Technology Connections
Season 4 Episode 35 - LightScribe: HP's Clever Twist on the CD Burner
2015
Documentary, Comedy
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.
Episodes in Season 4
1
Roller Coaster Safety: How to Manage Too Many Trains at Once
2
Laserdisc: An Introduction
3
Thrift Store Hi-Fi: Some tips and tricks
4
Laserdisc's Failure: What Went Wrong
5
Chevy Bolt EV: Winter Range and Performance (Chicago winter)
6
Laserdisc: Features, Follies, & Evolution
7
Faking It: The Obviously Dubbed Telephone Ring
8
A Short Project Involving LEDs, a Fish Tank, and some Laziness
9
DVD: The Death Knell of Laserdisc
10
Sony's Clever but Flawed PlayStation Copy Protection--And How They Might Have Fixed It
11
The CD Player with a Robot Inside: Pioneer CLD-M301
12
These Are Not Pixels: Revisited
13
The Weird Typewriter-Computer Hybrid: Smith Corona PWP-3200
14
The LED Traffic Light and the Danger of "But Sometimes!"
15
Macrovision: The Copy Protection in VHS
16
MUSE Hi-Vision Laserdisc: The Blu-ray of 1994
17
Chevy Bolt EV Summer Range Test
18
The High Pressure Sodium Light: Ubiquitous, effective, but good?
19
The LED's Challenge to High Pressure Sodium
20
The Not-So-Secret Secret Elevators of the Haunted Mansion
21
The Most Common EV Charging Misconception
22
Betamovie: Sony's Terrible (But Ingenious) Camcorder
23
The Senseless Ambiguity of North American Turn Signals
24
Sound By Numbers: The Rise of Digital Sound
25
Nyquist-Shannon; The Backbone of Digital Sound
26
The GFCI/RCD: A Simple but Life-Saving Protector
27
The Compact Disc: An Introduction
28
Dissecting the CD Player: How to Turn Shiny Plastic into Music
29
LED Printers: The Common Printing Tech You Haven't Heard Of
30
An Oscilloscope Bonus: 20+ Minutes of Poking Around a CD player
31
CDs: More to Talk About (Sony vs. Philips)
32
TC Projects: Lead-Acid Battery Backup
33
CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, Books of Red, Blue, Purple, Beige, Orange, Scarlet...
34
The Ubiquitous Sound That You May Have Never Noticed
35
LightScribe: HP's Clever Twist on the CD Burner
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36
LED Experiments: Making Holiday Lights Less Garish
37
Closed Captioning: More Ingenious than You Know
38