In a recent discussion, HTRN asked what folks thought of the LightScribe enabled drives. I told him I would get one and let him know what I thought, and it arrived tonight.

The drive I purchased (from NewEgg, of course) is the OEM Samsung SH-S162L that was bundled with a lightscribe enabled OEM version of Nero 6. The drive has all the bells and whistles besides being LightScribe enabled and was only $35. However, the media is a little expensive. I got a 30 pack of Verbatim 8X LightScribe DVD+R for $24 and a 30 pack of Verbatim LightScribe CD-R for $18.

The regular backup of data and disks is just as fast as any other drive I have, so the big deal here is the labeling. The software with Nero is very simple to use and gives you plenty of options for adding custom graphics, text, and shapes. I burned a simple card theme that circled a disk with some text in about 7 minutes but the text was real hard to read, even on best quality. I hit the LightScribe website and found a contrast add-on to fix that. I then burnt the image below and it took about 30 minutes. The quality is great, and the effects are pretty cool.

I hate backing up my music CD's and movie DVD's then writing on them with a Sharpie because it looks so cheap and unprofessional. One of the first things I'll use the drive for is to make some new "toolkits" that I use at work to fix PC's; a tech theme will look a hell of a lot better than my poor handwriting.

I like it and if you are in the market for a new DVD writer, you might as well add the LightScribe capability. It doesn't really add any cost to the drive. You just need to be willing to pay a few extra bucks for the media.

Does that answer your question, HTRN?

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That looks pretty good. I may have to pick one up later on.

Thanks BA. +rep for the info

My cousin had one of these drives around a year and a half ago, aboiut 6 months before HP even started advertising, and then a year old PC we see this sticker on the front "Lightscribe technology"

I was like Holy crap weve had this awesome tech and never tried it, but after i saw the media prices i was like well theres a good reason to wait some more, but now that i have seen a pretty decent resolution result i think i may go get some of those discs

Thanks for the info BA and awesome CD

That looks off the hook!

WTG BA.

I might get one of those some day soon, prolly within the year.

Just to back up BA's claim...I have an HP version of this drive....and I really, really, really like it...It burns regular cd's in a less then two minutes usually....and DVD's are pretty stable too.
The lightscribe takes some time to produce...but the qualty is cool....

Heres a pic of a backup of mine.

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i must get one of those !!!!!!

man i can with those to have a oraginal Look for CD and DVD

i like first on for the pcapex and the adobe

good luck

thanks for this information !