The Century Disc

by Carl Glassford

The Archival Century Disc Introduces Carl Glassford’s Digital Time Capsule.

Case Color

Black White Clear (sort of)

Case Color

Black White Clear (sort of)

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by Carl Glassford

What does the Recording Surface of the Archival Century Disc Look Like?

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While I was at it, I took digital photographs of the recording surface of the Archival Century Discs as well.

Then, this evening, just after work, I logged onto my twitter account and received a direct message from someone who said “Cool Product” along with a link to the Archival Century Disc Review which now on the new site which used to be CDFreaks.com.

I clicked on the link, not knowing what it was, then ended up on error page. So, I went back to the post and tried the link again. It was only partially right so I erased part of the link and found the post I think the micro blogger was referring to, which was our review by MegaDETH on the new myce.com website.

Apparantly, CDFreaks.com has upgraded to myce.com (I’m assuming it means My Consumer Electronics) since they are into reviewing and discussing so much more than just optical media these days.

So, now my link to what was once CDFreaks.com, is myce.com beta version. Hey, at least they included all of the hard work they did in thoroughly testing the Archival Century Discs, both the cds and the dvds.
(Which we greatly appreciate, in case we haven’t thanked them enough?)

All of that to say, one of the comments on the review was if the OP could show them some pictures of the recording surface of the discs. That was only ten months ago, but better late than never, I suppose.

So, for anyone else who has asked or wondered what the recording surface of the Archival Century Discs look like, here they are.

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As you can see, they look almost just like any other ordinary CD or DVD product. The difference is that they have a revolutionary Hard Coat Protection like the Blu-ray discs and a nice AZO Blue (cd) and AZO Purple (dvd) glow to them.

I have rambled on long enough for more than a post, I will see you again soon.

One of our longtime customers, Videographer and Producer Bill Wagy of Sarasota, Florida gave us a glowing testimonial on the only DVD he uses, the Archival Century Disc. Bill does video production for local famous events like the Sarasota Opera House, the Sarasota Film Festival and so many other events. Bill was the chief videographer at Sarasota’s Local News channel SNN6 and produced all of their special interest pieces as well as their sports clips and news reels.

When it comes to the elite getting married in our area, you can bet Bill Wagy is one of the first people they try to hire (if he’s available). I’m sure Bill Wagy has a laundry lists of accomplishments I am unaware of, so all I can say is that Bill is a super guy and we appreciate this testimonial (without compensation, mind you) and we appreciate his business.

I scratched a Century Disc DVD-R seven ( 7 ) times with a razor knife.

Then, I played it on my DVD player. It played flawlessly. It has a resin-based scratch resistant recording surface (SRS Technology) that protects your recordings from fingerprint smudges, scratches, abrasions, and other elements that could easily render a disc useless.

After playing the disc in the DVD player, I tested it on my laptop using VSO Inspector. I first ran the ‘Surface Test’ which showed absolutely no flaws, errors, or problems. Immediately after the Surface Scan Test, I ran the ‘File Test.’

Again, no errors, no problems. The software didn’t even detect the scratches. My disc drive didn’t skip a beat.

Check out the report and screen shots at
http://rmgproducts.com/store/Scratched_CenturyDisc_Results.html

We recently joined an Affiliate Network mainly to push the Awesome Century Disc. We decided to go with the PepperJAM Network due to their ease-of-use Web 2.0 interface, their attraction to top-level affiliate marketers and a whole lot of other reasons.

When we first started, it took us a few weeks to get past the ‘Learning Curve’ and not only learn how their interface works, but to learn that there are a whole lot of things we still need to learn. At least we are willing to learn.

Which only means that we still have a lot to do, a lot of changes and additions, and this is like anything else in life. Depending on what you put into it, will determine what you can expect to get out of it.

The first major holdup we ran into was getting their sales tracking code to interface with our ShopSite Shopping Cart.

We were having problems with the Pixel Integration. First we tried to implement the code ourselves in the back office of ShopSite. It wasn’t tracking correctly. Then, we called our ISP. The ISP put us in direct contact with one of the founders of ShopSite who referred us to Michael. It’s not that they did not want to handle this in-house, because the people at ShopSite are great to work with. But, this just happened to be one of those perplexing problems that ShopSite had not run into before and it would probably have taken them longer to get back to us then the solution they gave us.

For some reason, our integration with PJN was a little different than other integrations they had encountered. So, Gary, a really nice guy, sent us to Michael Masin, who got us up and running in about 20 – 30 minutes.

Michael wrote us a script that didn’t alter the PJN pixel code but incorporated it smoothly. A simple solution but, not simple to someone who has not worked online in over seven years now (and really didn’t have time to figure this one out).

If you have a ShopSite problem or would like a new template created for your ShopSite shopping cart interface, contact Michael Masin through his development website @ www.ssdev.us.

Not only will Michael treat you right, his honesty, integrity, and work ethics in the way he does business is well worth the price. Which by the way, his prices are probably the most reasonable I’ve seen in months and highly recommend Michael Masin to anyone.

I just met him last month during this situation so I am not touting his services because he is an old pal or anything of that nature. He is a ‘find’ in this industry and we look forward to working with him for our new templates (he writes the code, your artist has to do the design work) for our RMGProducts.com Shopsite shopping cart.

I asked Michael if he would mind sending us a little background info? This is what he sent me. I hope this will help someone find him if they need his specialty services. We are glad we found him. Thanks Michael!

I’m a ShopSite Certified Developer. I build and maintain ShopSite stores, custom templates, Order and Shipping APIs, and programs for processing XML, importing/exporting data, etc. I work with end-users, end-user’s designers and other ShopSite providers on any size projects from a whole store to a small template change.

We just setup a page on youtube with our new videos of the Century Disc. You can check them out at www.youtube.com/centurydisc . We are in the process of setting up the new Century Disc website and hope it will be complete next week. At least the first edition. From there we can always tweak it and work toward improvements.

In the meantime, check out the videos on youtube and visit our current site at rmgproducts.com