Defender of Your Discs Against Inaccessible Villains

CD Playright is new to the infinadyne Product family. 

The Trio Plus package comes with one 2 oz. bottle of Quick Shield ND, one 2oz bottle the Quick Shield, a 100 pack of Quick Wipes, a CD/DVD Repair Kit which contains enough materials to repair 12 discs, and a Quick Shield Cloth.

Quick Shield and Quick Shield ND use thin file technology to protect your CD's and DVD's. Gently glide you hand across an unprotected disc, the do the same to a disc treated with Quick Shield and Quick Shield ND, feel the difference?  Using these to products protects your discs by creating a thin film barrier.   

Also included is the CD/DVD Repair Kit.  Use this product when you have a disc that skips or has read errors.  There are three easy steps to using the repair kit:

1. Identify the scratch

2. Apply a small amount of CD Playwright Polish to the area and rub in

3. Apply CD/DVD Finish

These products have been used by a bunch of Video rental stores around the country, including, JC Flicks (Arizona, Colorado, Illinois & Indiana), some BlockBuster Stores, West Wood Video, and many more. 

Take Windows XP Further ...

iCorrect is an easy-to-use color correction program for all your digital pictures. Whether they come from a digital camera, a scanner, a picture CD, or online photo-sharing, iCorrect automatically Makes the Color Right™.

Whether you're new to digital photography or a seasoned veteran, iCorrect will help you get the most out of all your digital pictures. iCorrect brings proven color technology to all levels of digital photo enthusiasts and gives every picture the color of life. Uniquely designed to integrate with Windows XP imaging tools, iCorrect takes Windows XP further.

Do More

Make the color right in seconds! In the past, the only way to make color corrections was to rely on frustrating, time-consuming color editing tools like curves, sliders, or variations. With iCorrect, you can make the color right by simply clicking on the picture. iCorrect:

iCorrect is an easy-to-use color correction program for all your digital pictures. Whether they come from a digital camera, a scanner, a picture CD, or an online photo-sharing site, iCorrect automatically Makes the Color Right™. Even if you don’t have any experience with photo editing, with iCorrect’s revolutionary technology, your digital pictures will look like they came from a professional. Based on Pictographics' highly-acclaimed iCorrect Professional, iCorrect brings proven color correction technology to amateur photographers and digital imaging enthusiasts.

In the past, the only way to make color corrections was to rely on frustrating color editing tools like curves, sliders, or variations. With iCorrect, you can make the color right by simply clicking on the picture. iCorrect:

• Automatically makes the darks darker and whites whiter by setting new black point and new white point.
• Automatically adjusts brightness and contrast.
• Automatically removes unwanted color cast.
• Automatically corrects common reference colors including Neutrals, Sky Blue, Foliage Green, Skin Tones.

CD Structure

CD Structure checks the contents of a CD or DVD against standards to insure successful duplication.  Checks for standards compliance on any PC with a CD or DVD reader.

CD mastering software often doesn’t meet strict ISO standards.  Without compliance checking, a CD or DVD that doesn’t meet standards can result in scheduling delays, customer returns and discs that will not work on end user systems.

If you are in the CD duplication industry and  would like to test CD Structure, please email info@infinadyne.com

Recently we did a survey about the evaluation versions of CD Rx Data Retriever and CD/DVD Diagnostic. The incentive to take the survey was you were entered into a drawing to win a FREE digital camera. 

I contacted the first two drawn names, one responded, "Wow! Cool, I won" and I sent him his FREE digital camera..  The second one never responded.  I sent 3 emails and nothing.  Is everyone so paranoid about bad emails that they just delete EVERYTHING?  There is no catch, we pay shipping.  There is no handling fee. 

So, we have this extra camera.  We have decided to do another drawing.  So now you will have a chance to win the digital camera pictured above. 

In order to be entered in the drawing, please send an email to info@infinadyne.com telling us about your success with CD-R Diagnostic, CD/DVD Diagnostic, CD Rx Data Retriever or CD/DVD Inspector.  The first 25 emails will be entered into the drawing.  The winner will be notified via email on May 9th.  This offer is only good to US residents.

CD Rx Data Retriever is now available through TigerDirect both online and in their catalog. CD Rx Data Retriever is a great product for home users who are looking to recover one or two discs that have minimal errors.

Here is what TigerDirect has to say about CD Rx Data Retriever 

CD Rx Data Retriever: CD Safety Net Provides Peace of Mind
You store your most important information on CDs to make sure it lasts.
Yet a simple scratch can undo all your work... What to do? From the leader
in CD Data Recovery Software, CD Rx Data Retriever is specifically designed
to simply and effectively retrieve lost data from CD’s in the home, home office
and small business environment. Why be sorry? Get yours today!

If you would like to purchase a copy of CD Rx Data Retriever on a CD please follow the link below:

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-Details.asp?sku=A53-1002

A new, free product from infinadyne, will determine the REAL speed of your drive.  See how your drive does, look at other drives at:

http://www.infinadyne.com/cgi-bin/drivedisplay.cgi        

CD and DVD writers are rated and compared using the “x” factor which measures their speed in writing to a disc.  This factor is based on one “x” being the speed at which an audio CD is played for CD devices, with a similar but faster data transfer rate for DVD devices.  Unfortunately for the buyer, this is not a particularly useful measurement, nor is it an indication of how fast the device actually is.

CD devices have three basic techniques of spinning the disc.

• CLV: This is the original technique for accessing CD discs and stands for Constant Linear Velocity.  This varies the rotation of the disc so that the laser is moving over the disc surface at the same linear speed at the inside and the outside.  Since the outside part of the disc is “longer” than the inner part, the disc is spun slower when accessing the outer part than at the inside part. 
• CAV:  In the past few years CAV (Constant Angular Velocity) devices have been introduced where the disc is spun at a constant speed.  Most recent devices use this for reading and some variation for writing. 
• Partial CAV (P-CAV) or Zoned CAV:  These are variations where the rotation of the disc changes in relation to the position of the laser but less so than the original full CLV technique.  The speed changes in a stepwise fashion rather than continuously over the surface of the disc.

With CD writers having claimed speeds from 40x to 52x, we are seeing issues arising about speed.  Yes, a writer advertised as 52x really does only write at 52x near the outer edge of the disc.  But, there are other important considerations as well.

There are two different modes that are used for writing to CDs and DVDs:

• Continuous mode is used by “mastering” programs and goes by a number of terms like “Disc at Once”, “Track at Once, ” etc. 
• Incremental writing is used with packet writing and is exclusively used for technologies like DVD+RW and Mount Rainier. 

Today, CD writer manufacturer’s speed rating is based only on the writer’s performance in continuous mode.  DVD writers differ slightly in that DVD+RW only supports incremental writing, but DVD+RW writing speeds are not advertised as heavily as those for CD writing.

So, how fast does your writer write packets?  This may not be important if you’re writing audio discs.  Music CDs are written exclusively in continuous mode.  However, when using programs like DirectCD, InCD, DLA, or AccuBurn-R, the packet writing speed is important; perhaps more so than the continuous writing speed. 

With our AccuBurn-R software, many users have reported significantly different timings when writing discs.  They question why AccuBurn-R doesn’t write at 40x when they have a 40x CD writer.  The simple answer is the 40x CD writer isn’t writing at 40x all of the time, and may not write packets at anywhere near 40x.  A more complete answer requires testing the specific writer.

The question regarding the speed of a CD device can be partially answered by using freeware programs.  These programs test the read performance of a drive only, and not the write performance in an accurate manner.  They also do not test anything except “continuous” mode writing.

infinadyne is offering the free TimeWrite program to assist our customers and optical media users in general interested in the “real” performance of their CD writer.  This program tests your CD writer in three different modes: variable packet writing, fixed packet writing and track-at-once continuous writing.  Included is an “upload” capability allowing you to send your testing results to infinadyne.  These results will be posted on our web server anonymously to be shared with other users.  We encourage everyone to post their results of each of the three tests so that your writer can be compared to others.

After we have received results, a future article will appear in the infinadyne newsletter describing the overall results from this and summarizing the best and worst writer performance that has been reported.

Product Comparison Chart

The new Product Comparison Chart is a BIG hit!  Instead of wondering which infinadyne product has the features you need, you can look to this chart and find out! 

Soon, we will be adding links to the chart so you can get the definition to MD5 Hash or ISRC and know why these features are important. 

CD Rx Data Retriever   CD/DVD Diagnostic   CD/DVD Inspector Recovers data from CD’s       Intensive UDF Scan       Sector Copy Feature       Image Preview       Test Readability of a disc       Recovers data from DVD’s       Extracts Audio       Disc Memory       Expanded Retry Capabilities       Display CD Text, ISRC and RID       Printable Disc report       Disc space usage map       MD5 Hash Capabilities       Detects and recovers from discs with multiple file systems       Hashkeeper compatible       Search using scan specification syntax       Data pane       Raw sector search       Enhanced control over data recovery process       CD+G Support       Extensive reporting

The new version of CD-R Diagnostic, CD/DVD Diagnostic is now available at download.com.  Go to http://download.com.com/3000-2086-10197496.html?tag=lst-0-1 and leave your comments about the program!