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LaCie 16X LIGHTSCRIBE DL D2 EXT DVDRW FW w/ Toast Titanium ( 300786 ) | List Price: $209.99
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Platform: Mac OS X
Brand: LaCie
Binding: Electronics
Warranty: 1 year warranty
Features: - Professional, silkscreen-quality, lasting labels
- Expansive 8.5GB digital storage capacity
- Create custom designs with text and photos
- Laser etched from your LaCie DVD burner
Slow DVD-R speed limits this burner. [Posted on 2005-05-01]
The new technology to allow for the Lightscribe feature actually slows down this DVD burner! DVD-R speeds are limited to 8X. So, if speed is an issue, look to another burner without Lightscribe to get DVD-R at 16X. If Lightscribe is more important, then go with this one. But beware of what you're getting. I was disappointed to discover I had a crippled DVD burner for the sake of Lightscribe! I'm returning it.
Ad copy wrong [Posted on 2005-09-08]
Despite the product description, this unit is FireWire only, no USB connections.
works ok in general [Posted on 2005-09-09]
did not do as well as plextor. the plextor i have, which has firewire and usb not just firewire (though you can get the la cie with both), burned a dvd on an old computer while this one couldnt, tho i had to use 16x media to do it on the plextor. it may just be the roxio 7 program i have. i dont know. both worked about the same on a g4 apple.
Since I wrote this, my Plextor no longer PLAYS Dvds, nor burns cds (though it does burn dvds). The La Cie still works in every respects.
Using it with iDVD is tricky [Posted on 2005-09-21]
I recently bought one of the LaCie DVD burners with Lightscribe, in order to burn DVDs that I had created using iDVD on my Macintosh. However, every time I tried burning a disc I would get an error message. I spoke to LaCie's customer service who said "We don't support iDVD, only Toast. Call Apple." I was not very pleased with this response. Since LaCie markets heavily to Mac users, and iDVD is the main program for creating DVDs on the Mac, I was surprised at this lack of support. I called Apple, who basically said that it sounded like a problem with the DVD burner. Since I had tried this on two different computers, I agreed. I was ready to return the unit when I did some further Internet searching. Turns out that there is a simple solution for using iDVD: in iDVD, after you're done assembling the DVD, go to "Save as disc image" (under File menu). This creates a disk image on your desktop (can take a few hours). When it's done, open the disk image, make sure it works (using DVD player), then use Toast to copy the disk image to a DVD. Works well.
I'm surprised that the Tech support at LaCie didn't know enough about their burners to tell me this!
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