Where have they disappeared and why are they extortionate? fack
the dvd's are relatively ok pricewise but want the cd's for some nice clean burns for PS1, PC, audiocds :/
the cd are out of stock on amazon
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Can't be hard to DIY the laseretching layer though lol. I'm thinking thin layer of thermoplast, spayed on in lightly evaporating solvent.
I use UHU stick glue for priming 3D plates, because it is actually thermoplast cement, which means PVC solved in some kind of ketone gel, mostly methyl ethyl gel or something along those lines I would expect. The formula is not public that I know of though.
Buy a UHU stick, cut off a tiny bit, solve it in a lightly evaporating ketone solvent like acetone, put it in a little spray bottle, and spray regular blank CD's with it very very lightly so that a light frost of PVC forms on the face.
I actually don't know how lightscribe works, but I would bet that it's just low power laser etching on a thin thermoplast cement layer, so I would bet that the UHU trick would work.
Any specialists/chemists want to chime in maybe and give their opinion on how this would work?
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Lightscibe discs are coated with a special dye that changes color when hit by 780 nm infrared laser light.
Source: https://www.google.com/patents/US7172991
The laser in those drives is still very weak compared to a true laser etching machine.
Cool, so it's probably not persistent, because 780 nm is in the natural spectrum. It also means that it's just plain heat-sensítive paint. That's a disappointement to be honest from an engineering standpoint, because that paint works through energy absorption, and that doesn't seem like such a great concept in a slowly rotating closed plastic environment with crucial systems nearby.
Isn't hard to replicate either though, in fact it's even more simple, you can get heat-sensitive dye everywhere for really cheap, it's used in toys and in colour changing paints and foils for cars.
Imagine how many millions of CD's you could prep with something like this:
Oh those? I seriously have 300 of these fucking things LOL I got them all for 10 bucks at a garage sale.
Brag about it.
Just got my TS-L633 in the post. The burn I've just created is sub par...
Burnt the disc twice. Think I have to tweak with photoshop (or GIMP) neither of which I've used properly to make the image pop
Says the GPU hoarder who can get a 7950 for 10 dollars.
Yeah, a GeForce 7950 GT. $10 is a ripoff for that card though.
