[DesertRidgeline]

I ended up having to re-record all my home burnt CD's to lightscribe discs because all my old CD's had the stomper type of labels (adhesive) stuck on them since my old car never had a CD player in it (I used an Ipaq handheld computer with a cassette adapter) it was okay to use them for the computer.

I've seen a lot of radios that have been replaced due to jammed CD's in them and the majority of them so far have been home burned cd's. Whether or not they had adhesive labels on them or not I don't know.

THe new software for the LIghtscribe does a nice job in graytones. It's far darker with more contrast than the earlier versions of it. And the media is now almost on the same pricing level as non lightscribe CD's. Overall I now love the lightscribe burned labels. I adopted the technology when it first came out and still have a huge spindle of CD's that I never used because the quality was pretty poor IMO when it first came out where as now, the "best" setting actually produces a nice label. The only real poor quality that I find with the lightscribe labels now is if the background is black then it produces a streaky black so I try to avoid designing lables that have pure black backgrounds.

TIp for lightscribe users: If you don't feel your cd is coming out with enough contrast, then burn the label twice and it will be with substantially more contrast. Nero allows you to set how many times you wish to burn the label (that was smart of them) and even with the new drivers, I still set Nero to burn 2 labels, and it gives some nice contrast on the burned labels.