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LightScribe Gets Nero 6 Support
Nero, the venerable vendor of optical disc burning solutions,
has announced that it will offer support for
LightScribe
in upcoming software releases.
LightScribe is HP's new technology for burning silkscreen-quality labels
onto the non-data side of optical discs, using the same laser that is
normally used to burn data.
LightScribe requires an optical drive with LightScribe support,
special media
(whose non-data side is designed to have a label burned into it),
and special software to accomplish the actual burning.
The last requirement is what the Nero hopes to satisfy with its new software.
The three pieces have taken a long time to come together, given
that HP announced the LightScribe technology over a year ago,
at the 2004 Consumer Electronics Show.
One year later (January 2005), you can now actually purchase
LightScribe media and order (but not yet receive)
a LightScribe-enabled DVD burner.
But information about software solutions has been sparse and
slow in coming,
so this announcement by Nero is important to the future success
of LightScribe.
Nero says that an updated version of Nero 6 that supports
LightScribe burning will be available
"in the beginning of February"
for downloading from www.nero.com.
Nero Lightscribe support is doubtless appreciated by Hewlett-Packard,
since Nero already has so many customers,
and probably many of them are more likely LightScribe candidates than
the average computer user.
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