Hi everyone, Today, we will see how well a SmartBuy DVD+R DL disc burn in the Optiarc AD-7561A drive. This unit supports burning these discs at a speed of 2.4x and 4x. This post will focus on a disc burned at 4x. Burning the disc seem to have gone well: While in the very first image I realized it doesn’t show the burning speed, it was actually burning at 2.4x. Same as the last image, since the drive burns in…
Hi everyone, Today, We’ll see the SmartBuy DVD+R DL 8.5GB 50-disc spindle. SmartBuy is a subsidiary of Ritek Corporation. These discs can hold up to 8.5GB of data and can be burned at up to 8x. These have a logo top: On the data side, they have a dark purple color: The Media Code of these discs is RITEK-S04-66: In some of my next few posts, we’ll see how these discs burn and scan on some of my drives. Look…
Hi everyone, The past few days, I brought the following products: I purchased the new PlexDisc CD-R Digital Audio discs that they mention are the best to store music. I’ll be reviewing it against the regular PlexDisc CD-R to see if they are really different, or are just the same but with the CD-R DA flag in them. Also, I’ll try them on my CD players to see if they do the initial seek faster. The other products I got…
Hi everyone, Today, I got the new Game Builder Garage game for the Nintendo Switch, thanks to Amazon’s Prime Release Day Delivery. The box art is very yellowish in color. The same goes in the inside, where we also see the game cart. This is the image that pops in the Nintendo Switch when the game cart is inserted: Here goes another game to play later. I’ve been playing Ring Fit Adventure lately to keep myself exercised. You can get…
Hi everyone, Today, we will be seeing the SmartBuy BD-R 25GB 50Pk Logo Top. These discs should be able to be burned at up to 6x. SmartBuy is a subsidiary of Ritek. These discs have a blue Logo Top: On the data side, they have a gold color: A few years ago, I recall that some gold-colored discs became corrupted due to corrosion. Since these discs are gold-colored too, I’ll be checking them after a while to make sure its…
Some photos I took of a cardinal on May 10, 2021: Photos taken on a Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra with the firmware ending in AUB5. Post Views: 0
Hi everyone, Today is the second Tuesday of June 2021. This week, we got 4 movies on DVD. Let’s see them below: Movies added DVD Assault on VA-33 City Of Lies Flashback Timecrafters: The Treasure of Pirate’s Cove Movies that can no longer be reserved DVD Distorted Mission Possible Monster Trucks Ocean’s 8 Ouija Séance: The Final Game Out of the Shadows Redbad Saf3 Scooby Doo and the Gourmet Ghost SuperFly The Watcher In The Woods Blu-Ray Ocean’s 8 SuperFly…
Hi everyone, I’m a user of the Windows 10 WSL feature, where I run the Ubuntu distribution and always install the latest versions. I like to keep my packages up to date. Unfortunately, the latest Ubuntu release, 21.04 was not installed correctly and whenever I tried to update the system packages, it would error out when setting up systemd. The solution to this seem to be a quick one. Turns out, the file libsystemd-shared-247.so was there, in the /usr/lib/systemd folder:…
Hi everyone, I’m now at my 3rd LG WH14NS40 Blu-Ray drive. The first one had its Blu-Ray laser die and the second one began having issues reading Blu-Ray discs. The 3rd one reads them faster. But what if I could have fixed the 2nd drive? That’s what we will be looking here. This drive is not one of my favorite writers. It is not a good writer. Most of the discs I burn with it ends up having the so…
Hi everyone, Yesterday I was in the kitchen, looked through the window and noticed this squirrel that somehow seem to be looking at me. Of course I took the chance to take some photos of it. Here are the results: Photos taken with a Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra running the firmware ending in AUDD. What do you think of these shots? Post Views: 2