PhotoSave DVDs Store Pictures Automatically

By Nick Mokey Published September 23, 2008

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Closely mimicking Memorex’s SimpleSave DVD-Rs, Verbatim launched its own line of intelligent backup media on Tuesday with its new PhotoSave DVDs. The writeable DVDs come preloaded with software that makes it easier for novice computer users to locate and backup media files on their PCs.

PhotoSave discs can either function in automatic or manual mode. Automatic requires only one click to scan a hard drive for pictures and begin filling the disc with them, while manual gives users more control by allowing them to pick and choose what should be saved, and span content across multiple discs. For images that haven’t even been pulled off a camera yet, the DVDs can even recognized connected cameras and write images from their memory.

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The relatively small size of the included software keeps it from biting too far into the included storage, giving every disc a full 4.5GB for images.

Verbatim will introduce the discs in packages of three and five, which will sell for $10 and $15, respectively. The 3-packs will debut in late September, while the 5-packs won’t be available until October.

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