Product Description

Record professional-quality, personalized DVDs with your LaCie d2 DVD?RW Drive and Toast Titanium recording software. With this dual format drive and Toast 6 Titanium, Mac OS X users can store and archive as much as four hours of high-quality DVD video, up to 16 hours of VHS video or up to 8.5GB of data, music or photos on a single double layer DVD+R disc. This powerful drive features innovative LightScribe labeling technology, which burns custom, silkscreen-quality, precise images directly onto your discs using the very same laser that burns data.System Requirements: Single Layer recording: Mac OS 9.1 and 10.1.2 or laterDouble Layer recording: 10.2.3 or laterLightScribe Printing: 10.3.2 or later

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #71311 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: LaCie
• Model: 300786
• Platform: Mac OS X
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 7.70 pounds

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

Customer Reviews

Using it with iDVD is tricky
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!

Slow DVD-R speed limits this burner.
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
Despite the product description, this unit is FireWire only, no USB connections.