For 2022, it has been both a return to business and a transition to a new way of doing business. In the sense, we hope everyone continues to thrive and grow in the New Year. Vinpower would like to thank everyone that helped contribute to our efforts in 2022 and those who have and continue to support us throughout the 20+ years we’ve been in business. Without the support of our customers, vendors, and friends, we would never have achieved the good fortunes we’ve experienced up to this point. Thank you for everything and we wish everyone a joyous and prosperous New Year, in which we will all have good fortunes in 2023.

Reminder, Vinpower will be exhibiting at CES in Las Vegas, NV Jan 5 – 8, 2023 in Central Hall, Booth # 15593. If you’re attending, we hope you visit with us.

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Chinese New Year is a major holiday around the world, but especially in China and Taiwan, which both shut down production in factories for prolonged periods so that workers can spend this time with their family. Normally, we’re accustomed to the Chinese New Year taking place in February, but this year, it starts on January 22, 2023. That means if you want anything to start production and/or ship from China and Taiwan before the New Year, you need to have your orders in by the 1st week of January at the latest.

Vinpower is happy to help anyone that needs to place an order for storage related products and is pressed against the deadline. Contact us today to make sure your product isn’t delayed due to the rapidly approaching Chinese New Year holiday.

Vinpower will be exhibiting at CES in Las Vegas, NV Jan. 5 – 8, 2023 in the Central Hall, booth # 15593. Look forward to visiting with anyone that plans to attend.

To learn more about this item, or any of Vinpower’s line of products, visit www.vinpowerdigital.com, or speak with a Vinpower representative in your area.

Chinese New Year is a major holiday around the world, but especially in China and Taiwan, which both shut down production in factories for prolonged periods so that workers can spend this time with their family. Normally, we’re accustomed to the Chinese New Year taking place in February, but this year, it starts on January 22, 2023. That means if you want anything to start production and/or ship from China and Taiwan before the New Year, you need to have your orders in by the 1st week of January at the latest.

Vinpower is happy to help anyone that needs to place an order for storage related products and is pressed against the deadline. Contact us today to make sure your product isn’t delayed due to the rapidly approaching Chinese New Year holiday.

Vinpower will be exhibiting at CES in Las Vegas, NV Jan. 5 – 8, 2023 in the Central Hall, booth # 15593. Look forward to visiting with anyone that plans to attend.

To learn more about this item, or any of Vinpower’s line of products, visit www.vinpowerdigital.com, or speak with a Vinpower representative in your area.

Ownership of content doesn’t have the same necessity as it did in the past. Now with so many streaming sites for programing, both video and audio, so readily available, why buy the latest album or movie when you can seemingly stream it at a whim? That’s fine, but what happens when you’re in a place where you don’t have access to the internet, which means you don’t have access to those streaming platforms? What are you supposed to do then? How will you entertain yourself? Play cards, read a book (wait no one carries books either), or say not so, engage and talk to the other people you’re with? You could download all that programming onto your iPhone or iPad before you set off on this adventure, but then you’d have no space for all your podcasts and plethora of Apps filling up your memory capacity.

Well, the iXflash allows you to prevent having a meltdown and offers and easy to use alternative to having to go without. Simply load that content onto your iXflash, thus not using your iPhone or iPad’s memory and listen or watch your content anywhere, anytime, with ease!

The below YouTube link will show you how easy it is to stay connected to your content, even when you’re unable to connect to the internet:

https://youtu.be/phhJTNbm_gA

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I railed about this topic last year and found this year it’s not only appropriate, but even more relevant to refresh everyone’s memory of the importance of owning the actual movies or programs that you enjoy watching frequently or at least seasonally. As I stated before, one tradition we have at our house in December is to watch the animated and stop motion Claymation movies from the 70’s. Movies like A Charlie Brown Christmas, the Christmas Claymation movies from Arthur Rankin, Jr. and Jules Bass, like “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”, “Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town”, “Jack Frost”, plus so many other popular holiday classics. Previously, these movies were run frequently on regular broadcast over the air TV or “Free TV” throughout the month. However recently, a number of the pay streaming services started acquiring these classics and broadcasting them exclusively for their paid content audience. For instance, Apple TV acquired A Charlie Brown Christmas and now it cannot be shown anywhere except through Apple TV. That means if you don’t subscribe to Apple TV, because it’s too expensive, not enough programming to justify the cost, or you simply have 12 other video streaming platforms you already subscribe to and can’t justify adding another, then you can’t watch this animated holiday classic. This year, it was even worse. We wanted to watch the classic Miser Bros. production of “The Year Without a Santa Claus”, and it was only available as a paid rental through Amazon, which means you have to still pay extra to watch this movie even if you have Amazon Prime.

That’s why, Instead of being at the mercy of the video streaming services, get the classics you enjoy on DVD or Blu-ray so that you can watch them whenever and wherever you want. That’s why keeping and acquiring movies and even music on optical discs is still worthwhile, because you never can tell when something you want to watch or listen to will actually be available on the streaming services you subscribe to when you want them.

Reminder, Vinpower will be exhibiting at CES in Las Vegas, NV January 5th-8th, 2023 in Central Hall, Booth # 15593. If you’re attending, we hope you visit with us.

To learn more about this item, or any of Vinpower’s line of products, visit www.vinpowerdigital.com, or speak with a Vinpower representative in your area.

One of my colleagues took a trip with his family to England recently. Being an engineer and a good father, he wanted the trip to be both fun and educational, so he went to the London Science Museum with his family. While there, he discovered a lovely exhibit that discussed the inner workings on how a CD works. We may feel like CD technology is old and outdated, but it’s still a modern miracle of science on how a laser is used to read such minute Pits and Lands to hear music, read files, or watch videos. In fact, the below short video highlights just how simple the concept is, but how incredible it is to create.

Click on the below YouTube link for a short 20 second clip.

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Whether it’s for your business or your personal needs, we are all storing more an more data on our hard drives. Often times, that stored content is rarely or virtually never looked at, but you don’t want to delete it because it might by important. We call that Cold Data because it’s content that you store but basically don’t use, like food you put in the freezer. You may want it later, but don’t need it right away.

We’ve all become hoarders of digital content because, unlike the food in your freezer, it’s not taking up physical space, so it doesn’t seem to be a burden. But, it is taking up precious digital space and if you don’t address it, eventually you will run out of memory to store new content. So what do you do when you need more memory and you don’t want to delete old content?

The rule of thumb is you just add more memory. You can do that one of 3 ways:

1) Upgrade your hard drive to a larger size or add another hard drive, which is costly and only delays the inevitable storage crunch again in the future

2) Upload your content to the cloud, which costs money and could potentially leave your content vulnerable to hackers

3) Offload the cold data onto optical discs that are inexpensive, compact, and easy to store and access

The best solution for your storage crunch are offloading cold data to optical discs. Optical discs have a long archival life, are easy to retrieve the content, and take up very little physical space, so they can easily be stored virtually anywhere. You may not listen to music on CD’s anymore or watch movies on DVD’s or Blu-ray either, but optical discs are still ideal for storage!

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Secure Digital Cards, more formally known as SD and MicroSD Cards, have practically become the universal memory for all small portable electronic devices. SD or MicroSD cards are used in mobile phones, tablets, TV’s, cameras, game consoles, navigation, and so many other devices that require very small compact stable memory. The reason SD and MicroSD Cards are so popular is because they are made of extremely durable and solid material, which prevents most mechanical damage from occurring. They are based on non-volatile memory to ensure the stability of data and it doesn’t require periodic refreshing or prone to failure due to abrupt power outages. That’s why it’s perfect for portable devices or stored in devices that are prone to the elements and turbulent conditions, including many components that used in cars, planes, boats, etc.

We all recognize the value of SD and MicroSD Cards, but what’s the point of this email blast? The key is, unlike optical discs that can be replicated, there’s only 1 way to transfer information onto SD and MicroSD Cards, duplication through a computer or a standalone SD/MicroSD Card duplicator. Even though cameras and cell phones may require empty SD/MicroSD cards that the owners will fill up with photos, videos, music, movies or what not, many of the devices that use SD/MicroSD Cards have content prestored on them. The manufacturers of those products need a quick and easy way to transfer identical content across hundreds, thousands, even millions, of cards accurately and in the shortest time possible.

Vinpower offers a full range of SD duplicators, in sizes from 1 to 3 up to 1 to 127, in a single console that offer slots for both standard SD Cards and MicroSD Cards. Having a dedicated MicroSD slot means you don’t need an adaptor to fit in the standard SD slot, saving time and costs. Vinpower has worked with a variety of entities, from auto manufacturers, to licensed toy manufacturers providing SD duplicators so they can reproduce the SD and MicroSD Cards that make their devices operate. That is the one thing they all have in common, the items they are producing require hundreds of thousands of identically reproduced SD and/or MicroSD Cards that are to be inserted into every device they plan to sell.

If you are developing a program that needs to be copied onto multiple SD or MicroSD Cards, Vinpower’s line of SD Duplicators is the perfect device to make it happen.

To learn more about this item, or any of Vinpower’s line of products, visit www.vinpowerdigital.com, or speak with a Vinpower representative in your area.

When the CD was introduced in the early 1980’s, it took the world by storm. The ability to hear their music in such pristine clarity and an entire album could be contained on 1 side, meant the listener didn’t have to stop the music to turn the record or cassette to side B. At that time, there was only replicated CD’s as the recordable CD-R wasn’t invented or probably thought of at that time. By the early 90’s, the 1st recordable CD-R’s were introduced and even though the early versions were very expensive and slow, it didn’t take long for the CD-R to take off either. As the prices dropped and accessibility of recordable drives and CD-R’s increased, CD duplication towers began popping up all over.

The problem with CD duplication towers were there were no ways to perform a proper compare after the content was duplicated because CD-R’s had no ECC and there was no way to perform an accurate parity check through the duplicators. That meant there was no way to make an exact 100% recreation of CD audio content. That was until now. Vinpower has created their exclusive line of TrueAudio duplication equipment that can perform the 1st ever true Copy and Compare feature for audio CD-R’s. This option will allow operators performing audio CD duplication the assurance that the copied discs will be an exact reproduction of the master content.

CD duplication, particularly audio CD, is still extremely strong in many territories, showing there’s still a need for a better and more reliable CD duplicator. Just because the overall market has decreased, it doesn’t mean the market has disappeared. In fact, the businesses that have stayed the course, are finding it’s worthwhile to continue investing in CD duplication hardware as they are picking up more clients that no longer find replication a viable option.

Of course these towers can copy DVD as well, but the true advantage is the CD audio Copy and Compare functionality. If you’re looking to improve your reliability and confidence with your CD audio duplication jobs, contact Vinpower to learn more about our TrueAudio Duplicators.

For more details about this product or any product in the Vinpower offering, please visit our website atwww.vinpowerdigital.com, or contact a representative near you.

Recently I came across an article about a friend of Vinpower that still has a robust business selling floppy disks (see link to article below). Of course, the first thought that comes to mind is, who still uses floppy disks? Interesting enough, there are still many industries that built incredibly complex equipment 30, 40, even 50 years ago, that are still operational today. For instance, aviation equipment, military installations, nuclear armaments, medical installations, and more. These devices still require floppies to insert feature updates and other digital inputs from time to time. In most cases, like the nuclear arms, the fact they use such dated technology actually makes them safer because they are not susceptible to online hacking or remote entry.

With that in mind, there are certainly equipment built in the late 90’s and 2000’s that upgraded from floppy to optical disc (CD, DVD, Blu-ray) and will also have long lifespans requiring optical discs for upgrades and updates. Although, optical discs will certainly maintain an even greater influence well into the future due to its naturally embedded benefits, like being write once, large capacity, easy to store, archival grade, low maintenance, and much more. That means that optical discs cannot be altered, hold a tremendous amount of data, less sensitive than magnetic or tape storage, maintains data for a long time, and doesn’t require electricity or power when stored. That makes optical discs ideal for industries that need to be able to rely on a technology to last as long if not longer than the product(s) that rely on them.

Here’s the article about the demand for floppy disks:
https://www.reuters.com/technology/1990s-relic-floppy-disks-get-second-life-california-warehouse-2022-10-20/

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