[linuxworks]

anyone here use lightscribe to label their discs? (I use it for dvd and cd; love it).

I now see drives out there with 'labelflash' branding. any insight as to what this is and how it compares to lightscribe?

 

[Hybrys]

Labelflash is a cheap competitor ripoff, and it's terrible, and amazingly hard to get media in Canada/US. You can't even do CDs, only DVDs.

http://www.belightsoft.com/products/...labelflash.php

 

[linuxworks]

thanks for the info. just dvd's ? that's lame.

strange that yamaha has something to do with it. yamy used to be a real big player back when cdroms first came out. my first recorder was a yam 2x scsi writer. that thing costed me over $600 too, IIRC. can you imagine using a 2x writer these days? caddy based, too! but it was a gold standard for years and years.

pity that the new format, as you say, is a pale compare to the lightscribe stuff. I use LS all the time and like it. the drives don't cost that much extra, either.

 

[Hybrys]

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Originally Posted by linuxworks /img/forum/go_quote.gif thanks for the info. just dvd's ? that's lame. strange that yamaha has something to do with it. yamy used to be a real big player back when cdroms first came out. my first recorder was a yam 2x scsi writer. that thing costed me over $600 too, IIRC. can you imagine using a 2x writer these days? caddy based, too! but it was a gold standard for years and years. pity that the new format, as you say, is a pale compare to the lightscribe stuff. I use LS all the time and like it. the drives don't cost that much extra, either.

It's not even REALLY a new format, it's just a competitor response, since LightScribe is proprietary technology. And it's poor implementation and market exposure make it lackluster in comparison.

I remember a few years ago, throwing around a broken SCSI cd recorder... I still have a working one somewhere, actually. 12x read, 2x write external, I think. Might have been stolen from the Alcan operations in Kemano. <_<