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CD Burners with Built in Compression
EconolineCrush writes "Bored of new CD-R/RW drives that only seem to decrease burn times by a few seconds over their predecessors? Check out this review of Plextor's PlexWriter Premium over at The Tech Report. With an advertised CD-R burn speed of 52X, the PlexWriter is certainly fast, but its ability to encrypt the contents of burned data CDs and squeeze nearly a Gigabyte of data onto a 700MB disc is what sets it apart from other high-speed burners."
Not only can we be pirates, but now we can be terrorists, all in one easy cd-burning step.
43% more pornographic goodness on every disc!
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Lesson for other meta-suckers: Don't believe the hype!
"I wonder how the compressed data is stored."
It's a lossy method similar to your brain. RTFA
Just how many CD-ROM burners does this one count for?
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
"squeeze nearly a Gigabyte of data onto a 700MB disc"
RIAA are gonna love this... "We found 5,000 burners - well actually we only found one, but it had 52x, compression and everything!"
>>>I just picked up a Pioneer A06 and it's pretty damn sexy,
Does it do a striptease when its done burning?
No, it's a SCSI device, but he was brainwashed by Steve Jobs years ago, when he tried to get everyone to pronounce it "sexy" instead of "scuzzy".
I imagine the fact that virtually no other CD drives can read the discs would add to the "security" of the proprietary encryption.
I can barely fit all the file data/info I want onto a 700mb CD label. How am I expected to cram 50% more.... :)
The font is so small now I need to ask for help....
Right. I have better things to do with my time than QA media.
Yeah like sitting on your fat ass and bitching about a problem that you could easily solve if you took your head out of your ass.