Technology Connections S4 E35 - LightScribe: HP's Clever Twist on the CD Burnermovie

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Technology Connections S4 E35 - LightScribe: HP's Clever Twist on the CD Burner

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I remember when LightScribe was first marketed, and let me tell you I thought it was *the* *coolest* *thing* to ever happen. Burning labels with lasers? No way! Well, it worked amazingly well. LightScribe wasn’t without its flaws, though, and in this video we’ll discuss a bit of its history, how it worked, and why it wasn’t a runaway success.

Creator	Alec Watson
Actor	Alec Watson
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Laserdisc: An Introduction
Thrift Store Hi-Fi: Some tips and tricks
Laserdisc's Failure: What Went Wrong
Chevy Bolt EV: Winter Range and Performance (Chicago winter)
Laserdisc: Features, Follies, & Evolution
Faking It: The Obviously Dubbed Telephone Ring
A Short Project Involving LEDs, a Fish Tank, and some Laziness
DVD: The Death Knell of Laserdisc
Sony's Clever but Flawed PlayStation Copy Protection--And How They Might Have Fixed It
The CD Player with a Robot Inside: Pioneer CLD-M301
These Are Not Pixels: Revisited
The Weird Typewriter-Computer Hybrid: Smith Corona PWP-3200
The LED Traffic Light and the Danger of "But Sometimes!"
Macrovision: The Copy Protection in VHS
MUSE Hi-Vision Laserdisc: The Blu-ray of 1994
Chevy Bolt EV Summer Range Test
The High Pressure Sodium Light: Ubiquitous, effective, but good?
The LED's Challenge to High Pressure Sodium
The Not-So-Secret Secret Elevators of the Haunted Mansion
The Most Common EV Charging Misconception
Betamovie: Sony's Terrible (But Ingenious) Camcorder
The Senseless Ambiguity of North American Turn Signals
Sound By Numbers: The Rise of Digital Sound
Nyquist-Shannon; The Backbone of Digital Sound
The GFCI/RCD: A Simple but Life-Saving Protector
The Compact Disc: An Introduction
Dissecting the CD Player: How to Turn Shiny Plastic into Music
LED Printers: The Common Printing Tech You Haven't Heard Of
An Oscilloscope Bonus: 20+ Minutes of Poking Around a CD player
CDs: More to Talk About (Sony vs. Philips)
TC Projects: Lead-Acid Battery Backup
CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, Books of Red, Blue, Purple, Beige, Orange, Scarlet...
The Ubiquitous Sound That You May Have Never Noticed
LightScribe: HP's Clever Twist on the CD Burner
LED Experiments: Making Holiday Lights Less Garish
Closed Captioning: More Ingenious than You Know
The Superheterodyne Radio: No really, that's its name