"Professional looking labels like this:" *Shows Papyrus and Comic Sans typefaces* I love this channel

@intjonmiller

4 жыл бұрын

Right?!? So subtle, so dry. Jokes for those who will get them, and aren't annoying to those who won't.

@JordanSugarman

4 жыл бұрын

Pretty sure there were implied air quotes in the way he accentuated the word "professional".

@KAZAM707

3 жыл бұрын

You know, I actually wasn't certain he was kidding bc he mentioned his 'great' CD later again. But I'm glad I found this comment. Phew!

@cst1229

3 жыл бұрын

i s t h a t a n u n d e r t a l e r e f e r e n c e /s

@ericbazinga

3 жыл бұрын

Now that I think of it, that's probably where the names for those Undertale characters came from. I've never played Undertale, but people will not fucking shut up about it.

KZreadrs are underappreciated. You have literally documented, researched, and presented tech history in a straightforward and memorable manner whilst also making people laugh with shenanigans.

@blazer6248

2 жыл бұрын

You should watch Cathode Ray Dude. He does the same stuff.

@gaelencarter4804

2 жыл бұрын

I think the level of appreciation is apt. He has a million and a half people who want to actively consume his content

@amiga2025

2 жыл бұрын

i Had a Lightscribe burner in a Compaq Presario. It quickly became a PITA to flip cdr to burn label.

@JordanScottMills

2 жыл бұрын

For the record i barely tolerate the shenanigans however clearly i stay for the amazing information, but hey if jesus christ couldn't win everyone over why should he? Guys a good dude, just a bit fuckin annoying.

@Shibby7634

2 жыл бұрын

@@amiga2025 I was so excited when our new computer had one, then immediately disappointed when it turned out all greasy/blurry looking haha. If I knew CDs were so much better than DVDs I might have at least played around with it so much more.

“Back when Apple had optical drives and headphone jacks” ouch!

@brendancross2767

3 жыл бұрын

Now it's just a fact of life that modern smartphones are going to require either bluetooth or a dongle

@chrismanuel9768

3 жыл бұрын

@@brendancross2767 According to who? Over 99% of phones on the market currently have built-in headphones jacks. Phones are used primarily as multimedia devices.

@brendancross2767

3 жыл бұрын

@@chrismanuel9768 Ok I stand corrected, the majority of flagship phones and all but one pocketable devices from apple

@andrew_koala2974

3 жыл бұрын

@@brendancross2767 Bluetooth as a subversive mechanism allowing inter-device transmission of data scavenged from users devices including a various assortment of 'Smart' devices and being ultimately relayed to APPLE - GOOGLE - AMAZON - and readily available Government Alphabet agencies - such as NSA - FBI - CIA et. al 5G and 6G will make the surveillance system more reliable.

@brendancross2767

3 жыл бұрын

@@andrew_koala2974 what

I had a Lightscribe drive in high school on my first custom PC. I did a lot of personal movie projects and school video projects. It made it look so much better. The common reaction was, "Whoa! How did you do that?" Considering I still only burned less than 100 DVDs during its entire use, it was still pretty cool. I still have my "first film" with my lightscribe logo on it, even with a fake PG-13 label and everything on it to make it look like a commerical dvd.

A quick explanation as to why the laser diode is lit all the time; what you're seeing when it's not writing is the laser diode in bias mode, laser diodes are very slow (relatively speaking) when switching from off to on, so the diode is kept on at low (bias) power which enables it to switch to writing power much faster.

@goldcd

5 жыл бұрын

This channel has the best comments

@EzeePosseTV

5 жыл бұрын

I was just away to say something similar, that the laser is lit all the time to keep the diode hot as warm up time from "off" state is slow.

So, something interesting. UCLA researchers are using Lightscribe to print graphene circuit boards on a thin layer of graphene oxide. Normally, graphene, much more graphene circuit boards, would take forever to make. Then, they discovered, the rust form, graphene oxide, was sensitive to intense light. Then, one of them recalled that Lightscribe is able to print on really thin layers of photosensitive material to make images. They make a thin layer of graphene oxide on top of a Lightscribe disk, Let it dry, and design their circuit boards on something like the Nero essentials

@MisterTalkingMachine

5 жыл бұрын

This has to be an episode someday.

@ichemnutcracker

5 жыл бұрын

I was wondering if somebody would bring that up here, as I was in that lab at that time. LightScribe drives were already hard getting hard to come by when we were working on it, so we had to order "new old stock" drives by the (literal) dozen, since we were burning out about one a week. We were switching over to low-power laser tables by the time I left.

@yoymate6316

4 жыл бұрын

Holy shit, I thought you were trolling newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/ucla-researchers-develop-new-technique-243553

@zianian

4 жыл бұрын

@@yoymate6316 I didn't.

@think2086

4 жыл бұрын

I'm wishing for a field trip to see this--as an episode.

You are right about LightScribe being underappreciated. I bought a bunch of these drives and disks in 2013 for use in my personal lab and when I ran out a few years later, I couldnt find them anymore. I always wondered what happened. I loved Lightscribe and made thousands of CDs and DVDs for coworkers. Thanks for this.

@lillexus5589

2 жыл бұрын

Just buy up old HP laptops with Lightscribe to harvest parts, even got one at home here catching dust.

@siavoshkasravi398

Жыл бұрын

Put out by your mom definitely.

@NicholasWiewiora

Жыл бұрын

@@lillexus5589 Can confirm. Have 2 old HP PCs laying around (desktops) and now have a 2007/2010 Lightscribe drive and a newer 2016 regular drive in my large case lol!

@dhl-96

8 ай бұрын

See if you can buy a junk lot of old DVD drives. I did that once. Paid about 15 dollars NZD for like 12 or 13 DVD drives of which at least 8 were lightscribe but there were at least 50 drives in there. I recommend going to a e waste or a local second hand or landfill store (If you have one)

my dad was very "early adopter" with all kinds of technology and we had a couple lightscribe burners and spindles of discs kicking around for years. as a kid i thought it was the coolest thing ever and i always thought it was a shame the technology just kind of died out. thanks for visiting it and shining some light on what i consider a forgotten gem from the disc burning era!

@joylox

Жыл бұрын

My dad had at least one too. But he later got something that would do colour more like a regular printer, and not take quite as long. I went to a private school that did a lot of musical programs so he'd record those and then people who wanted to could get a copy of the program to watch at home. I kind of miss those days because now that video files are HD or 4K and much larger, you can't just hand someone an SD card with a 20GB+ video on it, and it's too big to email, so it's like you upload it unlisted to KZread, or don't share it at all. I mean, he does still have all that gear, dozens of DVD-Rs and an old PC specifically saved to use apps that don't work on new Mac systems so he could still do it, but a lot of people don't use DVDs anymore. Laptops don't come with disk readers, and a lot of people don't have a DVD player for a TV since everything went to streaming.

@antikommunistischaktion

10 ай бұрын

​@@joyloxI mean, there are blank Blu-Rays but they never had Lightscribe so they'd never look professional unless he invested in a screen printing setup.

9:09 *uses Papyrus and Comic Sans* "and now I think that's a delightful design, worthy of a LightScribe label."

@capncrispypoo9342

4 жыл бұрын

Should've used the gnome

@ebnicolaou

4 жыл бұрын

Namelessnake yessss.

@GhostbusterJeffrey

4 жыл бұрын

You're gonna have a bad time

@youtuuba

4 жыл бұрын

Geez, Comic Sans is my favorite font for disk labels. Nice clean look, but not too formal, nor goofy or distracting. I only use it for disk titles though, and typically just use either one of the common sans-serif (Ariel or Calibri) or serif (Times Roman) for 'body text'. thus conforming to 'good practice' as I learned it whilst studying editing and professional page layout many moons ago.

@henryrichard7619

4 жыл бұрын

At least he didn’t use comic papyrus. That would be truly abysmal.

I still use lightscribe all the time when I want to make music CDs from artists that don't release their music on CDs. It's a lot of fun to design your own CD covers for lightscribe. The trick is to print to the disc 3 times. It may take a long time, but it makes the design a lot bolder and more crisp.

@mavenfeliciano1710

3 жыл бұрын

I was wondering if it could be done. I don’t remember much, but I think I had started one once and had to do it over again. I believe it was on the same disc but I just can’t remember.

@themessenger6560

2 жыл бұрын

What software do yo use

@TheSonicSegaNerd

2 жыл бұрын

@@themessenger6560 Nero 9 Essentials always worked pretty well for me

@dnirvine

2 жыл бұрын

I’ve never thought of doing it more than once.

@littlejackalo5326

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheSonicSegaNerd Nero? Wow. I had to check the date on this post. I remember using Nero like 20 years ago.

I pulled out my old Lightscribe and I thought "I bet someone like Technology Connections made a KZread video about this". You didn't disappoint :)

Loved lightscribe. If there was one thing I can say that helped my popularity in high school, it was the fact that I was one of, if not the only person in my class that had one, and made mix CDs for people. Everyone wanted a mix cd from me, so everyone brought me music to burn lightscribed CDs for them. Good times

@jessihawkins9116

8 ай бұрын

it’s bad enough you were engaging in copyright infringement, I hope you weren’t profiting from it as well. 🤨

@jessihawkins9116

8 ай бұрын

@@dennisthemenace3695 you be quiet 🤨

I am such a moron. I had a light scribe CD burner. I thought it was just a name.

@ckazruddy6796

5 жыл бұрын

same here

@RadikAlice

5 жыл бұрын

Related to that, I've had a Labelflash DVD/CD drive for years and thought just that. I'm surprised NEC of all companies made it, this one is kinda versatile though.

@1blackbirrrd

5 жыл бұрын

I was like this for a good while until I ended up seeing discs with the LightScribe logo on it. I had no clue, I ended up buying it and making a few discs with images.

@StarFanaticCraft

5 жыл бұрын

Im ashamed i never tried it i had tons of CDs.

@Rajathnaik7

5 жыл бұрын

Same here

Oh wow, I remember having and using lightscribe. Haven’t thought about it in such a long time

@kokos742

5 жыл бұрын

it´s one of those thing you were braging about to your friends and then used it twice, realized how expensive it is and then heart that there are regular printer that than do colour pics for much cheaper ... and never used them either :D

@Casey_Jones

5 жыл бұрын

You should make a Lightscribe Metal video! I don't know what it would entail, but I'm sure it would be great!

@kdan_69

5 жыл бұрын

I didn't expect you here XD

@themorphman100

5 жыл бұрын

@@kokos742 Haha yes that is funny but true. I remember buying an LG drive that had it. Used it about 4 times and never again

@rolliemate6239

5 жыл бұрын

My mum's first PC had lightscribe she was excited about it then never actually used it more than once I'm it's lifetime lol

I find it funny that "smell-o-vision" removes the "tele" or "far" part from television but keeps the "vision"-part, the sense it's not about :D

@lennonmclean

Жыл бұрын

lol, "telesmell"

@bb010g

Жыл бұрын

Telescent

As an audio mastering engineer I loved LightScribe discs. Much better than paper stick on or a Sharpie when tagging a reference CDR for a customer. Really looked professional.

Me, when I grill a steak: **Burn, flip, burn**

@JohannGambolputty22

3 жыл бұрын

CD’s are round. Burgers are round. Also about the same size. Coincidence?

@pedrogonzalez5590

3 жыл бұрын

@@JohannGambolputty22 **x-files music**

@Krystalmyth

3 жыл бұрын

@@JohannGambolputty22 Probably what they were hoping to connect. Marketing just failed to get the message out there.

@mattthe2nd865

3 жыл бұрын

@@JohannGambolputty22 instructions unclear burger stuck in cd player.

@JohannGambolputty22

3 жыл бұрын

Matt the 2nd, Call the Helpdesk

The phrase "new old stock" will always make me think of Techmoan.

@p00ky76

5 жыл бұрын

Well he certainly is new old stock :)

@autogolazzojr7950

5 жыл бұрын

It makes me think of my russian vacuum tube dealer

@jamesslick4790

5 жыл бұрын

I think of NOS car parts, Thankfully, NOS computer gear is smaller, leading up to a SOMEWHAT better chance of survival.

@DeathBringer769

5 жыл бұрын

I'm familiar with the phrase from the guitar/bass amp tube market, people buying ancient but still new in box tubes from like Russian aircraft and stuff because they are so reliable, lol.

Almost all of the computers we had growing up had light scribe, I loved the idea of custom labeling all my cds.... never used it even once.

I used to buy 50-disc spindles of red discs from Amazon for my band's demo in 2011. It worked well but I had to burn twice to get decent contrast. A total of ten discs failed to burn on the label side, so I can say 190 copies exist. At least it didn't take much effort to burn two at a time on my machine, but it did shorten the lives of my drives--replaced long ago.

I loved Lightscrbe and used it all the time back in college. I was so sad when it died out. And yes, I have a vivid recollection of the smell of the new spindles.

@NewsBroadcasting

3 жыл бұрын

i still use all sorts of burners from 1999 till the recent ones made today, and was a big nerd with them but i never heard of lightscribe.

@littlejackalo5326

2 жыл бұрын

@@NewsBroadcasting they still make CD burners? And why on earth are you still using them?

@JeroenJA

Жыл бұрын

@@littlejackalo5326 i have an usb one, i had needed it as reader to instal a program i bought to verify it .. it was only slightly more expensive to buy a writer... can't say i use it over a couple of times a year... i mean to use it to re-read old dvd's and back them up before they become unreadable... and laptop have no build in onces any more for years now :).

Me and a friend both had LightScribe burners. He'd use it constantly to label pira... back-up copies. I was fine with using a marker. Never used the thing.

@meh5812

4 жыл бұрын

porating is ok in my book

@ZaHandle

4 жыл бұрын

ah yes i loves piranhas so GOOOOD

@hexagonist23

Жыл бұрын

I hate how people still think "piracy" (file sharing) is somehow "bad" and "dodgy". This view is outdated in our modern society.

Another point for lightscibe: Let's say you drive in your car and want to change the cd. You'll have to put your interior lights on to see what your past self wrote on it in sharpie. Not so on lightscribe, as the disk is opaque, while the burned in text is transparent, so you could just hold it against a light and read the text right through the disk!!1!

@TheWeepingCorpse

Жыл бұрын

And have a heads on collision in the process.

@Caseytify

Жыл бұрын

@@TheWeepingCorpse yes, one hopes they pulled over first. 😏

i always wondered what the "lightScribe" was when i saw the dvd drive on my computer with that icon. and now i know 8 years later. and its impressive, HP does something cool for once

Man why do I only learn about cool things after they’re not a thing anymore?!

@andrew_koala2974

3 жыл бұрын

Samuel Charpentier Answer: Because you do not make an effort to read and study, and you lack the curiosity factor. Simple as that.

@far2ez539

2 жыл бұрын

@@andrew_koala2974 There's so much new technology in the world every day and most of it is garbage. No matter how curious you are, there is a limited number of hours in the day. If your options are between learning a new language and experiencing an entirely new culture of literally billions of people OR looking for stupid niche technology that will 99.99% die off in a month, you aren't "more curious" to waste your time. Stop justifying wasting your life and just admit you're a disappointment. Your parents will still love you.

@linksmokes420

2 жыл бұрын

@@andrew_koala2974 ratio

@diakounknown1225

Жыл бұрын

Because cool things stop being cool once they are normal. Touchscreens would have been the most awesome thing in 1970. Now it's normal

@marcusmedina9940

Жыл бұрын

@@andrew_koala2974 ironic

all my downloaded Wii ISOs are on lightscribe DVD''s and I burned a cover for all. They look real nice and I miss the damned thing!

@ez45

4 жыл бұрын

Same for my PS2 erm.. backups.

@laserbeam3836

4 жыл бұрын

@@ez45 backups lol

@christianmoore7109

4 жыл бұрын

This is something I hadn't thought of. I should've used that for my Dreamcast backups. They are backups, I have the original discs.

Pioneer had something called labelflash which worked the same way but could also burn a message around the unused edge of a normal disk if you had room after you'd burnt the movie or cd.

@kentslocum

Жыл бұрын

He mentions this during the end credits.

@charlesferdinand422

11 ай бұрын

Which software did you need to use Labelflash?

@OzSteve9801

11 ай бұрын

@@charlesferdinand422 LIM.exe

@chielvoswijk9482

8 ай бұрын

Yup. It was actually developed by NEC, but quickly spread amongst their partners Pioneer, Fujitsu and Yamaha. The ability to write on the data side was called a Disc tatoo. Which they called "DiscT@2" for some reason... early 2000s marketing was weird.

During my 2008-2012 high school years, I was the tech-video guy in my small town high school and ran an entertainment company doing DJ'ing & wedding videos. I sold SO many wedding videos with Lightscribe labels on customized color DVD's with matching plastic case. That was sometimes peoples favorite part. I know EXACTLY the smell you're talking about. RIP Lightscribe.

Howdy! I feel icky for the use of a particular word in the closing section and I need to say something about it because... icky. I regret saying that other channels "resort" to outside sponsorship. A much better word would have been "rely". Or even better, I should have not said anything. However channels make themselves possible is fine with me, and there are some people (like Jay Foreman, for example) who make the best and most hilarious sponsorship spots you can imagine. Nonetheless, I find it delightful that with the support of Patreon, this channel can keep going with complete editorial freedom. Especially when it gets all weird and cringey. That's why I'm always thanking the Patreon crew. It's amazing what people like you can do. So please pardon the inadvertent shade thrown on others. That was not intended. Be a nice person. It's always better. Thank you for reading this mushy comment.

@cuteswan

5 жыл бұрын

I knew what you meant, but it was good to make it clear anyway since most people on KZread (and, well, anywhere) don't usually take the time to practice the Principle of Charity these days. Thanks for another great lesson on technology and its history.

@mukrifachri

5 жыл бұрын

Do you have plans to see up the writing methods to other disc-based media storage ? I'm thinking non-optical methods or so... would be interesting I suppose ! Though I could understand they'd very obscure and very hard to procure.

@marvintpandroid2213

5 жыл бұрын

Cool video, if you need any help with a DVD-R episode then I would love to help, I worked for one of the major manufacturers in the early days to the technology.

@drewpaschal9294

5 жыл бұрын

I seem to remember a device that would not only burn discs, it also had a printer that would label them with ink. I seem to also remember the ink would get sticky and it just sucked. Would love to see that one shown too.

@williamreid6255

5 жыл бұрын

What's the name of the outro music? I actually kinda like it.

I had one of these and made my girl friend a music mix and lightscribed the label. She is now my wife, it worked. Lol.

@RockinEnabled

3 жыл бұрын

Gotta look for an old LightScribe drive in my wardrobe and keep it safe and ready for a similar need :D

@RockinEnabled

3 жыл бұрын

@Menschen Gegen 5G well, the girls of my age still have got some resistance to mobile devices :)

@wizard7314

3 жыл бұрын

I thought sharing mix tapes was just a meme haha

@Kobra7049

3 жыл бұрын

@@wizard7314 It wasn't a meme back then. This was when MP3 was first coming out, so CD was still a big thing.

@Kobra7049

3 жыл бұрын

@Newsbender She didn't have a smart phone then. Only a flip phone. Those were the good days. Lol

The graphics you made to illustrate your explanations are so good!

This video truly took me back to when I was a kid! I opened my ancient laptop with a light scribe drive and quickly ran into dependency hell getting label making software working, the good old days of installing software…

Fun fact: If you leave a lightscribe disc in the sunlight too long, they all end up with that picture from 4:17

@zUltraXO

5 жыл бұрын

lmfao

@Cheese_1337

5 жыл бұрын

Joshua Pearce hahahahaahahahahahahaha

@stevef6392

5 жыл бұрын

Coffee, meet monitor.

@fffUUUUUU

5 жыл бұрын

LOL

@boss_boy_

5 жыл бұрын

*_THAT IS A CURSED IMAGE YOU MUST RUN BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE_*

“and headphone jacks “ I love your brand of rapid fire passive aggressive abuse

@phs125

5 жыл бұрын

Sole reason I upvoted this video. ( I don't have the habit of upvoting )

@thatscienceguy9458

5 жыл бұрын

@@phs125 So you just upvote because you hate. Shows what type of a person you are. You really should go get a life.

@thatsciencedude4552

5 жыл бұрын

@@thatscienceguy9458 Don't bother. These type of people are so stupid that get off on bashing other things people like. Fanboyism at it's best. This is a sign of a low IQ and them being childish. Best to move on as they must hate their life so much they have to make fun of other people and things to make themselves feel better. They just need to grow up and we all know that won't happen. Don't worry they will die alone.

@phs125

5 жыл бұрын

@@thatsciencedude4552 but somehow bashing others for their comment is not childish? Appreciate the humour and move on..

@ViktorBerg

5 жыл бұрын

@@thatscienceguy9458 Wow, that came out of left field. Do you always make broad assumptions and generalizations?

Just your mention of the Lightscribe disc smell brought me back. I definitely have memories of taking a nice big sniff every time I cracked open the spindle.

Thanks for this awesome video! It certainly brought back fond memories! I had a LightScribe drive and loved it. Back in the day, I made tons of video and audio CDs and DVDs for friends and family. I wanted decorative labels, but somehow I could never get my printer aligned with my label software, so the printouts were always skewed. LightScribe saved me tons of frustration. (Yes, I could have simply used a marker, but for gifts that just looked too tacky to me.) I didn't mind the long print times and occasional snafus because it was still much less hassle than making a bajillion wasted paper labels. Now that CDs/ DVDs are no longer much of a thing, I send my friends and family streaming links instead. Somehow that's just not quite the same, though. PS: Back then I also had a Netbook that I loved. Thanks again for the memories!

Used to use LightScribe to label DVD for clients. Loved it! Looked a lot more professional then a sharpie or a dodgy paper label.

@SherrifOfNottingham

5 жыл бұрын

My sister messed with those full sized stickers that covered the whole disk. I had a tower with 5 or 6 burners on it. Charged a buck for each disk, buck fity for a DVD. Back in the day when people would keep giving mix disks to each other, I made a solid return on that tower.

@lobitome

5 жыл бұрын

It was a great idea that I wished would have stuck around for a while. I still occasionally will (try if it completes) burn a custom CD for road trips or such. Wish they would have had Blu-ray discs for lightscribe. I would use it more frequently. Still have a spindle of cd's & dvd's for lightscribe, and my portable blu-ray burner actually does lightscribe.

I actually had a job where we needed to provide 5~10 copies of custom professional DVDs to clients every week or so - LightScribe was definitely our preferred label option. Because of the time they took, we'd print them as soon as we possibly could, typically several days before the DVD content itself was ready to be burned. We had a couple LightScribe burners on computers that were otherwise being used, so we would simply start the printing process for a disc when we were getting ready to go to lunch or go home for the day. Due to typically 1 or 2 bad label burns, per client, we also ended up needing to print more labeled discs than we actually needed, which added to costs, but was still significantly less costly than other professional-looking options. For our purposes, LightScribe was almost perfect, but if you needed more than about 10 good labels a week, there were definitely better options! I only found out toward the end of my time in that job that you could re-burn them, but it helped on several occasions and was just downright pretty cool to do (I'm not sure why it made me happy, but it did). Thanks for the trip down memory lane!

Huge thanks for this video! I have a light scribe drive in an old HP laptop that was given to me. Not got around to using it, so this has been a great reminder and also very useful. ❤

Oh, the memories that this video brings me... Thank you for this video ❤

LightScribe was great!! It was a easy, professional-looking way to label a disc. I haven't had much luck getting adequate drivers for Win7, let alone Win10. Wish it would have survived!

I actually remember this. I only used it a few times, to make designs for my own band's demo CDs, but I always thought it was amazingly cool. It worked really well!

@rickfeith6372

4 жыл бұрын

Did you use Papyrus too?

@mrkitty777

4 жыл бұрын

Yes

@morsteen

4 жыл бұрын

Same here. Did our very first EP demo CDs. It was a cool feature.

@alexandera.1411

4 жыл бұрын

Also, picking a silver tone of the data layer contributed to a great demo CD.

Thank you so much for the wave of nostalgia. My parents actually had these I remember loving how the white and grey/silver looked as a young kid. I also think they were the last blank CDs my parents bought, because they were all I could find when I was old enough to start burning, so I saw them a lot.

I LOVED my Lightscribe burner. Thanks for this wonderful view back to the past!

9:18 "You pulled the tray out... why?" Made me laugh so hard! XD

@WarrenGarabrandt

3 жыл бұрын

It has to open a certain distance and then close again before it will recognize that a new disc has been inserted and try to read it.

@resneptacle

3 жыл бұрын

@@WarrenGarabrandt Usually the distance it travels when pressing the eject key (through the help of a spring or magnet) is enough, like it was in this case

@mavenfeliciano1710

3 жыл бұрын

As I watched, I thought there was a small piece of plastic on the right that was in the way to pull it straight up, then I saw the text. It had to go back to read it. I was viewing the video on my phone so it was a bit obscure.

I love this dude. He's so well-spoken and says the things I want to hear.

@notman2k7

3 жыл бұрын

Big gay al then

My very first laptop (HP Pavilion) had a LightScribe drive and I loved it. Yup it had a few issues but it did the job. I ended up burning about 120 discs for our school and also LightScribing them all with text etc. Took so long but everyone loved it.

This made my day. LightScribe brings so much memories Thank you for the awesome video

one of my favorite lost memories was a lightscribed picture of my dad and i on a mixtape he burned me. edit: my dad found it !

@JV-wl6ex

4 жыл бұрын

Mixdisc?? Haha!! I say tape all the time without thinking about it! Good job Dad! I’m sure he liked what you did with the program

@JosephMBoyer

4 жыл бұрын

I hear you bro, I converted all my families home movies from VHS to dvds with lightscribe images. it was awesome made 40 dvds total all were very unique. they are holding up to this day.

@Ancyker

4 жыл бұрын

@@JV-wl6ex people say mixtape for CDs still, hell even playlists

@themadlad_

4 жыл бұрын

YESSS that's beautiful, that's such a dad thing

@simeondermaats

3 жыл бұрын

We need an Imgur link, I do believe.

I loved lightscribe. I was the only person I know that used it though. Probably why it is gone sadly.

@GreetingEarthlings

5 жыл бұрын

Me too

@patrickmckeel9840

5 жыл бұрын

I’ve had computers with light scribe and never knew what it was or looked into it. I wish now I had looked into it.

@GarryNichols

5 жыл бұрын

Me too! sadly expensive now to get the discs

@drebone1986

5 жыл бұрын

I had it too, came bundle with my PC from Circuit City when they went out of business, hated it cause of the slow speed plus being so new back then I never knew when it was finished cause I never had something so slow, now I know it was my fault after this video for adding too much at once, for the record I never finished one under 30 minutes back then

@MarcKloos

5 жыл бұрын

me 2

I remember my dad making these for us in the 90s, I never really knew how they worked though, thanks for the nostalgia!

Absolutely loved LiteScribe!!

Man, you just don’t know how badly I want that CD with your face on it.

You actually made me sad, becouse LightScribe was one of things I really wanted to use back in the days when I had all the time and no money. Now when I dont have said time, but have the money (and I dont have any use for cd/dvd's) its.. gone. I missed on it. Damn.

Excellent and informative video. I had one of these in a laptop years ago, probably about 2004. Thought it was a great idea, then did one label and realized how incredibly slow it was. Last one I ever made. I felt deceived as nowhere did the marketing give a hint of the time involved. I was not making disks for others, just my own backups, so I did not mind the scribbled text.

A couple years late to comment on this, but I had a LightScribe burner many years ago, back when I got a brand new HP Media Center PC for college. I actually used it quite a bit and was totally about it. Then one day the drive stopped reading and burning and I moved on from the novelty. I'm glad I came across this video and channel as this clarified questions I actually had about this way back when, but long since forgot about. Great stuff!

Me: Did he seriously just write that in papyrus *writes the next line in comic sans" Me: OH GOOD it's on purpose

@SpydersByte

5 жыл бұрын

haha had the same thought :D

@ahums16

5 жыл бұрын

Why are those two fonts universally bashed? :P I've always heard it for comic sans but never heard any context.

@wordart_guian

5 жыл бұрын

ahums16 They are fine, but somewhat overused, and sometimes the context does not lend itself to such a font. Personnally, i love handwritten fonts, but you have to admit getting a convocation to national exams written in Chiller is disturbing. I mean, were They trying to be creepy? About exams? My old Vista PC had lightscribe, and It kept telling me to Try It, and I kept telling myself "wow this sounds awesome a shame I don't have the disk"

@noalb3108

5 жыл бұрын

@@wordart_guian No, they are not fine. they are the worst kind of "hand written" fonts: The kind that does not resemble actual hand writing in any way. that's why they are frowned upon. They are horribly designed fonts with unpleasant spacing, line weights, curves and, in Papyrus's case, texture. There are good looking "hand written" fonts out there, loads of them, and designers love them.

@wordart_guian

5 жыл бұрын

@@noalb3108 well, this is possible, but I wouldn't be so categoric with what handwriting should look like. I am fairly positive my 5th grade handwriting did not resemble handwriting tbh.

As flawed as LightScribe was, I wish it would have stuck around and had some time to improve. It was a really cool tech and despite its problems I actually did use it surprisingly frequently.

@mariomatovina4

5 жыл бұрын

I still have one blank lightscribe cd. I remember taking a VERY long time to draw the picture onto it.

@ClydeWarden

5 жыл бұрын

Great for running a small business. WAY more professional than paper labels. I still use them, have a stock of burners and disks for when clients need a physical media for proof of purchase (even when buying cloud software).

@jothain

5 жыл бұрын

@@ClydeWarden that's nice touch. I would appreciate effort if I'd see something like this.

@_Piers_

5 жыл бұрын

I assume if it had ever been popular that by now most of the problems would have been ironed out. I *assume* Blu-ray laser diodes are more powerful than DVDs, so faster or higher resolution would be possible. Or of course a second laser could have been added to really speed things up.

@jbdragon3295

5 жыл бұрын

Clyde Warden I used discs with a all white label built onto the disc. So it wouldn’t just come off like a paper label. I could pop into my epson printer and print directly onto the disc. I could get discs that were all white on the one side right down to the center hole. They were fantastic. I just don’t burn discs much these day. Generally I’m ripping discs to put on my NAS. But I could really make nice color labels on my disc where it looked professional. They would never peal off.

My dad bought and installed a lightscribe drive in our family computer around 2005 or so. He had slightly more patience for it than I did, and continued to use it to make labels for disks he burned backups of his digital camera photos onto for years.. I loved the idea, but hated how long it added to the already long process of burning a disk, so I only used it a few times.

I had a Lightscribe drive and used it for years, it was great.

I could listen Alec for 25 minutes even if he was going to talk about spoon. There's an interesting story behind anything which remains untold until Alec comes and fills the gaps. Alec, just talk about anything that comes into your mind, don't be afraid of if people might not be interested, that shouldn't stop you. I remember GFCI breakers video, which I thought I was not interested and I watched all video, turns out I was interested. Now waiting for Arc Fault Breakers and may be whole story behind US split phase system and US home electrical wiring and design. All good wishes!

Oh man! I remember 2007 😍 I was one of the only people in my high-school class with light scribe it blew some minds for sure

@EpixAndroid

5 жыл бұрын

Cameron D.F Chisholm Ditto, only I did the same thing 4 years later.

VERY impressed that you used typeface and font correctly @ 8:48. MS and Apple have a LOT to answer for in using the word "font" incorrectly to describe typeface. Now most people have no idea of the difference.

I loved my lightscribe DVD burner. A Sly soft little fox helped me backup many of my favorite previously purchased videos "back in the day" and Lightscribe helped add a little something extra to the experience.

My band burned CD-Rs with Lightscribe labels and used them as the _official limited edition CD release_ of our album (it was good enough, our focus was on vinyl anyway). Our album sleeve design was pale yellow (#FFFFB3 FTW! The _B3_ is an homage to Hammond) with detailing in mostly shades of grey, so Lightscribe discs were a perfect fit! I remember having to burn a bunch of CDs before a gig and forgetting to take into account the time it takes so I ended up bringing everything to work and "scribing" while "working". Still ended up with only about half of the amount of CDs I intended to make. Never got around to doing the rest so I probably have a couple of spindles of unused Lightscribe CD-Rs somewhere. It's a really cool technology, it was just introduced too late, when people were increasingly starting to use MP3 players instead of burning their own mix CDs.

I'm slightly embarrassed to admit that, despite these being what we regularly bought in my later high school and early uni years...I never knew you could burn a label on them. I just thought they'd figured out we all know the capacity of a disc, so they'd skip telling us and give us more space to write on.

@NicolaiSyvertsen

5 жыл бұрын

you also had the blanks with a paper like coating for use in inkjet printers. alec touched on paper labels but that was the adhesive kind and it was hard to apply it perfecly without misalignment and bubles.

@MrNateSPF

5 жыл бұрын

@@NicolaiSyvertsen I have a press that lines up the sticker type labels. I also have a Lightscribe, but IDK why I had troubles finding those disks even at peak.

@laboye

5 жыл бұрын

I actually had a spindle of discs like this from Big Lots of all places. CD-R on one side, plain reflective silver on the other (almost looked like a mastered CD on the label side). No idea what brand they were and I never found them again, but they sure were cool while I had them around.

I've enjoyed and used it a lot and even though I'm technically oriented and inquisitive, I have to say I was surprised at how much new I learned about technology from you. Your videos are well worth watching.

yet another time where i search for some forgotten tech and this channel has covered it, nice :)

I had one of these and burnt every disc I had with all my favorite music and labeled them with the cover of the artists in a collage on the face turned out great and still have all the discs

Love the Papyrus/Comic Sans combo! :D

@hecko-yes

5 жыл бұрын

but what about c o m i c ​ ​ p a p y r u s laughingsquid.com/comic-papyrus/

@Nitrxgen

5 жыл бұрын

+@@hecko-yes just kill me now

@tylerjames1716

5 жыл бұрын

Undertaile references? Lol

@trollenz

5 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@EmergencyTemporalShift

5 жыл бұрын

Wait, was that intentional? I thought it was just a coincidence.

I had a lightscribe drive in one of my PCs growing up and I never had any idea what it meant. It was just the replacement drive my dad happened to slot in at the time. I don't think any of us knew what it did let alone how it worked. Thanks for the video!!

Happy to see that the thumbnail is actually extracted from the video.

"back when they had optical drives... and phone jacks"

@drebone1986

5 жыл бұрын

Back when we had optical drives with the headphone jack built into it...and phone jacks, get it right 😂😂😂

@fsmoura

5 жыл бұрын

back when we had phone jacks with optical drives with phone jacks

@drebone1986

5 жыл бұрын

@@fsmoura 😂😂😂

Worst thing is when the Nero software crashes 15 minutes in to a Lightscribe label burn!

@edman79

3 жыл бұрын

Fuck. You just brought back my ptsd.

@Seethenhagen

3 жыл бұрын

That happened to me when I was trying to make a copy of my violin practice audio

@thereve

3 жыл бұрын

Goddamn it I felt that comment

@AndrewVaillant

2 жыл бұрын

I was a computer nublet who talked his parents into switching from Windows to Ubuntu. I know today why I could never get my lightscribe to work :(

@trashcompactorYT

2 жыл бұрын

fuck I hated Nero. I had completely erased that garbage software from my memory until I read this comment

Sick channel. So informative and well produced. This could be on TV.

You know why I wartch this channel? Not for all the smart stuff, but because you're such a delightful person. It's good to see and be around.

When making cd labels nothing beat a xy plotter armed with a sharpie, at least until faculty staff found out...

@38911bytefree

5 жыл бұрын

Or AVERY labels .... and you are done.

@Justchuck69

5 жыл бұрын

@@38911bytefree until you put the AVERY labels in a slot loading player in your car a few times and the paper label started to roll up at the edge resulting in not being able to eject the disk ! Then the fun would begin :-(

@HBC101TVStudios

5 жыл бұрын

Now that's a good one!

I'm 14 minutes into this and I kinda feel like this might be the most objectively useless video ever. I'm also endlessly fascinated by it (hence why I got 14 minutes in to make this remark), and I subscribed after seeing a video about traffic lights. Traffic lights. Who the hell cares about that? I do, even though I never thought I did. Thanks for stuff like this. You're doing a great job of illustrating the beauty and effort behind the forgotten and mundane.

@_Piers_

5 жыл бұрын

I think he should start doing the stupid face everyone does in thumbnails and add "OMG!! NOT CLICKBAIT!!!!!!!!" to every title. ....and not change the content at all, just to see what happens.

@epetubaa4773

5 жыл бұрын

Omg, Yes! I feel the same. Can someone summarize why it didn't succeed because I would really like to know but I'm not watching 20 minutes of babbling to know about it. Really shame. I remember this guy had good material some time ago. I mean this can be informative for some people but @Max Power you didn't deliver this time.

@Wonderouz

4 жыл бұрын

I agree

At the time the drive just came with the computer I bought. When I realized what it does I was so excited! Never even tried burning images but was always pretty happy with the text.

I had a Lightscribe drive for many years and I used it all the time. I remember having a whole binder of Lightscribe labeled media that I used for working on computers.

I used this in the Army for cheap back ups, was amazing, looked clean and nice.

@Sillimant_

3 жыл бұрын

I can't believe that at all

@trashtrash2169

2 жыл бұрын

Why? this isn't weird or unbelievable.

@trashtrash2169

2 жыл бұрын

Is it impossible for someone to have been in the army?

I ❤️ LightScribe! My handwriting sucks, LightScribe was not a "gimmick" to me. When I started to burn DVDs, LightScribe was an essential thing I had to have on Burners and discs. I still use it now.

I had a light scribe drive on my laptop and loved it, even with all the problems. for me, during ma grad work, it was nice to add a content list on the disk which became a pain with a pen. thanks for the video, nice to see how it worked.

Still have some lightscribed disks. I liked the tech. 😥

@michaelmiller367

4 жыл бұрын

would you like more.

@paulweston8184

4 жыл бұрын

@@michaelmiller367 I would!

@jantube358

4 жыл бұрын

Me too :)

@jcbc2004

4 жыл бұрын

Same here....

@JohannGambolputty22

3 жыл бұрын

It was the Rube Goldberg way of labeling a disc.

It wouldn’t be 2006 if it wasn’t comic sans

@JustinBeiberOffical

5 жыл бұрын

*Megalovania intensifies*

@nikodoge99

5 жыл бұрын

+Lucas Croft ... *_MEGALOVANIA INTENSIFIES_*

@deafmusician2

5 жыл бұрын

Why does everyone hate Comic Sans???

@wordart_guian

5 жыл бұрын

XtremeBudgetMusician I for one don't hate It. Only sometimes the context doesn't lends itself to the use of a light-hearted looking font.

@nexxusty

5 жыл бұрын

Body Massage Machine GO!!!

I just bought a bunch of older PCs for cheaps and nearly all have lightscribes. Never heard of them till I heard another KZreadr talk about them briefly. Cool stuff !

I can't believe this! I owned and built many systems as a hobby back then and was not aware this was a feature of lightscibe CD burners back then. How in the world I wasn't aware even after the many many hours spent building and tweeking.

I totally remember LightScribe! I remember the slogan too. I used to be into filmmaking back in elementary school, and I would burn my "movies" onto LightScribe disks.

I was a DJ back when using CDs to DJ was standard. Lightscribe was a Godsend back then.

I really appreciated that smile on one of the CDs.

Honestly i wouldnt notice the mentioned quality decrease because of the phone if it wasn't mentioned, it's just a good image lol Gr8 production as always, love this channel.

Should I ironically use Papyrus and Comic sans in the video? 93% Of course 4% Good grief, no 3% What do you mean, ironically?

@MegaTechpc

5 жыл бұрын

I've always liked Papyrus. Fight me!

@tristan6509

5 жыл бұрын

Y not both? laughingsquid.com/comic-papyrus

@_Piers_

5 жыл бұрын

@@tristan6509 Well I'm going to use that for everything now! :)

@tristan6509

5 жыл бұрын

@@_Piers_ wish there were one with impact also included tho

@rich1051414

5 жыл бұрын

Papyrus reeks of incompetence trying too hard. Pretending to be fancy and classy but actually coming off as lame. Comic sans reeks of incompetence unable to take anything seriously. Like a 9 year olds MySpace page or the churches website thrown together by bored housewife who doesn't know what they are doing. It's not the fonts' fault... it is the abuse of them by incompetent people that ruined it. It was mostly solidified by my generation(born in 1984). The internet used to be a very ugly place with no power tools to make professional looking websites,you needed to be able to do it manually from HTML, the tools all made generic repetitive garbage with only a handful of universal fonts, and specific ones repeatedly were used to produce very unprofessional and childish things. To be honest, it was precisely because they were good fonts which caused them to get overused, abused, and ruined for everyone. Loved undertale, btw. I love that they made their personalities related to the negative connotations you get from seeing the fonts :P

I still use LightScribe CDs and DVDs and LOVE the way that they work!! I cannot find a better way to label discs -- paper labels are insane, and my handwriting is poor at its best. Thanks much for such an informative presentation!!

@fish_bacon

5 жыл бұрын

I still have 2 perfectly working Lightscribe drives. Is there a way to burn the images on WIndows 10? (also where the hell do you buy the media nowadays??)

@fenguri

5 жыл бұрын

@@fish_bacon I buy the media on ebay. And as far as writing from Windows 10, I typically use other software.

Litterally the most respectable likeable guy on youtube, this dude got no enemies, great video!

I loved lightscribe! was a lot of fun making my own CDs with nice labels

I made a mix CD for my gf years ago. I Light Scribed a photo of her and I together on the face of it. It looked cool as Hell.

@unnamedchannel1237

4 жыл бұрын

Bet you got some special treatment after that one

@danfuerthgillis4483

4 жыл бұрын

@@unnamedchannel1237He's probably still getting that special treatment to this day except now she owns him (speaking metaphorically) lol

@unnamedchannel1237

4 жыл бұрын

Danfuerth Gillis only if a shovel was involved ?

@danfuerthgillis4483

4 жыл бұрын

@@unnamedchannel1237 LMFAO marriage is a no win situation, you know concessions have to be made and it's always on one side......lol

@RockinEnabled

3 жыл бұрын

@@danfuerthgillis4483 that's a lopsided perspective. A sensible man wouldn't marry if all it was about was him making concessions lol

I just looked at my DVD burner, and would you believe it has the LightScribe logo right there on the front of it. I had no idea it had this capability!

@ZekePolarisBSH

5 жыл бұрын

@@H3wastooshort Fake hacker.

@ZekePolarisBSH

5 жыл бұрын

I don't but my drive can do the same thing.

@ZekePolarisBSH

5 жыл бұрын

@JimNS that was such a fail. Never had that issue here luckily. For me they only fail at giving support. I know this because i had free 4 year support from them.

@Sandriell

5 жыл бұрын

I have a blu-ray burner that even has the Lightscribe logo on it!

I picked up a working LightScribe drive at a thrift store, not knowing what it was specifically meant for, I just wanted a working DVD writer. Thanks for telling me what it really is.

I had a Lightscribe drive in my first laptop. I loved it. A gamechanger was learning that you could run the disc through multiple times to increase the image contrast. Doing it in a photo editor first would be faster though 😂 I still have the laptop and I might even have some blank discs somewhere....