Fearing for her health, Conger decided to empty her savings and travel to England for the disc replacement procedure.
Mendes says he enlisted the help of his son to find DJs for the disc and hopes the remixes will reach out to an audience who wouldn't otherwise hear his music.
The carrier is based on the specifications for the digital video disc, the home-movie format introduced last spring.
The Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) is responsible for promoting and developing business opportunities for Blu-ray Disc - the next-generation optical disc format for storing high-definition movies, games, photos and other digital content.
It will then self-destruct not in flames, its inventors hasten to add, but because contact with the air eventually renders its surface opaque, making it impossible for the laser in a disc player to read the data beneath.
Warner Brothers exclusive backing of the Blu-Ray high-definition DVD format has not only warmed the hearts of Sony investors, it's good news for the companies that produce the expensive disc-making machines.
The lead time for publishing a disc, however, was so long that the CD content ceased to be news and resided more in the realm of reference material.
This higher rate is consistent with historical rates paid for the inclusion of Dolby disc playback software.
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It would coincide with a disc for the singer being laid in a new Music Walk of Fame in Camden Town.
The Norwich museum hopes to acquire the disc for its collection.
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Indie rockers Alt-J are also up for the contemporary song prize, for the track Fitzpleasure, while their debut disc An Awesome Wave is shortlisted for best album.
The black and white disc distinguishes day from night for the user automatically, so there is no possibility of confusion.
The disc can be played for free for 48 hours, but after that the customer must pay an additional fee each time the disc is played.
The two-disc set available for purchase also includes a digital copy of the film and will be enabled with UltraViolet, a new way to collect, access and enjoy movies.
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Tyson Chandler missed his ninth straight game for the Knicks with a bulging disc.
The company's tiny Mac Mini, for the record, has been disc drive-free since last year.
There is also bonus historical content for both shows included on the disc and with the season pass.
For now there is no way to tell, except to look for warps or blobs in the disc caused by planets hiding in it.
It will be interesting to see if NF can recover by purchasing predominantly cable shows in their streaming catalog and improving, for the time being, the disc catalog.
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Founded in 2003 and funded by angel investors, the company pioneered disc-based continuous data protection technology for the small and medium enterprise market.
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Her own Cleveland High School helped out by setting up an account for the school's management of financial donations -- for disc purchases, packing supplies, and shipping costs.
That security could one day make SD cards as common a medium for distributing digital content as the compact disc is today.
The quest for a Digital Video Disc (DVD) drive that can record movies and computer files has turned into an ugly street-fight over standards.
The recording quickly became the benchmark for this opera on disc.
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However, HDTVs will become more prevalent, high-definition titles will continue to roll out in both formats, and the prices for high-definition disc technologies will fall to a point where they can compete with standard-definition DVD as a replacement device.
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For higher resolution content it is more convenient to run to the store and get a disc than wait hours for a content download.
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When Sony insisted that its single-sided disc was superior for personal computers, Matsushita came up with a single-sided, dual-layered disc that the Toshiba consortium immediately adopted for computer use. (Matsushita had been working on its own DVD format before joining forces with Toshiba.) At the Berlin Electronics Show last month, executives from Sony and Philips confirmed that they had resumed talks aborted earlier with the Toshiba alliance.
Though even the nearest star is too far away for a planet drifting across its disc to be seen, astronomers can detect the drop in starlight caused by the obstruction.
The players' improved audio and video performance is also attributed to Pioneer's unique construction techniques that have been honed for more than 30 years in the optical disc manufacturing business.
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Writers are adamant that they be better compensated for content on DVD, looking to receive what amounts to about eight cents for each disc sold, rather than the current four cents.
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