The new HP DVD/CD burners can use their built-in lasers to etch a high-rez, monochrome image right into the surface of the disc, obviating the need for printing labels and sticking them onto the platter. They're due in six months, will cost $10 more than current DVD/CD burners, and will require special media that "will cost about a dime more than today's discs" — no word on whether "today's discs" are the premium CD blanks that go for $1 or more, or the el-cheapo ones you buy in hundred-packs for $3 through web-specials, though I suspect the former, since HP has almost certainly locked up production of these discs through patents…
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