive compared to a standard blank DVD, have come down in price too. I like the fact that you can duplicate cd's and dvd's without a computer. The Nero label making program has lots of great potential for custom graphics, imported pictures, logo's, etc... I just did basic text for the first go 'round. Oh yeah, I ordered it on line at MicroCenter's website and picked it up at their Sharonville store saving the UPS shipping charges. Still had to pay tax.
Links:
http://www.aleratec.com
http://www.lightscribe.com
http://www.microcenter.com
http://www.nero.com
JG
I decided on the Aleratec DVD CD Copy Cruiser Pro. I chose it for price ($299 from MicroCenter Mall) and because it had LightScribe capabilities.
LightScribe allows you to put text, artwork, and photos directly onto the disc surface without a label. The discs are more expensive than a regular blank DVD. I paid $1 per disc (also from MicroCenter).
The LightScribe-able side of the disc has a matte finish.
The data side of the disc looks like a regular disc.
The Aleratec Copy Cruiser Pro is a DVD/CD burner or a DVD/CD player. It is a stand-alone unit if all you are doing is duplicating a CD or DVD -- i.e. you don't need to hook it up to your computer if you are just making a copy of a disc. It comes with a USB cable, power cable, Nero burning software, and LightScribe drivers for Win. 98 or newer, and 1 blank DVD.
After installing the drivers and the updated version of Nero I created a simple text only label. I put the blank disc, lightscribe surface down, in the bottom tray, went to to FILE -> PRINT LIGHTSCRIBE LABEL -> selected BEST QUALITY -> left clicked PRINT. It took about 20(!) minutes to print the label on the disc.
The finished product looked nice.
After labeling a few discs, I switched the unit to copy mode and duplicated, from a master, a few dvd's. You burn the blanks in the bottom dirve, the same used for LightScribing, but you flip the dvd data side down. It says it burns at 8X speed. A one hour dvd took about ten minutes to burn.
Conclusions: This duplicator would have cost considerably more just 3 years ago. I priced them then at about $700. The discs, although expensive compared to a standard blank DVD, have come down in price too. I like the fact that you can duplicate cd's and dvd's without a computer. The Nero label making program has lots of great potential for custom graphics, imported pictures, logo's, etc... I just did basic text for the first go 'round. Oh yeah, I ordered it on line at MicroCenter's website and picked it up at their Sharonville store saving the UPS shipping charges. Still had to pay tax.
Links:
http://www.aleratec.com
http://www.lightscribe.com
http://www.microcenter.com
http://www.nero.com
JG
Tuesday, February 06, 2007
Tom and I braved the Great Blizzard of 2007 to do the show today. Thanks to http://www.weather.com for radar.
Click here http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15656246/ if you want to hear the new Vista startup sound.
JG
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