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Verbatim LightScribe 1.2 DVD+R Media Available At Best Buy
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Tue Mar 07, 2006 9:25 pmby Ian
I stopped at Best Buy tonight to pick up some 8x DVD+R DL media for dolph. Sitting next to it on the shelf was Verbatim's new LightScribe 1.2 DVD+R media. These discs are supposed to be 1.8x (or is that 1.6x?) faster than standard LightScribe media.
Oh yeah, they wanted $39.99 for a pack of 30.. same price as the old discs.
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Tue Mar 07, 2006 10:19 pmby dolphinius_rex
Notice how he neglects to mention whether he picked some of THOSE up for "Dolph" too....
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Tue Mar 07, 2006 10:22 pmby Ian
dolphinius_rex wrote:Notice how he neglects to mention whether he picked some of THOSE up for "Dolph" too....
I didn't buy them for myself either. If they would have had their new LightScribe 1.2 CD-R discs in stock, I would have picked some up for both of us.
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Wed Mar 08, 2006 12:37 amby MonsterMan
Do these need a firmware update to work at the higher speeds? I've got a BenQ 1655 and find LS very useful for labeling backups discs. Slow, yeah, but I don't have (or need or want) a printer and only print (burn?) a few labels.
Edit: Any where online to order those?
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Sun Mar 12, 2006 11:19 pmby DeltaLima
Oh yes, will have to go see if available here but why I see nothing about that on the lisghtscribe.com website? Does current firmware recognize these new discs by reading the LS ID and will be faster or we need a new firmware?
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Sun Mar 12, 2006 11:39 pmby Ian
You should not need a firmware update. However, you will probably have to update your LS drivers so that the media is recognized correctly.
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Mon Mar 13, 2006 12:57 amby dolphinius_rex
I saw Memorex 8x DVD+Rs today, that had the sticker showing Lightscribe 1.2 as well. It claimed that they were compatible for faster labelling on all lightscribe drives, but no mention of needing to upgrade the lightscribe drivers...
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Tue Mar 14, 2006 1:24 amby DeltaLima
BTW, 1.2 is only about speed, right? No better contrast on the 1st pass with that newer dye layer?
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Tue Mar 14, 2006 2:02 amby TCAS
I am waiting for some "Labelflash" disc to show -up in the stores if any. Having NEC 4551 being idle for while I wonder if we would see Labeflash disc here soon?.
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Tue Mar 14, 2006 4:07 amby ItalianJob
DeltaLima wrote:BTW, 1.2 is only about speed, right? No better contrast on the 1st pass with that newer dye layer?
I read in the past that 1.2 was introducing differenr background colors. This spindle doesn't confirm it
For better contrast, lol, look the new utility on Lightscribe.com ... A shame.
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Tue Mar 14, 2006 11:16 amby dolphinius_rex
TCAS wrote:I am waiting for some "Labelflash" disc to show -up in the stores if any. Having NEC 4551 being idle for while I wonder if we would see Labeflash disc here soon?.
Personally, I'm hoping it'll be discontinued before it's brought over to North America, but that's just me
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Tue Mar 14, 2006 12:41 pmby dodecahedron
why?
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Tue Mar 14, 2006 1:14 pmby dolphinius_rex
dodecahedron wrote:why?
The market demand is VERY small for this technology, and right now the companies involved are having a hard time recouping R&D money as it is. Competition will only serve to kill both labelling formats. But luckily, Labelflash has barely touched Lightscribe's market as of yet.
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Tue Mar 14, 2006 5:13 pmby [buck]
Pff... these formats mean nothing to me. It adds about $20 to cost of the drive, and the media is at least 2X more expensive than regular media. If I wanted fancy labelling, I'd use inkjet printables which produce faster, better looking results for less.
Although, I guess for Joe Average who just wants to label a few discs, $80 for a printer in a bit much.
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Tue Mar 14, 2006 5:22 pmby ItalianJob
>>Competition will only serve to kill both labelling formats
Isn't LabelFlash already dead ?
Sad to see OEM NEC buyers without Nero CD not able to do LabelFlash during months because of a missing dll
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Tue Mar 14, 2006 7:26 pmby dolphinius_rex
ItalianJob wrote:Isn't LabelFlash already dead ?
Pretty much yeah... it's not QUITE as dead as DVD-R for Authoring, but it's more dead the DVD-RDL.
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Tue Mar 14, 2006 8:30 pmby TCAS
ItalianJob wrote:>>Competition will only serve to kill both labelling formats
Isn't LabelFlash already dead ?
Sad to see OEM NEC buyers without Nero CD not able to do LabelFlash during months because of a missing dll
You don't need a missing dll file to enable the "Labelfalsh" Nero 7.0.8.2 already has this function support build into it
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Wed Mar 15, 2006 12:15 pmby ItalianJob
TCAS wrote:You don't need a missing dll file to enable the "Labelfalsh" Nero 7.0.8.2 already has this function support build into it
I know, but it's out since a few days only...
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Wed Mar 15, 2006 1:33 pmby dolphinius_rex
TCAS wrote:ItalianJob wrote:>>Competition will only serve to kill both labelling formats
Isn't LabelFlash already dead ?
Sad to see OEM NEC buyers without Nero CD not able to do LabelFlash during months because of a missing dll
You don't need a missing dll file to enable the "Labelfalsh" Nero 7.0.8.2 already has this function support build into it
I for one am VERY skeptical about Nero 7 in general. I'm still using Nero 6 for all my own stuff, and keep Nero 7 confined to my "play" PC for occasional testing to see if it's started working properly yet. Seriously, it's coastered almost every Audio CDR and Video DVDR its' burned!
