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CD and DVD Drives
Compact Discs and Digital Video Discs are forms of optical data storage. Questions about CD or DVD drives and CDs or DVDs themselves belong here.
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What is the preferred method to remove a disc from an optical drive that fails to eject the disc?
If you are referring to a CD drive or a DVD drive, the preferred method is to use a paperclip. I typically use the large paperclip, straighten it out. In the front of the drive look closely for a tiny pin hole. Push the paperclip into the hole and the drive will open.
What is the difference between a DVDplusR and a DVDdashR?
There is no physical difference between a DVD+R (DVD plus R) and a DVD-R (DVD dash R), but there are technical differences between the two formats. However, almost all new DVD writers can record on both formats, so the differences are not an issue for most people.
The DVD-R is approved by the standards group 'DVD Forum' while the DVD+R is supported by the 'DVD+RW Alliance'.
The main functional differences between DVD-R and DVD+R are:
1) the DVD recorder's built-in defects management
2) the way the recorders format and rewrite DVDs
3) the price
More specifically:
DVD+R can instantly eject. It can partially record on television and partially on a PC. It has background formatting where you can be recording on the formatted part while it is still formatting the rest of the DVD. DVD+R has the ability to edit filenames, playlist, and movie and song titles.
DVD-R has to be formatted before you can record on it. Formatting has to be completed before the DVD-R will eject.
A CD is a way to store data. So if a virus has been written on the CD, then it can.
this is an example of new technology phasing out the old. Such can be said when CD's took away cassetes or even the combustion engine taking the place of steam engines. That's an obvious answer though, I wonder what you ment by "what is this an example of?"
If a had drive is in master-configuration is it the first device?
no, the BIOS is what chooses the first Boot device. YOU can change the first boot device by altering the BIOS.
if however, you are talking about 1st, 2nd hard drive etc, then yes.
What is a b-side track on an album?
The term B-side comes from the time of the vinyl record.
The vinyl record had two sides, usually called A and B. The first half of the album would be the A-side, the second half the B-side. So, an album B-side would simply be a track from the second half of the album.
However, the term is most used about singles, for instance the B-side to "Hand In Glove" by The Smiths being "Handsome Devil", seeing as it's on the B-side of the single. The B-side is often less hooky, and will not be as marketed as the A-side. A common expression used about good B-sides is that they have been "buried".
It is still common to refer to a song not being the first track on a single, or a remix of this, as a B-side.
"DVD-ROM" stands for "Digital-Video-Disk Read-Only-Memory." DVDs have been, from the start, meant to store video. Their data is stored and read digitally, thus the Digital video disk part. Both DVDs and and CDs are called ROM storage devices because information cannot be written to them without a CD/DVD burner (As opposed to storage devices like flash drives and Hard drives, where every time you save a file you write information on to their data storage bank). Thus they are defined as "Read Only."
