Published reviews of Discstation's product range - Disc-Go-Pod Plus

This is a very good review of the performance of the disc repair machine, Disc-Go-Pod Plus;

http://hardware.teamxbox.com/reviews/general/44/DiscGoPod-Plus/p4/

Disc-Go-Pod Plus Review (General)
By: César A. Berardini - "Cesar"

`I must say that the Disc-Go-Pod Plus performance is astonishing. I feel like every disc I repaired was put in a magician’s hat and a rabbit switched the discs, because every CD and DVD that I put in looked completely different after the repairing process. Believe me; you have never seen a disc repair solution like this.

Who should get this product? Everyone with a large collection of optical discs, whether those are music, data CDs, videogame, movie or file backup DVDs. Having the ability to truly repair a disc, (especially the ones that can’t be copied), could turn out to be critical, depending on the content of the disc. How much would you pay to repair a copy of Halo 2 ten years from now?

Forget about those twenty-dollar manual disc repair systems that resemble a water gun; if your budget allows you, this is the disc repair system to get.'

Movie download service available to Australian residents

Here's an update to the story I posted on Nov 7 regarding the launch of a movie download service in Australia, that allows users to legitimately `burn' downloaded movies to DVD. This effectively bridges the gap between the PC and TV in the short term, until web-enabled TVs become more prevalent.

Yahoo!7, ReelTime partner on content deal
By Staff writers, iTnews 9 February 2007 13:06 AEST

ReelTime Media and Yahoo!7 have partnered to form a TV and movie download service available to Australian residents.

Under the agreement, Yahoo!7 users can link directly to ReelTime.tv to access and download its range of major and independent studio movies and TV programs to a PC, laptop or portable device. Users of the service have the option to download to rent (DTR) and download to own (DTO) any content purchased.

ReelTime Media managing director John Karantzis said the deal would allow Yahoo!7 users access more than 1500 hours of content from providers such as Sony, MGM, Twentieth Century Fox, Universal, Dendy, Playboy TV and Hopscotch.

In November, ReelTime.tv partnered with Universal Pictures Australasia for what Reeltime claims as the first major movie DTO service in the world to include secure burn technology.

The technology works via breaking a film up into two Windows Media files and a third digital file that allows the movie to be securely and legitimately burned to DVD.

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