Windows Phone Thoughts: LightScribe Simplifies CD/DVD Labelling

"Tired of figuring out how to neatly and efficiently label your CDs and DVDs? Hewlett-Packard has come up with a simple solution: Use the same laser that burned the data to make the label for the other side of the disc. A technology called LightScribe enables drives to burn a silk-screen-like, high-contrast label on the topside of CD or DVD media with a LightScribe dye coating. After completing a data burn, users are prompted to flip the disc over so they can burn a label onto it."



This is utterly and completely off topic, but I've so incredibly thrilled at this new technology that I just had to share it with everyone here. I'm an achiver of memories - at events, I'm the guy snapping 500 pictures, then making a Web page for everyone to remember the event. I often use Photo Story to burn a CD, and if I'm making a video I'll burn a DVD, but the entire process falls apart when it comes to labelling. I'll save my uber-rant on CD/DVD labelling hell for Digital Media Thoughts, but suffice it to say that this technology is something I've only dreamt about, and I'll pay almost any amount of money to obtain one of these drives when they come out because it represents the "last mile" in creating professional-looking memories, and that's incredibly valuable to me - worth paying a little extra for media as well. Huge kudos to HP for coming up with something so innovative!