Recent content by Phil K

The Benq is the maker, but normally, I'd be an "If it aint broke don't fix it" but theres extras available for the Benq that isnt for the Philips, and the Benq firmware is apparently so much better than the Philips (and more frequent) I'm tempted. But as I once had a nasty experience with...

I bought a new 8x dvd writer, a Toshiba. Writing fine straight away. My mate bought my old one, a Sony DRU-500A, which was an excellent writer for me. It fitted fine, made sure aspi layer 4.60 was on, put on Nero (the latest) and Clone DVD on too. Problem is, it reads, but will not write. The...

Just got a load of Simpsons to put on a dvd. They're avi's, so where do i start ? Nero wont allow them, and NTI - I jsu dont know how to switch the frigging thing to DVD mode ! I also have Record Now ! :)

Can you do episodic DVD's with this ? The last I heard CloneDVD wouldn't do them. But I hear this has now changed. :confused:

A DVD+R that I believed showed my sony 500 could not burn +r's I now believe just wasnt finalised due to a problem on my comp when it was burning - so is there a way I can actually finalise it and get it running ? It got to 98%.

For the first time, I decided to use some DVD+R's I bought at Aldi, after using DVD-R by Ritek. Only the upgraded Sony 500 (formerly Sony DRU10A) just refuses to recognize the disks. It only (according to Nero) is capable of -R's. Anyone have this bother ? :mad:

I was under the impression that Instant Copy would do the shrinking of the dvd for you. Not for me it doesnt. I have always used DVD2One, but at the minute the bastard thing has reneged on me and is not shrinking the program. So I am stuck. I am baffled by Mad Guy's one click thing, the Instant...

My friends girlfriend has bought that smashing computer deal at Aldi's - the Medion for £850. And while she's delighted with the software, past experience has told her to backup what she has. And also a good learning curve on her new DVD writer. So how can she go about backing up data to a 4.7...

Its weird. All of a sudden after some excellent writing for me, my Lite-on 48x has started buggering up some disks. When the thing written is looked at, there seems to be gaps of no writing, and some of the rings of written stuff ar, well, not smooth is about the best I can think of putting it...

Reason being, Microsoft dont do it anymore, and my boot up and close down times are ludicrous. (Nearly 2 mins boot up - more than 4 close down) I downloaded it I thought from some German site, but when I run it, it just keeps on going. For example - I set it away at 11:00 this morning...

I am going to buy a digital camera, and quite fancy the Nikon Coolpix 3100, if I dont win on e-bay for another type (not tell you lot which - you'd bid against me for spite ! :D ) but one thing I noticed is this thing about batteries. Rechargeable NiMH is the desired battery type apparently...

I am having a few probs with Photoshop. Wouldn't open, so I takes it off, now it won't re-install. The attachment is the error I get, anyone shed any light ?

Working beautifully at first, but Incredimail has decided not to like it anymore, and when i fiddled with it, (using dvdrbase.com) it worked in sending, but my own address that I sent it to, "didnt like recipient" so that failed. Anyone else having bother or just moi ? ;)

This is the thing. I have this dvd set, and I want to back it up, and not play the originals. Or at least only occasionally. But I want to take off all the bumf from both disk 1 and 2 and bung both the first part and 2nd of the extended thing together on one DVD. I have already gone down the...

I'm just getting the "30 days up" activate, mate pop-up. And while I quite like the fact that roboform pops up without me hunting for the prog, I am not too keen on shelling out cash when its in short enough supply as is ! :rolleyes: So is there a free prog that does the same ? I.E - when you...