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[Matlock]

Lightscribe, for the uninitiated, is the disk format that has dye on the label side that can be darkened via a laser in the writing drive. Example:

Impressive, no? But, with the extra cost of disks (which is est at "lower than the price of buying a label and a disk) and around a $200 pricepoint for the first-gen equip...will it catch on?

Also to be noted is the upcoming of portable media players, which may have already cannibalized a good chuk of optical writeable media sales.

 

[goodcow]

I just found out about this technology today. I want it.

 

[Kung Fu Jedi]

That looks really cool. I'd use something like that.

 

[Zensetsu]

Very cool, but kinda pointless. Good 'ol permanent marker has never let me down.

 

[Borys]

I'll wait for the colour version of LS thank you.

 

[tedtropy]

It's neat, but the media is harder to find and more expensive and it can only do single-tone images. Yamaha had a technology a few years back that could burns small images on the bottom of the disc if the data did not take up the entirety of it.

 

[karasu]

What is the point of this?

 

[Danj]

Apparently NEC are going to put out a Super Multi Drive including DVD-RAM support and LightScribe support, and since their drives tend to be mad cheap and available everywhere I think it will catch on. It's a good idea and although the images are only monochrome I think it looks a lot better than a label. Plus since it's inscribed on the actual CD itself there's no chance of the disc becoming unbalanced because of incorrect label placement.

 

[Pellham]

I hope it catches on but I wouldn't pay the current price for it.

 

[SickBoy]

If I wanted something I was burning to look professional, Lightscribe or a printable disc surface would be the only ways I'd go. I think, though, that printable discs have more of a future unless this Lightscribe stuff starts taking off... I've seen the drives for a while. Haven't seen much media and what I have come across (only CD-Rs) has been expensive.

 

[SKluck]

Well LS CDS are like a buck apiece, DVDs are like 1.25. I wouldn't pay more than 30 cents for a DVD, I might pay 40 for a LS DVD.

 

[aoi tsuki]

Very cool, but kinda pointless. Good 'ol permanent marker has never let me down.

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[Shogmaster]

The equipment is pretty cheap. You can easily get LS DVD burners at Newegg under $100.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16827101642
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16827140007

On top of that, it looks like all the new DVD burners equiped HP desktop PC are using LS models.

 

[Sumidor]

The Image quality on the Epson's CD capable printers are surprisingly nice. I print photos as well as graphics and they come out looking comparable to a light matte photo.

After buying the Jimmy Chamberlin Complex album off iTunes, i made a cd graphic and printed right on the burn.

As clean and sharp as lightscribe is, i prefer color images and/or black/white over the gold cds.

 

[shattyboombatty]

What is the point of this?

Um... so that you get this

instead of the unintelligible scribbling of a sharpie.

Also since you're burning the image into the dye that's already there, you dont have to buy tons of ink like the for the printer's that'll do labels... although having it in color is the other side of that argument.

Overall I like.

 

[miyuru]

Yeah it's a novel idea, but I mean what's important on a burned disc is the data, not the labelling. So I don't really care for it, especially since LS discs are pricier than regular ones.

 

[quest]

The Image quality on the Epson's CD capable printers are surprisingly nice. I print photos as well as graphics and they come out looking comparable to a light matte photo.

After buying the Jimmy Chamberlin Complex album off iTunes, i made a cd graphic and printed right on the burn.

As clean and sharp as lightscribe is, i prefer color images and/or black/white over the gold cds.

I love my epson R200 the print quality is excelent. The R200 is by far the best printer I have ever gotten for the price. The price of printable media is reasonable and the results can be stunning with a good scanner.