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Paramount wants you to replace your DVDs with Blu-ray, and they are giving you $10 each to prove it

by Jodie Andrefski on Aug 27, 2008 at 07:20 PM

Trying to lure in customers to replace their DVDs or HD DVDs with Blu-rays, Paramount is offering ten bucks per title to do just that. Although Paramount and Dreamwork titles are involved in the offer, it isn’t good for just any Paramount movie. According to HighDefDigest, the promotion will start… Continue Reading »

Pioneer takes the leap to a 500GB disc

by Jodie Andrefski on Aug 8, 2008 at 10:35 AM

Not even a month ago, Pioneer had announced that they had developed a 16 layer disk with 400 gigabytes of data storage. Totally amazing, right? Well, apparently those engineers at Pioneer don’t like to sit on their haunches, because they’ve just announced the development of a 500GB disk that includes… Continue Reading »

100 year flash memory chip developed

by Jodie Andrefski on Jul 16, 2008 at 05:09 PM

Widely used in devices like the iPhone, mini notebooks, digital cameras, Flash-based SSD hard disk drives and more, flash memory chips usually have a lifetime of about ten years. This is even being optimistic. When you are using applications that need a lot of repeat writing and rewriting however, this… Continue Reading »

Samsung announces their hybrid hard drive lineup

by XXDustin Brewer on Oct 22, 2006 at 07:50 PM

Samsung’s hybrid hard drives as most of you know, are a mix between flash memory which has faster read/write speeds then traditional hard drives and regular hard drives. They are being added as a buffer to replace the previous 2MB of cache that most of today’s drives have. The new… Continue Reading »

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