HP signs up new LightScribe licensees

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While they've got alot of industry support, I'm not sure how well the drive will really go over. Considering the fact you need the supported drive, disk, and software, it'll more likely find a niche market unless prices match current hardware. While software will probably be bundled with the drive, having to buy special media will kill it.

This was the path Yamaha tried a few years ago with the DiscT@2 technology built into the FX-1 drive. It came bundled with the Yamaha version of Nero 5.5 that supported the drive. The premise was to burn a label or graphic on the unused portion of the CD. While you didn't need a special CDR to use it, the T@2 showed up best on the blue tinted CDRs (don't remember the chemical composition denoting the blue tint). I have one of the drives, and it did work decently. A year later, Yamaha exited the CD-drive business.

While I don't expect HP to mass-exodus the DVD/CD drive business the way Yamaha did, the only thing that will keep this afloat longer, and the reason why Yamaha suffered, is because of the licensing agreements with other manufacturers. Yamaha tried to keep it in house, which concluded in its short run. LightScribe will last longer only because more companies will be pushing it. In the end, as I said before, any increase in cost over a normal burner will slow adoption, and it will probably last a couple years until the novelty wears off.

Jarrett

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