 | Need advice on DVD Double-Layer Burner with Light-Scribe |  |
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Best Buy has a DVD burner with LightScribe on sale for $49.99 (reg. $80.99) that I'm thinking of buying.
This one
Click on Specifications to see more details. The ad has a little footnote under the description that puzzles me, it say:
LightScribe compatable drive and media requred for direct disc labeling
I understand about the media needing to be a certain type but what do they mean about a compatable drive being required. Isn't that a drive they are selling?
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| Re: Need advice on DVD Double-Layer Burner with Light-Scribe | |
| Posted: 04/10/2007 7:54 AM |
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Rb, not to worry, they are talking about the lightscribe software, it only works with a LS burner and since thats what your buying you will be ok.
Thats cheap.  I paid twice that much and I didn't get the double burner, if there really is a difference, I could probably burn double discs if I wanted, I don't know. My sons new pc has the double burn disc capability but I don't know what the difference is. I should be able to just flip it over you'd think. |
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| Posted: 04/11/2007 6:42 AM |
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I should be able to just flip it over you'd think.
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I don't think that would work Dave because of a couple of reasons. First, when you try to record more than 4.7 GB of data to a single layer DVD your program will give you a message saying that this medium does not have suffecient space to hold all of the data. And second, if you could start burning data to one side, there would be no way of knowing where the data should stop on the first side and where it should begin on the reverse side. I would think that you might also lose the information from the first side as you started burning to the reverse side. Just my thoughts. |
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| Posted: 04/11/2007 7:08 AM |
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| Thanks bobby. I think I could still make it work by splitting the video, but I really don't like the idea of a double disc, it would be confusing to user later down the road and well, I bet it doesn't hold up for long. I just don't like the idea. My son thought it would be the greatest but he isn't saying much now that he used it. For one thing, he says they're expensive as heck. |
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| Re: Need advice on DVD Double-Layer Burner with Light-Scribe | |
| Posted: 04/11/2007 11:17 AM |
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fishead said:
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he says they're expensive as heck.
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Yes they are! I use them only for specialized uses. I copied a 6.5 GB Movie recently and that is the only DVD that would hold all of it. I tried using DVD Shrink to bring it down to a size that would go on to a regular DVD but DVD Shrink wouldn' t overcome the write protection on it. Let me quickly add that I wasn't pirating someone else's movie. This was a movie that I had purchased legally.
I don't remember how much I paid for my first 5-pack of Dual Layer DVDs but I found a Memorex 25 count DVD-DL pack at Office Depot for $25.95 last week. |
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