Author Archives: Paul

What the heck is DotMonster.ca?

With a name like that, it’s no surprise that at Moss Media Lab, we get questions about DotMonster.  Our clients can’t believe it’s true—but it is.

DotMonster is an high-calibre, low-cost, web hosting service offered by Moss Media Lab.  Just google ‘web hosting, Halifax,’ and start shopping.  You’ll see that DotMonster is an easy, affordable, and [...]

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DVD Duplication and Replication

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Our clients often ask about the processes needed to make high-quality DVD copies and they’re interested in knowing about the differences between DVD and CD Duplication and Replication.  With that knowledge and our guidance, they can make the most informed decision.

CD or DVD Duplication or DVD burning is the most common term.  It means your [...]

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The cost of publishing on Blu-ray Disc has just dropped

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The price of releasing on Blu-ray Disc has just now dropped by up to 75%! If the high cost of AACS copy protection has been holding back you or your customers away from publishing your content on BD, then you will be really interested in the info below.AACS fees have come down for all content [...]

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Pioneer BDR-S03J 8x Blu-ray Burner Announced

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Pioneer will release the BDR-S03J, the company’s first 8x Blu-ray disc burner in Japan in January, with worldwide shipments to follow.

The SATA drive offers reading and writing of CD/DVD and Blu-ray media.

It features a dustproof structure that keeps dust away from the internal of the drive’s case, as well as Pioneer’s Disc-Resonance Stabiliser technology. This [...]

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4.8Gbps USB 3.0 Specification Now Available

The USB 3.0 Promoter Group announced the completion of the USB 3.0 specification, the technical map for device manufacturers to deliver SuperSpeed USB technology to the market.

SuperSpeed USB brings significant power and performance enhancements to the popular USB standard while offering backward compatibility with USB-enabled PCs and peripheral devices currently in use. SuperSpeed USB delivers [...]

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Western Digital Speeds Up Passport Drives With FireWire 800

WD today added a high-speed FireWire 800 interface to its My Passport Studio portable drive.

With FireWire 800/400 and USB interfaces, the new My Passport Studio
portable drives offer up to 500 GB of storage capacity, are formatted
for Mac computersand weigh less than 7 ounces.

A built-in, illuminated capacity gauge tells users how much space is
available in the [...]

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Avid Announces Sale of PCTV Product Line to Hauppauge

Avid Technology has signed a definitive agreement to sell its Pinnacle
PCTV product line and related assets to Hauppauge Digital, Inc..

The deal is expected to close before the end of 2008; financial terms were not

disclosed.

“Millions of media enthusiasts worldwide use our award-winning line of Pinnacle

consumer products to create and share digital content,” said Gary Greenfield, CEO

and [...]

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Sony debuts 8X BWU-300S Blu-ray burner with free movie

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8X Blu-ray Disc™
Recordable/Rewritable Drive
Satisfy your burning desires and record up to four hours of 1080 Full HD video with this internal Blu-ray Disc™ recordable/rewritable drive. Also includes Men in Black on Blu-ray Disc.

Let one drive manage all of your burning needs. The BWU-300S Blu-ray Disc™ recordable/rewritable drive can record up to four hours of 1080 [...]

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New Intel 6-core Xeon Processors For High-end Servers

Intel launched seven 45 nanometer (nm)-manufactured Intel Xeon Processor 7400 Series products, offering up to six processing cores per chip and 16MB of shared cache memory.

Platforms based on these processors can scale up to 16 processor “sockets” to deliver servers with up to 96 processing cores inside, offering tremendous scalability, ample computing threads and extensive [...]

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IEEE 1394 Approves Faster FireWire

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IEEE has approved IEEE 1394 “Standard for High Performance Serial Bus,” offering speeds up to 3.2 Gigabit/second.

Commercially known under the brand names of FireWire (Apple’s name) and
i.LINK (Sony’s name), the IEEE 1394 standard provides specifications
for a high-speed serial bus which supports both asynchronous and
isochronous communication and integrates well with most IEEE standard
32-bit and 64-bit parallel [...]

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