are there dvd-r dl lightscribe?

[m-man]

Hey, i was looking for some are there dvd-r dl lightscribe discs, but all i can find are dvd+r dl lightscribe,
will those work in dvd players?, i have always used -r for dvd video discs.

why arn't there any are there dvd-r dl lightscribe?


thanks

[jman98]

Most modern DVD players will play DVD+R discs fine. However, DL media may not play correctly on some older players. I have seen players that will simply stop playing the DL disc once it hits the layer break.

Depending on how old/crappy your DVD player, you may need to bitset when burning any +R discs. Do some research to see what this is. Again, newer DVD players don't need this and some burners won't let you do it.

Verbatim DVD+R DL discs are the ONLY reliable DL available. Period. It's a long story, but in my opinion the DVD-R DL discs are quite a bit inferior to the DVD+R DL discs in terms of technology and they cost a LOT more than +R DL discs. My best guess is that it's a lot more complicated to produce DVD-R DL discs than DVD+R DL discs. If Verbatim doesn't make Lightscribe DVD-R DL discs, then they probably aren't being made by anyone. Verbatim doesn't see DVD-R DL discs in anything I can find larger than a 3 pack. They sell DVD+R DL discs by the spindle. The manufacturing of DVD-R DL Lightscribe discs is probably just not worth it. I'd guess that such discs might easily cost $4-5 each. Do you really want to pay that much?

Finally, I used to use Lightscribe and I don't recommend it. Even at the darkest setting possible, the burns really are pretty marginal. Every Lightscribe drive I have owned has malfunctioned at some point. DL burning seems to fail first on them followed by potential failures in burning single layer DVDs. The prices for media and printers that can print to discs have fallen a lot and the results are so much better that I gave up using Lightscribe and switched to printing labels.

[ranchhand]

Regarding designation of Lightscribe disks, I agree. Regarding the quality of the graphic burn, I discovered that the burn program you use makes a huge difference in the finished output. I use Droppix and it's great out of several I tried. Another hint: move your graphic into a good bitmap editor (I use Photoshop, but admittedly that's overkill). Adjust your brightness down to deep, then move the contrast slider high (heavy contrast). The result looks terrible if you were going to print it. Then save and bring it into your burn program. You will be amazed at the great quality of your burn. Instead of the "washed-out", bland look it will have great definition in sepia tones.