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[WilHarris]

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2006/01/06/storage_media/

Fascinating

[Sea Shadow]

Cool.

p.s. you might want to clean up the links in the USB paragraph.

[Buzzons]

lightscribe is.. pants! nothing good about it at all, it takes too long to do, looks naff, and no one will notice it any how!

[ThE-LyNX]

The BCD (Bi-stable Cholesteric Display) could have intersting modding opputunities if commercially available in big enough sizes (price would be important too )

[specofdust]

The BenQ Blu-Ray thing is very intresting, to be honest, I don't consider DVD's a valid backup option for myself, because I'd need well over 120 to back up my entire collection of hard disks, however, if discs were 50GB each, even if they cost quite a bit more, that would be an acceptable solution for backups, so long as the things don't deform and die in 12 months like DVD's do.

[Firehed]

I've really been waiting for Lightscribe media to be available. I burn a LOT of DVDs, and something a bit nicer than the sharpie solution would be good. Supposedly text labels are pretty quick, and that's all I'm really looking for. Time-permittion, a greyscale image wouldn't be bad either, but probably not worth my time.

Have I missed something, or is anyone else totally ignorant as to what U3 compliance is for a flash drive?
edit - nevermind, read a different page. How's it any different than the "Firefox to go"-type variants of several pieces of OSS? Does it basically keep it's own registry so the 'normal' Windows one isn't needed?

[Malfoleo]

I agree with the above "lightscribe" sucks bit. Apparently the DVD super drive in my laptop supports it, but not only did the bloody thing not come with software for it, but I've not found any disks for it, plus when friends have shown me this in action, it looks crap, and takes far too long.

In general save yourself the time and money: just go to an art school and buy a bloody sharpie!

Originally Posted by specofdust

so long as the things don't deform and die in 12 months like DVD's do.

Explain this to me. I've not had a single cd/dvd die on me, ever. Hell, I've still got the first CD that I ever owned kicking around here somewhere. That thing is almost 10 years old now! Still works though, even after an abhorrent amount of use

[MrWillyWonka]

Originally Posted by Malfoleo

Explain this to me. I've not had a single cd/dvd die on me, ever. Hell, I've still got the first CD that I ever owned kicking around here somewhere. That thing is almost 10 years old now! Still works though, even after an abhorrent amount of use

Quite True, I've got CD's that are nearly 10 years old too, and last time I looked they were still working, however I have heard it is best to keep CD's in an upright position to prevent corrosion of some sort. Discs made in the 80's only have a life expectancy of 20 years (although nobody ever said that back then). Modern CDs should last at least a few decades, goes for DVD too.

Lightscribe is a new thing to me, although I have seen a small device which will burn text and logos in several colours to a disc, they were around £80 and takes 90 to burn to one disc. AFAIK you could use this device with any disc.

Nice to see they can be integrated into a cd drive, although the necessary special discs is a downside.

And someone needs to sort the links on that article.

[specofdust]

Some tech site did a test with a range of DVD-R's and +R's, they found that across the price and format board, within a year of being in a cool dry box out of the sun, some had failed. I need my data to last more then a year, thats why I may consider DVD-RAM as an option for backup, but I wouldn't consider DVD-R or DVD+r after seeing that tests results.

[Hybr1d]

I'd love to have a lightscribe drive, it's so neato! It's worth it just to impress your geeky friends, heh.

But Malf's right, Sharpies ftvv