A guest article by by Jennifer Huang
Bluray discs are not that strong as it is claimed. Bluray has a deadly innate defect where data resides very close to the surface of Blu-ray disc. The top of the substrate is just 0.1m
m beneath the cover layer surface, which means the substrate itself is 1.1mm thick. A slight crack as thin as a piece of hair could be destructive, let alone a finger print which would totally be a disaster.
I appreciate and even applaud for the supreme audio/video quality presenting by Bluray discs, but I just cannot afford such a fragile technology.
Even there are companies producing hard coating for Bluray disc, such as TDK, Sony and Panasonic. It seemed that you have to pay extra money for this remedial and awkward technology. Hard coating technology had been applied a couple of years ago, when Bluray was not as popular as today. I bought the Bluray discs at the end of 2009, when all Bluray discs were supposed to be scratch-resistant but my Bluray discs are so vulnerable to scratches.
Another proof that Bluray disc is easy to break with careless scratches is from Netfilx customers, which is the largest DVD and Bluray renting service by mailing. Below is one of charges against the easy-to- break Bluray from a Netflix member.
At that time… 75% of blu-ray discs I received had the crack. Right now I’d saw about 50% of the blu-ray discs I get are cracked. It seems to be less so for newer releases, but not always.
Just in the past month or so, it seems every Blu-Ray disc Netflix sends me has PERMANENT PHYSICAL scratches on the “scratch proof” coating. Since the actual data is right underneath this, this of course causes playback to freeze and the disc to be unwatchable.”
On some titles, I am on my fifth attempt to get a playable title from Netflix, yet I continue to receive Blu-Ray discs with these strange scratches that render the disc unplayable.
Netflix has started to raise the rates on Blu-ray plans by $1 per membership which apparently means that Netflicks is trying to pass the cost of frequent disk replacement over to the consumers.
Here I am not trying to attack the cutting edge Blu technology, but I am trying to say the truth and the real story happened to Bluray owners like me.
I myself have bought 30 plus Bluray Discs from Amazon since 2009, but one third of them do not work properly! Some of them freeze from time to time while playing and some others do not play at all! They cost hundreds of bucks! Sounds like a wallet vampire!
Frustration, however, does not help a thing when data lost due to tiny scratches. Bluray disc’s easy-to-break squandered trust and expectation of so many customers like me. And we cannot put our costly movie or data at the mercy of delicate BluRay thing.
To protect data on the costly Bluray discs, hard coating is just a remedial technology demanding extra payment. The best way to guard Bluray movie or data against accidental damage is to backup onto computer.
How, you may wonder, can I backup a Bluray disc?
Well, there are Bluray Rippers of various brands available in the market. You can get one with any search engine you prefer. The most powerful feature of a Bluray Ripper is to help you to make a full Bluray disc copy to your computer without any quality loss. Even if your Bluray disk damaged you can still enjoy the movie with Power DVD after you created ISO images with the files you have backed up on your computer.
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Pictures say it all. This is how Kevin’s new venture – wefollow, the user powered twitter directory- looks in Firefox 3.0
…and in IE 6.
Daniel from Daily Blog Tips has recently launched Online Profits – his latest venture which promises to teach you A-Z about online businesses. It is touted as the Most Complete Internet Marketing and Online Business Training Program.
Since it’s the first time it would be conducted, it is difficult to pass any judgment about the efficacy of this program but given the impressive line-up of mentors this program for sure looks promising. Acc to Daniel, online profits is a conglomerate of experts from their respective fields who will be teaching you the ins-and-outs about internet and related businesses. Personally, out of 10 there are 5 known faces among the mentors.
This six month long program is open for new members till Jan,16th only and comes with a price tag of $48/month. Also, it comes with a money back guarantee whereby if you choose to leave the program within the first 30 days you would be issued a full refund- no question asked. Here is the complete list of programs they promise to teach.
Module 1: Introduction and Business Principles
Module 2: Domain Names
Module 3: Setting Up Your Website
Module 4: WordPress
Module 5: Web Design for Entrepreneurs
Module 6: Business Models
Module 7: Choosing Your Niche
Module 8: Blogs
Module 9: Other Types of Websites
Module 10: Web Content and Copywriting
Module 11: Basic SEO
Module 12: Advanced SEO
Module 13: Generating Traffic
Module 14: Social Media
Module 15: Web Metrics
Module 16: Selling Advertising
Module 17: Email Marketing
Module 18: Affiliate Marketing
Module 19: PPC (Pay-per-Click)
Module 20: Landing Pages
Module 21: Selling Your Products
Check out the complete details @ OnlineProfits.com
Indian parliament has passed a bill on 23/Dec that is going to make cyber laws more tough and is going to arm the cyber cops with more power. Here is what TOI has to say:
Transmitting material containing sexually explicit acts in electronic form would be punishable by imprisonment of upto five years along with a fine of upto Rs 10 lakh.
For those indulging in cyber terrorism, the new legislation provides for stiff penalty of life imprisonment. The bill also says that dishonestly receiving stolen computer resource, identity theft, cheating by personation by using computer resource and violation of privacy will result in imprisonment upto three years apart from fine between Rs 1 lakh to Rs 10 lakh.
Given the rapid rise of incidents of cyber crime in India, I certainly welcome this move. The only thing to be seen from the Indian cyber cops is the enforcement. Also, I wish that they do proper investigations in any case. Unfortunate incidents like these bring more fear than fearlessness in citizens.
*1 million = 10 lakh ; *1$ = ~ Rs 50
