Extender for Microsoft Media PC

MC Extender

A new dawn is upon us and its looks like a generic black box. The black box in question is an MC Extender, Media Center Extender, MCExtender or MC Xtender and it’s going to infiltrate your home and take over your life. Over the coming year we will find that TVs, DVD players, games consoles, Cable Boxes, Fridges and a host of other consumer products will begin to intergrate MC Extender functionality.

Thats’s great, but what does it mean?

By operating as an MCExtender for example, a DVD player will be able to interface your TV with your PC. This means you will be able to navigate, broadvision style with a host of subscription and non subscription internet services, in addition to organising and viewing all the media content hosted on your PC. Expect services to evolve fast into areas that we’ve seen become favourites on the web, including; chat, shopping, and community features.

There are already a host of sites looking at supporting the industry and market place with one of our favourites being the aptly named, MCExtender.com

Bravo Refills

Bravo Inks

Whilst at CD-writer.com we can’t encourage the use of Primera Compatible Inks or Bravo Ink Refill kits, since their use will result in the product warranty being voided, we do recognise that the Primera Ink Refill Kits from Burton Ink can offer great savings. The Bravo Ink Refill kits and Compatible Primera Inks Cartridges from Burton Ink can offer big savings. What you gains you make with one hand be prepared to loose with another.

Epson Disc Producer

After much anticipation, the Epson Disc Producer has finally arrived!
Boasting a built-in 6-color inkjet printer and utilizing Epson’s MicroPiezo® technology, the Epson Disc Producer allows for rich, crisp, full colour printing.

Epson Disc Producer

Its 100 disc capacity and AcuGripâ„¢ robotic arm are nestled within a compact dust-proof casing, making it a good choice for home & business users alike.
But have Epson left it too late? With firmly established duplication systems from manufacturers like Primera, Microboards & MFDigital already on the market, each with years of experience behind them, it seems hard to believe Epson can bring anything radically different to the duplication market.

Keep checking the cd-writer blog for a full-review and see how the Epson Disc Publisher fairs when the CD-Writer.com team put the machine through it’s paces.

CD Printer – New Automated DVD CD Printer from StorDigital

Fast automated inkjet printer

Here’s the official press release:

Fast, economical and automatic CD and DVD printing
StorDigital’s DP50 disc printer is easy to use and reliable

New from StorDigital the DP50 DVD/CD Printer offers out-of-the-box automated printing for in-house CD and DVD production.

With its capable 50 disc capacity the StorDigital DP50 DVD/CD Printer offers out-of-the-box printing of 100’s of discs per day. The first automated printer from StorDigital will prove to be the new benchmark for in-house disc printing solutions. Using the industry standard HP print engine and a patent-pending disc loading system, the DP50 offers support for artwork created on a range of applications meaning that the DP50 is the most flexible solution on the market.

The DP50 offers fast full colour hi-resolution printing, allowing customers to produce discs costing from just a few pence to print. Using its own intuitive disc labeling software the StorDigital DP50 CD and DVD printer can even produce glossy, water resistant prints, when used with WaterShield discs from Taiyo Yuden or Dri-Gloss discs from CD-writer.com.

Nic Ranshaw (MD of CD-writer.com and CEO of StorDigital Systems) had this to say; “Over the last 7 years we have helped many 1000’s of our customers enter and develop their businesses within the CD and DVD production marketplace. We feel that the DP50 fills a gap in the market for a well designed and robust automated solution, that is cheap to run and easy to maintain.” He added, “The StorDigital DP50’s simple design, robust build and low ink costs will all be very attractive to customers. This is the perfect time to upgrade or invest in a new disc printing solution”.

The StorDigital DP50 DVD/CD Printer will be available to trade customers and end users from CD-writer.com Ltd and their partners. To register for a CD-writer.com trade account log on to http://reseller.cd-writer.com.

Retail customers can get more information and buy online CD Printer

Vicky Lloyd – photo shoot for CD-writer.com

Vicky lloyd

See more from the Vicky Lloyd Photo Shoot

August is never a very busy month for retail, let alone a niche area like DVD and CD duplication systems. So it might be considered time to get your house in order. Whilst going through some old files we found the reminance of a Vicky Lloyd photo shoot we did. Vicky offered her services to us privately and without charge and we used Vicky in a number of our ads and on the front cover of ProBurner magazine. On the day she was absolutely fantastic.

Vicky Lloyd also helped us out when we exhibited at the Broadcast Production Show. See some shots of CD-writer.com and our duplication systems at the BroadCast Production show.

Vicky is a very intelligent girl who has achieved a great deal in a short amount of time without having to sacrifice her morals. All at CD-writer.com Ltd wish her the very best and continued success in her career.

See the Vicky Lloyd homepage

Book Vicky Lloyd via Samantha Bond Model Agency

Digital Camera Flash Memory Back-Up on the move

The XS-Drive – Drive Smart 2300 is perfect for photographers and holiday makers. Now there is no need to buy expensive memory cards at the airport. Simply backup up a range of flash media cards onto this easy to use totally portable hard drive. The Drive Smart 2300 Digital Camera Back-Up device i sperfect for all digital camera and mp3 player users.

  • Back up portable device compatible with all types of memory cards and very compact design.
  • Copy digital photos from your memory cards to the internal HDD via a single button operation.
  • Internal 2.5″ Hard disk built-in from 40 up to 120GB.
  • Green backlight OLED colour Display to display control status
  • Includes built-in internal rechargeable battery (2 hours of operation) and a carry bag.
  • Compatible Fast Connection USB 2.0 (+ USB 1.1) to access files on a computer.

Get the Picture – Get Drive Smart 2300

THERMAL CD PRINTER – UPRINT, I PRINT, WE ALL PRINT TOGETHER

Strapped to the back of our last far east import came these little creatures. Strikingly similar to the Primera Z1 thermal CD printer, the UPRINT CD DVD Disc Printer offers amazing value. Offering high quality direct to disc thermal printing in up to 4 zones on the disc, the UPRINT thermal CD printer will allow you to quickly and easily add professional style text and line art labelling to your silver or white top discs.

At CD-writer.com we have customer that use the Primera Z1 to print jobs of up to 400 discs and make a good profit. While neither the UPRINT thermal CD printer nor the Primera Z1 are designed for this kind of volume it oes demonstrate the effectiveness of this entry level CD printing solution.

So if you want to buy an entry level CD printer, for low volume production, that offers water resistant direct to disc thermal printing, you will find NO better option than the Uprint thermal CD printer.