When you burn a CD or DVD in Windows, your DVD burner usually uses the DMA (Direct Memory Access) mode. Basically, this allows you to transfer large chunks of data onto your DVD, using as little CPU memory as possible. In other words, it helps you burn your DVDs faster.
However, Windows has this weird [...]

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I don’t like to take my purchased movie DVDs with me when I travel but still love to have some of my favorite or new movies with me in case I would like to watch a movie on my notebook. I could of course burn those DVDs and take the backups with me but this is not ideal in my opinion. I do not like to carry any media with me when traveling.

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That is at least what Jennifer Pariser, the head of litigation for Sony BMG, said when questioned in court about her music piracy understanding. I think that this is one of the main reasons why the Music Industry is doing so badly. Their view collides with the demand of the consumers.

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The competition between Blue-Ray and HD-DVD seems to be ridiculous and pointless when you compare it with the plans of Mempile company. After achieving the maximum of 2 or 4 layers on present-day discs, they’re coming with a 200-layer medium called TeraDisc™. It’s those 200 virtual layers in a DVD-size medium (1,2 mm thick) that allow such a huge amount of data to be stored 3-dimensionally on a single disc. The medium contains light sensitive molecules (chromophores) capable of switching between two states thus saving digital data.

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A new version of the - in my opinion - best media player SMPlayer has been released and can be downloaded from the website of the developers at Sourceforge. SMPlayer is a Mplayer frontend that plays most video codecs out of the box which means that you do not have to install codecs to play the majority of video - and audio - formats. It does play for instance Apple Quicktime .mov videos without the need to install Quicktime at all.

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