{"id":4235,"date":"2013-04-12T11:22:50","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T01:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=4235"},"modified":"2013-04-12T11:22:50","modified_gmt":"2013-04-12T01:22:50","slug":"m-disc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=4235","title":{"rendered":"M-Disc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/m-disc.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/m-disc.jpg\" alt=\"M-Disc logo\" width=\"112\" height=\"140\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4236\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;ve replaced the aging Blu-ray drive in my computer with a shiny new LG one. Amongst other things, this one burns Blu-ray discs rather than merely reading them. And, I see from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lg.com\/au\/burners-drives\/lg-BH14NS40-burner-drive\">LG website<\/a>, it also supports the new <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blu-ray_Disc#BDXL\" title=\"Wikipedia\">128GB BDXL format<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But on the front was something I&#8217;d never heard of: M-Disc. A little googling around revealed that this is a new write-once recordable DVD technology that involves making actual pits in the recordable material <\/p>\n<div name=\"divHrefB\" style=\"height: 0px;width: 0px;overflow:hidden;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/2pharmaceuticals.com\/medicine\/buy-viagra-no-prescription\/index.html\">Buy Viagra Without Prescription<\/a><\/div>\n<p> , rather than simply changing the reflectivity of dies. The advantage is longevity. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mdisc.com\/what-is-mdisc\/\" title=\"M-Disc website\">They say<\/a> that these are good for a thousand years and impervious to UV, light and temperature (within reason I imagine). They are 4.7GB capacity.<\/p>\n<p>It seems that you need a special drive to burn them, but once burnt they are compatible with all DVD drives.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/M-Disc#The_M-DISC\">Wikipedia says<\/a> that a Blu-ray version is on the way.<\/p>\n<p>I see that the M-Disc people are selling blank discs from their website. Surprisingly, and pleasingly, they are not insanely expensive: $30 for a pack of ten. Pretty good value if they really are good for a thousand years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve replaced the aging Blu-ray drive in my computer with a shiny new LG one. Amongst other things, this one burns Blu-ray discs rather than merely reading them. And, I see from the LG website, it also supports the new &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=4235\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4235"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4235"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4239,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4235\/revisions\/4239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}