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Lite-On and BenQ to Produce LightScribe DVD Burners
DigiTimes reports that
Lite-On and BenQ will OEM 16x DVD burners that are
LightScribe-compatible.
LightScribe is Hewlett-Packard's technology for burning monochrome
labels onto the non-data side of optical media.
The really interesting part of the article is the indication
that HP will not allow OEMs to sell LightScribe drives until
the second quarter of 2005.
Since HP still (as of late January, 2005)
has not managed get its own LightScribe burners into retail stores
(or LightScribe media, for that matter!),
this seems like an entirely unnecessary restriction.
Another interesting note in the article is the comment
that the per-drive royalty to HP
"may be"
$2 or $3.
That presumably is on top of a still unknown per-drive cost
just to implement the technology,
since LightScribe requires drives to spin with
more precision at lower speeds than usual.
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