Another example of a better mouse trap that never broke through. At the end of the day, TMTA was/is an engineering company. Tinker in the lab for a couple of years and then unveil your creation while the marketing guys make the rounds crowing "chips...chips...anyone need chips?"
Not a way to break through with the volume vendors like HP/Dell/IBM/etc. If I'm going to launch a PC product with volume in the millions then you better be holding my hand and incorporating my feedback into your development.
"he regular cartridges which get you about 200-300 discs for about $40 of ink
By my math that works out to around $0.20 per disc.
Considering I'm paying around $0.40 for DVD media, that's a 50% premium so I can print a label?
For everyone grumbling about buying a "special" media to enable this capability... WTF? As though you have some huge investment in blank media that you have to write off as obsolete?
My guess is that LightScribe will be licensed to major media manufacturers at no more than a few cents a unit and the media will be marketed as "LightScribe-enabled" at a slight premium.
It'll just become part of the normal manufacturing process. And after the whole DVD-R vs. DVD+R battle, this would seem to be a pretty trivial development with respect to industry standards.
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Another example of a better mouse trap that never broke through. At the end of the day, TMTA was/is an engineering company. Tinker in the lab for a couple of years and then unveil your creation while the marketing guys make the rounds crowing "chips...chips...anyone need chips?" Not a way to break through with the volume vendors like HP/Dell/IBM/etc. If I'm going to launch a PC product with volume in the millions then you better be holding my hand and incorporating my feedback into your development.
"he regular cartridges which get you about 200-300 discs for about $40 of ink By my math that works out to around $0.20 per disc. Considering I'm paying around $0.40 for DVD media, that's a 50% premium so I can print a label?
so you'd rather buy expensive ink and a "special" printer? (no they don't all print on CD/DVD) what's the difference?
For everyone grumbling about buying a "special" media to enable this capability... WTF? As though you have some huge investment in blank media that you have to write off as obsolete? My guess is that LightScribe will be licensed to major media manufacturers at no more than a few cents a unit and the media will be marketed as "LightScribe-enabled" at a slight premium. It'll just become part of the normal manufacturing process. And after the whole DVD-R vs. DVD+R battle, this would seem to be a pretty trivial development with respect to industry standards.