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Adding LightScribe functionality to the HP DVD Movie Writer
LightScribe is a technology developed by HP that allows you to label specially-coated disks with the same drive you use to write the data. It requires new drives and special media and is as simple as burn, flip, burn. It produces professional quality monochrome labels with a choice of background colors. HP offered LightScribe DVD drives as internal and external models known as the dvd640i and dvd640e respectively as well as follow-on models. A version of the DVD Movie Writer is not available with a LightScribe drive so the only way to get it is to purchase a new DVD drive. The software suite that shipped with the 640 series drives was very similar to the software that shipped with the HP DVD Movie Writers and both Showbiz and RecordNow applications will include LightScribe labeling capability. The main problem is that the HP DVD Transfer Wizard is missing on the installation disks so once you install from the dvd640i CD, it would upgrade all your software, but the HP Transfer Wizard would be missing. However, there is a way to enable it. To do this, you should copy all the files off of the dvd640 Install CD #1 into a folder on your hard drive. Then you need to edit one file called Setup.ini located in the Arcsoft_Showbiz folder. In this file, you'll see a line with the following text:
CmdLine=-CPSSLand -0CAP -1LS -0K2
You can use Notepad or Wordpad to remove the -0K2 from that line above and save the file. Then using RecordNow, create a new installation CD #1 by dragging these files and folders to the 'create data disk' panel of RecordNow and write the new CD. Then you should uninstall RecordNow and Showbiz and reinstall them from the new installation CD you just created. You should also install the SureThing SE Labeler from the CD #2 that comes with the dvd640 to get full labeling design flexibility. After you've done this, the HP DVD Transfer Wizard won't be in the 'umbrella application' when you launch HP DVD, but can be accessed from the top button on the DVD Movie Writer, or from this menu location:
Start->Arcsoft Showbiz 2 DVD->HP Video Transfer Wizard
If you want to make it more convenient, you can create a copy of that shortcut and then drag it to your desktop.
The dvd640 will work fine with the DVD Movie Writer whether it's installed as an internal drive or an external drive. For those who are adventurous, you could even replace the drive inside the HP DVD Movie Writer with a dvd640i. The procedures for disassembling the HP DVD Movie Writer are shown here. However, if you do replace the drive inside the Movie Writer with a 640i (or any other drive), the drive activity light on the front panel of the Movie Writer will no longer work. The firmware in the Movie Writer DVD drives has a special feature that allows the LED on the drive's front panel to be sensed from the IDE connector and most drives won't have that feature.
The advantages of upgrading to an HP dvd640 drive would be that you'll get 16X DVD recording speed (vs. 4x max on the dc3000), DVD-R/RW media capability, DVD double layer recording, LightScribe support, as well as support for Dolby digital audio.
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