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Burn the CD on Both Sides
apocal writes "How cool wouldn't it be to be able to burn the label on your cd using the same laser you used to burn the cd in the first place? Well, I guess this technology called LightScribe will be coming soon. 'Suppose you have just created a compilation CD of a dozen or so of your favorite songs. Now you want to make a label that contains the song titles, artists' names, and some personal information and design elements to make it special. First, burn your tracks onto the data side of the disc. Then open your favorite LightScribe-enabled label-making software and go to the CD template work area. Now you do all of your creative design workcompose pictures, copy, artwork whatever. When you are satisfied with what you have done, take the disc out of your drive, flip it over to the label side and put it back in the drive. Now go back to your label-making software, and simply click print.'"
Athletic Scholarships to universities make as much sense as academic scholarships to sports teams.
As is, it only does black and white labels. How much harder would it be to extend the process to color labels? I imagine it'd require multiple layers of different coatings to achieve the proper result, plus the use of different lasers, but it shouldn't be impossible.
US businesses that currently accept chip and PIN/signature
Remember, there was some rule, stating that your data will always take 100.1% of your available storage space. Now you can encode the remainder using Paperdisk and write it on the surface, then read it back with a common flatbed scanner!
Anagram("United States of America") == "Dine out, taste a Mac, fries"
Ok, this is annoying. Second advertisement in a row. The question now is: are the editors just slow, or they are getting paid for this?
I am John Hurt.
It also says the evidence for it is scant, and infrequent. I've had problems with the top layer flaking off, but never problems from the sharpie.
Given the HUGE amount of people that use sharpies to label disks and the scant evidence, I'd tend to ignore this as just FUD.
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I picked up some Verbatim discs with a deep blue metallic dye, and the T@2 definitely shows up. It's still completely useless to me, though, since it can't write on the data portion.
The actual drive is one of the best investments I've ever made, though. I've only burnt coasters doing on-the-fly copies from lesser drives.
I've always wished that someone would figure out how to use the DiscT@2 ability for burning pits of arbitrary length and breadth of the CRW-F1 to burn CDVs (CD-sized laserdiscs) -- but even if it's theoretically possible, I doubt it'll ever happen.
The second one in a row, too
If you look at the "who is licensed?" page at http://lightscribe.com/whoislicensed.aspx You can see that many major companies, already has licensed the technology so I can already see this becoming some sort of standard. At least when major software, hardware and media companies like Ahead (Nero)/Cyberlink/Intervideo (software), Memorex/TDK (media), Toshiba/Philips/Hitachi (hardware) support them. No, I'm not working for any of them, just stating that when some of the major companies in the industry support something it usually becomes a standard sooner or later.
this japanese article shows the MOD,to burn some image or text.
Yorkshire's (UK) tap water actually has a higher purity than most bottled waters. It even comes with a load of those nice trace minerals which give it many of the same (supposed) health properties.
It is actually possible (or so I hear) to buy Yorkshire Water's tap water bottled (if that makes sense) outside of the county, although I can't say for sure if that was a short-term marketing gimmick or not.
How many people can read hex if only you and dead people can read hex?
Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't the recording surface very close to the top of the disk. Meaning when you scratch the top of the disk, it damages the recording surface. This is the impression I had, and if this is the case, it seems advantageous to have a paper label affixed to the disk. It seems like the paper provides an extra layer of protection.
Why burn just a label? If the laser can burn pits with optically different properties from the untouched label, without affecting the optical pattern of pits on the other, "data" side, how about letting us burn another CD on the label? I want a 1.6GB CD, and then a double-sided laser head so I don't have to flip it!
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Will this work?
Burn a DVD (probably better than a CD). Fill the unused portions with some pattern. Now get a marker and paint whatever pattern you want. Read the cd. Note what sectors are corrupted. Re-burn on a DVD of the same brand, plus burn only the uncorrupted sectors (you need a DVD+R for this, to have individual sector writing).
How much resolution will this have?