LightScribe not popular?

I was just looking around at two of HP's preconfigured DV1000 models, the DV1340us and DV1440us. I noticed that both were mostly identically the same except for the DV1440 having a 2 ghz processor instead of the DV1340's 1.86 ghz processor. Also, the DV1340us had a Lightscrive DVD burner whereas the DV1440us's DVD burner was non-Lightscribe. Everything else about the notebooks was the same. Since the DV1440us is the newer model and lacks Lightscribe unlike its predecessor, is HP getting the feeling that the lightscribe technology is unpopular?

I've heard lots of people say it isn't that great, what with its expensive media and very slow burn time. The technology looks cool, I'm hoping for full color, that would be awesome!!

 

My own personal experience with lightscribe wasn't great. The drive worked fine, but it could burn the disc in six minutes and 30 minutes to do the lightscribe thing. If they could get the time down to what takes to burn a disc, they might have something.

 

How does Lightscribe work anyways? I think that there's dye on the disc and the laser just arranges it to form a picture right? Is color lightscribe possible? If they do make color lightscribe discs, will todays lightscribe burners be able to burn them?

 

From what little I've read about it, to me it seems like a pricey novelty. It's very time consuming to burn-flip-burn, plus you pay an extra premium for the required lightscribe blank discs.

I seems to me that one could benefit much more by saving the money for that option (just stick with a DVD +/- DL RW drive and spend the money you saved on something more useful (extra RAM, faster CPU, etc.).

 

Don't inkjet printers have the ability to print onto cds?
Lightscribe takes an eternity and is not colour.

 

It is first generation of a new technology. New version's able to do color and burn faster are in the pipeline. For now it is early adopter technology. On the nice side HPshopping.com is only charging a $25.00 to upgrade to the Lightscribe drives and they are 8X DVD burners.

 

i just dont want to flip the disc to burn an image onto it. call me lazy.

 

Alright, you're lazy.

 

yea I think for the cost in time and extra money, I just don't think there's that much value added. Give me a sharpie any day!