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To celebrate the 1000th upload to the MyMyMedia users CD covers database we have released this small selection of Editors Favourites. Logon to MyMyMedia.com the CD Covers creation website today.

CD-writer.com Ltd and StorDigital Systems are proud to be supporting XFactor 2009. TalkBackThames recently came to CD-writer.com Ltd for help solving their DVD distribution requirements as they work their way through the hopefulls at BootCamp 2009.

We are very pleased to be supporting what has turned out to be such an important part of the annual TV calendar.

See more XFACTOR 2009 and discover our own very own ‘Coco’ Vicky Lloyd (face of CD-writer.com) with her band Kandy Rain.

Just as we have said previously MicroBoards offer the sort of personal service that you can normally only dream of attaining. In this post we’re looking at some of the more advanced technical features supported by the MicroBoards disc publishers.

Here we’re looking at the VideoWrite copy protection system and the merge field option in Surething (software that ships with MicroBoards)

VideoWrite is an easy to use dongle based application (you get credits on a USB key). Here’s a walk through from Ian Lawrence on the MicroBoards support team.

Using VideoWrite Copy Protection:

The VideoWrite option within PrintWrite allows you to copy protect any correctly formatted Video ISO file. This process has been added to the Burn Image project, allowing you to quickly and easily perform the needed steps to protect the video DVD content you produce using your Microboards Disc Publisher.

VideoWrite does not alter your original Video image file, but makes a protected copy of your file. While this allows you to retain the original file unchanged, it does require hard drive space on your PC. As the Burn Protected File process also takes additional hard drive space, you should plan on having at least enough additional free space for twice the size of the original file. For example, if you have a 4.35GB video ISO file you want to protect and burn, you will need an additional 8.8 GB of free hard drive space.

If the .ISO file you have selected is in the correct format for a Video image that has not been previously protected by VideoWrite and the VideoWrite USB Key is in place, the option to Copy protect the image file with VideoWrite will be available.
The available Burns Remaining on the key and the status of the ISO file will also be displayed.

Place a check in the box if you want to protect the image file. The Protection information will be displayed, showing the name of the protected file (the word ‘Protected’ will be added to the name), the file size, progress of the protection process and the Start Protection button.

Click the Start Protection button to create the protected file. The progress bar will show you how far along the protection process is. You can cancel the protection process by clicking the Cancel Protection button.

Once copy protection is complete, the File Name will change automatically to that of the protected image file, the Status will show that the selected file is protected, and the Copy Protection controls will be hidden. If the image file you originally selected is already protected, the Status will say so, and you will not need to protect the file again.

After the Volume Name and Number of Copies are entered in, click the Start button to submit the project. If you are using VideoWrite Copy Protection, you can only burn as many discs as you have Burns Remaining on your USB key.

Please note that any video DVDs protected and burned using VideoWrite protection will not be able to be duplicated, including in a Microboards duplicator. All production must be performed using the VideoWrite protection on your Microboards Disc Publisher.

Next time we’ll look at merging data into live text field on CDs and DVD in order to dynamically customise, personalise or serialise discs during production.

MicroBoards Technology manufacture some of the best systems for the in-house production of disc. Its’s easy to make a list of unique selling points that help differentiate their disc publishers and disc printers from comparative units manufactured by their competitors. Unfortunately MicroBoards has never experienced the market penetration attained by the market leaders, Primera. For this reason many uneducated customers may dismiss Microboards, purely because,

01) they haven’t heard of it

02) their friend told them a Primera Bravo was better.

As a completely impartial company, with UK stock of all lines from Primera and Microboards, we can say that the present range of MicroBoards products are excellent. Like Primera units they support both MAC and PC, but they have a host of features that mean they really lead the pack. The build quality is in another league to the competition, the throughput it often twice that of the competition, the ink costs are half that of the competition and the print quality is maybe 20% to 30% better than the competition.

Whats more, the MicrobBoards product range is distributed and supported by MicroBoards UK, and guess what, they are in the UK. The icing on the cake is the fact that the MicroBoards employees, staff and team are some of the nicest people you could ever have the fortune to work alongside. At CD-writer.com we have worked hand in had with them since they first came to market. They are both competitor and supplier and friends.

MicroBoards was and aways will be the outsider due to their late entry to the market, and true enough many of their products have been received with mixed reviews, but I can tell you today, that the present line of disc printers and publishers from MicroBoards, beat the competition hands down.

OK so a Primera Bravo is good, but the MicroBoards MX2 or PF-PRO is better.

See Microboards Disc Publishers

See Microboards Disc Printers

It’s summer time and we’ve discounted our best selling lines by 1000’s of hard to earn UK pounds. If you are in the market for a duplicator or automated printer there is simply no better time to buy that right now. Save £100’s off our standard web prices for tower copiers, bravo printers, and microboards disc publishers. These prices wont last forever and are whil stocks last only.

Leading DVD and CD production technology, brand new and fully warrantied.

Microboards CX-1 Disc Publisher – [CX1-1000] £1470 with rebate
Print Factory 3 – [PRF-3000-01] £1315 with rebate
Primera Bravo Pro AutoPrinter – [63715] £1191 lowest ever price
Primera Bravo II AutoPrinter – [62715] £878 lowest ever price
Samsung CD/RW DVD-ROM [SH-M522C/BEWN] £8.69 low price internal burner

Further offers

MF Digital PicoJet Inkjet Printer – [PJ-6000 D] £434 very limited offer
Acard CD Duplicator 7 Drive 48X CD Copier – [ACARD7CD] £260 lowest price duplicator

See all our sizzling summer savers

Over the next few weeks you can benefit from free shipping on the best selling range of MicroBoards automated disc printers and publishers. The FREESHIP offer covers, the MicroBoards MX1, MicroBoards MX2, PrintFactory Pro, PrintFactory 3, HCL High Capacity Autoloaders, including BluRay and LightScribe versions, and the entry level GX-2 automated disc publisher.

MicroBoards Technology offer industry leading technology for the automated production of CDs, DVDs and Blu-Ray.

StorDigital Systems have expended their range of card media copiers. The new devices are fully standalone and support the duplication of SD card media and USB pen drives. The units come in 7 and 11 target drive models, with larger drives due out soon.

Perfect for producing pen drives that might be used as promotional tools or for music distribution. The StorDigital card media copiers make perfect copies with a single button press.

Here are the new models:

StorDigital SDM7USB 7 Target USB copier
StorDigital SDM11USB 11 Target USB copier
StorDigital SDM7SD 7 Target SD copier
StorDigital SDM11SD 11 Target SD copier

Control 100s of duplication towers from one single source

A fast scalable, DVD/CD Duplication solution providing music studios, video production houses, and archival departments speed and flexibility.

StorDigital Systems, the nation’s leading manufacturer of CD and DVD duplicators and printers, is proud to introduce the new LinkTower X10D range of expandable duplicators. Based on StorDigital’s best selling tower duplication technology the LinkTower offers the opportunity to connect up to 100 tower duplicators together, all operated from a single source.

The StorDigital LinkTower makes investing in a DVD or CD duplication solution more cost effective than ever. By offering the opportunity to expand the duplicator customer can be sure they are investing in the a solution that can aid and sustain their growing business. Since the duplicator modules can be used individually or connected to operate from one source, the requirement for additional manpower is significantly reduced. This ensures reduced initial capital expenditure and effective control over the cost of expansion.

Experienced duplication professionals know that the path to the greatest profit is scalability and flexibility. Only by being able to rapidly meet the fluctuating demands of a seasonal market can you have the confidence to quote on large or fast turn around production jobs. StorDigital LinkTower offers you the potential to upscale your production facility quickly and easily via their seamless X10D expandable duplicator technology.

StorDigital Systems Engineer, David Caunce had this to say, ” The LinkTower is a natural progression for our tower duplicator range. A single tower duplicator might meet your production requirements today, but what about a year from now. The StorDigital LinkTower is an affordable solution that addresses many of our customer concerns re expandability. It makes it easy to step up production and throughput without increasing your labour bill “

LinkTower Duplicators can work in both standalone and link mode, meaning that that 10 devices can be quickly configured to produce 10 independent jobs of 100 or one large run of 1400. Because the LinkTower Daisy Chain Duplicator uses the same advanced duplication technology as found in the StorDigital Premium range of duplicators you can expect to get perfect DVD and CD copies on time every time. With StorDigital’s LinkTower you have unlimited production power at your finger tips.

StorDigital X10D LinkTower duplicators are available to buy now from CD-writer.com Ltd and StorDigital Systems on 0208 293 0777. Call now to register for your reseller account and start selling the UK’s favourite range of CD, DVD and Blu-Ray Duplicators.

Retail customers can get more information and buy online at www.cd-writer.com/llinktower.html

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For further information contact: Nic Ranshaw

StorDigital Systems, 15 Greenwich Center Business Park,

53 Norman Road, London, SE10 9QF

Telephone: +44 (0)208 293 0777

Fax: +44 (0)208 293 0666

e-mail: nicr@stordigital.com

www: www.stordigital.com

About StorDigital Sytems: StorDigital Systems was founded by CD-writer.com ltd in 2002. They are now a leading UK manufacturer and supplier of specialist DVD, CD and Blu-Ray duplication solutions. The range includes tower copiers, robotic duplicators and automated printers for DVD,CD, Blu-Ray and flash media. You can contact StorDigital Systems online at www.stordigital.com or by calling +44 208 293 0777.

Ref: CDW0 01/09/08

It seems we no longer need to blow our own trumpets, since our customers are happy to purse up to their own horn instruments.

We recently got the following feedback from independant video producer, web / print designer and all round creative David Bridle. You can see their company profile here.

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Thursday 5th March became a very bad day. It started off well enough, blue sky, sun and birds chirping, the usual niceties a day has before it decides to dump all over you. I got up, got ready for the day ahead knowing that I was going to London to do some filming, for an MPIUK event at Canada House, Trafalgar Sq. As I got to work everyone was in a jolly mood and so we joked and planned what we were going to do over the next few days to maximise our time while Paul was in the country. So we decided that we needed to do some video editing for his presentations.

I went to the studio and fired up the iMac with the 1TB Lacie HD attached. This is where things start going down hill, the HD would not mount, the power brick was hissing like gas coming out of a pipe and to top it all off the disk would not spin. This has all of my video projects for the last three years on it. It has the latest products that we have developed, our new Be Inspired series, which is rolling out in the next week or two. Everything! So now in my mind I have our latest products burnt off onto DVDs, so all I need to do is duplicate them before Sunday when Paul leaves for Australia and takes them with him.

So I get straight onto the internet to find a DVD duplicating system. I search through all sorts of sites and find CD-WRITER.COM. I look at there site, I find a 3 DVD copier, I talk with Paul about it and place my order. I proceeded to call them up and find out if they could get the burner to me for Friday or Saturday at the latest. At this point I didn’t elaborate on the problem I was facing and simply asked the question. However, I called back to ask if they could get it to me for Saturday and I expanded on why it was so urgent. The lovely lady at the other end was extremely helpful, she took onboard my problem and got on to helping me out. Let me point out that the reason they couldn’t do the Friday delivery was because they needed to assemble the burner. They didn’t have any pre-assembled. At this point the lady informed me that they could get the burner to me for Saturday but it will cost £40 extra for delivery on the weekend. Ok, so I agreed, however she said I will see if I can get this to you for Friday morning.

Now I am traveling down to London to do the filming. I receive an email informing me that the burner is now despatched and is shipping to me. Excellent, thinking that it will get to me Saturday. So the rest of the day goes by and I am happy that at least one on of my problems will be solved. The LaCie HD on the other hand is another issue.

I awoke this morning to find another email telling me that the burner is now out for delivery and will be delivered at the latest of 3pm. I am now extremely pleased, the burner has moved forward in time and will have ample time to get the DVDs burnt fantastic. I get to work just after 9am, we are all talking away in the kitchen when an Interlink delivery van pulls up. Oh yes the DVD burner has arrived. I am ecstatic, I have even more time and this is good.

Now I look at this whole episode and wonder why a company has gone out of its way to get that burner to me. They didn’t have to, they could have settled for the extra cash for delivery on the Saturday. No they didn’t do that, they went for the harder option of getting this burner assembled quicker, and sending out on that days shipment. Why? becasue they want the business, they want the repeat business, they care about their customers so much that they GOT IT DONE!

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See more of David Bridles Blog insightfull here.

Capture – Edit – Stream – Relive your Event

“My client requires quality prints and speed… to deliver their DVD and CD
media. ” Philippe Meurrens- Brussels – Belgium

Because the image is an effective tool to strengthen exchanges with
customers, suppliers, partners, employees or associates , MediaEvent
manufactures your movies on any media like CD-ROM, DVD and BluRay, internet, podcasts, streaming and integration on digital information displays. Mediaevent offers the design of all these means of communications and integrate it in allexisting diffusion-media on the market.

An event is unique.? Thanks to MediaEvent the memory of the event remains unique … forever.

The event can also be recorded on an interactive DVD and delivered in a
beautiful box customized to the event ..

Mediaevent duplicates itselfs his DVD’s and CD’s, with a tower made of
duplicators with components supplied by CD-writer.com 7 Pioneers recorders,1 Acard control unit, 1 Box and power supply . You can, if you want purchase assembled duplication towers at CD-writer.com

The tower can duplicate 7 DVD every 6 min. The media (CD or DVD) are printed in Full Color up to 4800 dpi with a printing robot MicroBoards PF Pro printer.

This robot allows me, with easy, to print up to 100 DVD or CD in a time. The
advantage of PF Pro Printer MicroBoards is not only reliability but also it is a
very economical printer. Having for each color a separate cartridge (Cyan 28ml -Magenta 28 ml Yellow 28 ml – Black 56 ml) I print between 1000 and 1500 DVDs with the cartridges. The printing cost varies between 6 eurocents and 15 eurocents a DVD. (Depending on the colors used, the percentage of printsurface and print quality) loading the DVD goes smoothly. The “Gillotin” takes each DVD one by one, and load it in the high quality HP-printer. 30 to 60 seconds later the media is put out at the front of the printer. ( the 100 medias are harvested there )

“Which is great with this printer is that I put it all started and … 1 hour and half later my 100 DVD’s are ready to be delivered to my clients. That’s profitability!”

I am using Photoshop® to make my lay-outs. The print driver works fine ( on a Mac 10.5.6 system ) and is very easy to use. It is a pity that the interface for Mac doesn’t includes color settings, which is included in operating systems for PC’s. I have the choice between Graphic quality and photo quality. In these choices you can choose Best and High DPI. I use high quality DVD like Tayo Yuden. And then using “Glossy-DVDs” the impressions are “more pro”. Amazing!

Why a Microboards PF Pro Printer ?

For several years I printed my DVDs and CDs with a printer Canon Pixma 4500. This printer prints at 4800 DPI and works with 4 different color cartridges. I was in search of a robot-printer that could give me the same quality of printing.

The team of professionals from CD-writer.com helped me to choose this DVD-CD printer. They advised me according to my criteria of requirements, print speed, quality, reliability and economics, the robot Printing MicroBoards PF Pro.

If you are looking for a DVD/CD printer with high-quality, economic prints, there is one model, the MicroBoards PF Pro-printer and I can advise you to purchased them at CD-writer.com ( professional- competent – price – pro advice). The purchase goes very fast. Make your order at CD-writer.com, pay your invoice and 3 to 4 days later you can enjoy your Microboards PF Pro printer.