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, 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, In this post, We’ll be looking at some Slim IDE drives and how well they work with a Verbatim CD-RW disc. The drives we will be seeing are the Optiarc AD-7561A, Teach DW-224E-C, and the Toshiba SD-R6252. I started first with the Toshiba SD-R6252 which is the drive with the oldest manufacturing date: This drive was manufactured on July 2004. In my tests, it seems to read DVDs fine, but it fails to read CD-Rs, often with an…
Hi everyone, Today, I’ll present you the Oakcastle CD100 Portable CD Player. Yes, a CD Player, and this one has Bluetooth in it. As you may know, nowadays people use streaming services to listen to music, which includes services with lossless audio quality. However, some people also prefer to buy CDs and listen to them, as some may argue that CDs offer better quality than lossless streaming services. Others buy them to collect them. I’m one of the few who…
Hi everyone, Today, I will be showing you the Kolude KD-k1 All-In-One keyboard. It is a USB-C keyboard that also acts as a USB hub, having 4 USB 3 ports, SD and Micro SD Card reader, Power Delivery, and an HDMI port. The keyboard contains the entire layout as well as the numeric pad keys, which is great for those who prefer to use them. It is made of aluminum and the keys have a great typing feeling. It also…
On the past days, I wrote about having purchased an used spindle of 10 Verbatim BDXL discs. I mentioned that I had also ordered the same item again, but the used condition mentioned was “Like New”. Today, we’ll see my experience this time, which may or may not surprise you. The first thing is I received this item on an “Amazon Renewed” bag. The sticker is different from the “Amazon Inspected” one from my previous order: Visually looking, we can…
Hi everyone, Yesterday afternoon, I received the “Used – Good” Verbatim BDXL discs that I purchased last week. Today, we’ll see exactly what these discs really mean and if they are really used. First, we see the item arrived on a bag. Visually inspecting it from the bag it seems the packaging itself looks good. Indeed, it all looks good, except it isn’t really wrapped like new items are, so the spindle was actually opened already. The spindle package looks…
On the past few days, I ordered several quantities of BDXL discs to backup my recorded videos from the past years. These projects have varying sizes and some goes up to 1TB. This means I need several of these BDXL discs to back them up. When looking at the BDXL media on Amazon, I noticed they can be purchased “Used” straight from the Amazon Warehouse seller. A spindle of 10 discs cost $41.88, while the Used condition was at $36.85….
Hi everyone, Today, I’ll show you the Avantree DG80 Bluetooth USB Audio Transmitter: This is a Bluetooth adapter that works as a PC audio card. It transmits audio via Bluetooth using the SBC, FastStream, aptX, or aptX Low Latency codec, depending on which codecc your headphone or adapter supports. Having the aptX codec provides us with a better audio experience. The aptX Low Latency codec allows us to watch movies and videos without any audio delay. Most Bluetooth receivers today…
Hi everyone Yesterday, I published the version 1.9 of Embalses de Puerto Rico, which adds support for Dark Mode: Now, the app will use Dark mode if your device is set to that mode. If you want to force the app to use Light or Dark mode, regardless of the system setting, you can do that by using the all-new Theme setting: This will override the system setting unless the System default option is selected. Light mode is unmodified for…