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PC World Reports on LightScribe Delay
In a small article at pcworld.com,
Melissa Perenson reports that HP's new LightScribe technology
for labelling optical discs is still missing in action.
She quotes an HP representative who repeates the new promised
ship date of January 2005.
However, for once, a reporter actually pressed HP to
reveal what's up with that missed-by-a-mile ship date.
The reply was to the effect that all the pieces (drive,
media, software) have been working, but not
"working together".
Who knows what that really means,
but it sure sounds like the traditional optical disc swamp of
trying to get multiple manufacturers to conform to a specification
closely enough to avoid compatibility nightmares.
If true, than better the technology is delayed until they
get it absolutely right.
A consumer buying LightScribe discs that burn correctly in
some LightScribe drives but not others would guarantee that
this new technology would be still-born.
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