Hi everyone, Today, we will be looking at the PlexDisc DVD+R 100pk spindle I got on December 2020. These discs are manufactured by Optodisc Taiwan. These discs can be burned at up to 16x but some recorders may offer speeds higher than this. This spindle contains 100 discs: They are logo top branded. The bottom side has a purple color, as expected on Recordable DVD media: In the inner ring, they have an Optodisc identifier: In my next post, we’ll…
Hi everyone, Today, I’m pleased to announce the first version of my HEIC To JPG Converter tool. This is a simple tool that will convert your HEIC images and photos to the more common and supported JPEG format. In today’s world, newer phones can take advantage of the HEIC image codec that will save you space, theatrically, but it’s also true that JPEG is still the dominant format whereas HEIC still have limited support. This is why I wrote this…
Hi everyone, Today is the last Tuesday of May 2021. This week, we got 4 movies on DVD and 1 on Blu-Ray and 4K UHD. Let’s see them below: Movies added DVD American Fighter Chaos Walking Hunted (2021) The Rookies Blu-Ray Chaos Walking 4K UHD Chaos Walking Also, on Friday, we got Raya and the Last Dragon on DVD and Blu-Ray. Movies that can no longer be reserved DVD American Animals Book Club (2018) Damascus Cover Deadpool 2 Freedom Fighters:…
Hi everyone, Today, we will be looking at Project Highrise: Architect’s Edition for the Nintendo Switch. I got this game because I loved playing The Tower SP back on the days of the Gameboy Advance: Then came the Nintendo DS and it got The Tower DS, but only in Japan. Coming forward to the present day, we got Project Highrise, which was released for several platforms. Project Highrise is basically an adaption of the original SimTower game, of which both…
Hi everyone, On Friday, May 21, 2021, Nintendo released Miitopia for the Nintendo Switch. This is a remaster of the original Miitopia for the Nintendo 3DS released back in 2017. Honestly, I never played Miitopia on the 3DS, so I hope to play this game and experience it myself. This is why I pre-ordered it some time ago and finally got it on Friday. The box presents us with different Mii characters in different situations. The back of the box…
Hi everyone, Today is the third Tuesday of May 2021. This week, we got 5 movies on DVD and 1 on Blu-Ray. Let’s see them below: Movies added DVD Above Suspicion Minari Son (2021) The Father Tom & Jerry Blu-Ray Tom & Jerry Movies that can no longer be reserved DVD Action Point Blackwater Bleeding Steel Demons First Reformed Fogg: Diary of a Sociopath Gehenna: Where Death Lives God’s Not Dead: A Light in Darkness Jason Bourne Show Dogs Storks…
Hi everyone, Today is the second Tuesday of May 2021. This week, we got 6 movies on DVD and 1 on Blu-Ray. Let’s see them below: Movies added DVD Equal Standard Land Send It! The Marksman The Mauritanian The Vault Blu-Ray The Marksman Back Again DVD A Quiet Place Life of the Party Blu-Ray A Quiet Place Life of the Party 4K UHD A Quiet Place Movies that can no longer be reserved DVD 2036 Origin Unknown Avengers: Infinity War…
Hi everyone, Today, we’ll see how well my 3 optical IDE slim drives handles the PlexDisc 700MB CD-R discs. The units we’ll be testing against this disc are the Optiarc AD-7561A, Teach DW-224E-C, and the Toshiba SD-R6252. Toshiba SD-R6252 Let’s start with the Toshiba SD-R6252. You may recall this drive failed to burn successfully the Verbatim CD-RW some time ago. The drive detects the disc just fine and gives us a burning speed of up to 16x: Starting to burn…
Hi everyone, today I have released PAQCompress v0.5.12: This release adds paq8px v203. You can download this new version on GitHub by clicking here. Enjoy! Post Views: 8
Hi everyone, Today, we’ll see the PlexDisc CD-R 100pk I got from Amazon some time ago: These discs are manufactured by Optodisc Taiwan, and holds 700MB of data or 80 minutes of audio. They can be burned at up to 52x, altough nowadays most writers burn them at up to 48x. The discs have a logo top: Here is how a single disc looks: It has a light green color on the data side. The discs seem to be well…