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Disc Writers Now Print the Label Too

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the it's-a-bout-time dept.

gardolas writes "Rippers and burners with an eye for design have a new way to smarten their image. Disc writers that can print images onto the label sides of the discs will hit the market next month. The LightScribe system has been developed by Verbatim and HP."

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  1. Obvious question, but... by Weaselmancer · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...how much extra does the media cost that'll let you write to the label side?

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    rediculous.
  2. Fantastic! by bigtallmofo · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This will make it much easier to label the 42 DVD+Rs it takes to back up the home MiniDV digital camcorder videos I store on my computer.

    Now if only they'd do something silly, like agree on future DVD standards that actually might make a removable media device that keeps up with today's hard drive sizes, we'd be set. In the meantime, we now have been spared the torture of printing DVD labels on a separate device. That's something.

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  3. or here by way2trivial · · Score: 2, Insightful

    From march

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  4. Re:Next month? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Well it was next month, the first time /. ran this story.

  5. Re:Next month? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    By your definition nuclear weapons are also "available" because there are people who have some. Until you can walk into a store and buy one or go online and order one and actually have it delivered in some reasonable time frame, they are not yet available in any meaningful sense of the word.

  6. Re:Neat concept by Antonymous+Flower · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It is actually pretty pointless. Seems like a gimmick to keep drive prices high, and therefore profitable.

  7. Needs a built in label scanner.... by EmbeddedJanitor · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Since probaly 90% of CD burning is disc duping, you really need a scanner to dupe the label too.

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  8. Re:Neat concept by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm not seeing the "pointless" part. At the moment, I label my CDs and DVDs with a black marker (which can result in illegible labels, at least for others). My other option is to use a round-shaped label and a separate printer (and hope that either I or the printer don't screw up and have to print a second copy). I don't see that something that takes additional user error and adds convenience is entirely 'pointless'.

  9. Removable drives by tepples · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Now if only they'd do something silly, like agree on future DVD standards that actually might make a removable media device that keeps up with today's hard drive sizes, we'd be set.

    There are two such standards: "USB hard drive" and "FireWire hard drive".