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Internal Lightscribe DVD burners?


dbminter

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What's up with trying to find a new internal Lightscribe DVD burner? I checked NewEgg and they have none, except for duplicators. I checked Amazon.com and all they had were LiteOns and LGs. Unfortunately, both options are non-starters. The last 2 LiteOns I had were junk. One wouldn't write DVD's at all and the other, a Blu-Ray drive, would not write DVD+R DL VIDEO_TS jobs without skips and pops and then stopped writing to BD-RE's after only 5 months. The LG is not an option because, for whatever reason, the one I tried doesn't write 8x DVD+RW correctly. It writes to discs a few times and then they're unusable. At least my LiteOn writes to them the intended multiple times. The drive also doesn't write to DVD-RW correctly. DVD-RW VIDEO_TS discs it burns aren't readable in Panasonic DVD recordables and can't be used by them until they are formatted fully in my LiteOn.

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Well, was able to mostly answer my own question. Went by Wikipedia and searched for Lightscribe to see if the technology had been discontinued. Read this in the entry:


"Companies such as HP, Samsung, LaCie and LiteOn have discontinued or are fading out LightScribe drives as of June 2013 with only LG still manufacturing drives."

 

 

So, that explains why I could only find LG, for the most part.  The LiteOns on Amazon.com were probably older models that have been discontinued back in June.

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