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LaCie 16X LIGHTSCRIBE DL D2 EXT DVDRW FW w/ Toast Titanium ( 300786 )

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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!

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.

This product works effectively and produces surprisingly professional results however you're going to be waiting a looooong time for those results. It takes a lot longer to burn a label than to burn the data.

Despite the product description, this unit is FireWire only, no USB connections.

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.