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Verbatim Announces World's First Colour-background LightScribe DVDRs

Verbatim Australia, the storage media producer known for offering the widest range of premium-quality LightScribe media, announced the immediate availability of the world's first colour-background LightScribe 16x DVD+R media. The new 4.7GB LightScribe DVD+Rs are available in vibrant shades of red, orange, yellow, blue and green in addition to the original gold colour. Verbatim has already started shipping the discs in the Australia/NZ market in 25-pack spindles which include five discs of each colour.

The richly coloured DVDRs are produced using LightScribe Media Version 1.2 coating technology on the label side for enhanced image contrast and faster label printing. The data side of the discs incorporates the innovative technologies that deliver the premium quality features consumers have come to expect from the Verbatim brand-- high reliability, stability and longevity with high performance and broad compatibility.

With a rainbow of background colours to choose from, consumers and businesses can burn customised LightScribe labels for their videos and multimedia presentations that will give them a professional look.

Verbatim's new coloured LightScribe DVD+Rs were specifically designed for LightScribe-compatible drives and the latest software licensed by Hewlett-Packard Company (HP). According to HP, approximately 50 million LightScribe-enabled drives are currently installed and that number is growing at 4 to 5 million per month. Drives with the direct-disc labelling technology now account for approximately 25 percent of all half-height and 12.7mm DVD writers being manufactured. By combining Verbatim's LightScribe DVDRs with these drives, consumers can use the same optical disc drive laser to burn content on the data side of the disc and to produce silkscreen-quality black text and graphics labels on the label side of the discs. In addition to making the recorded discs more memorable, the various colours of the media can be used to sort and display a collection.

Coloured LightScribe DVDR discs are label-compatible with all LightScribe-enabled drives. For optimised labelling, Verbatim recommends that users always upgrade their LightScribe system software to the latest version. Software and label gallery downloads are available at www.lightscribe.com.

To ensure that the discs LightScribe users produce can be played by the broadest number of CD/DVD playback devices, Verbatim's complete family of LightScribe media is fully compatible with all current CD-R, DVD-R and DVD+R standards.

Availability
Verbatim LightScribe Colour-background 16X DVD+R media in 25-packs are now available through leading retailers, Internet resellers and Verbatim distributors. Recommended Retail pricing is $29.95 (part number #96432). Colour LightScribe discs in DVD-R format will be available later this year. Verbatim also offers the original gold-background LightScribe 16X DVD+R media in 10, 20 and 30-packs, as well as LightScribe 16X DVD-R media in 30-packs and 52x LightScribe CD-R media in a variety of spindles and slim cases.

About Verbatim
Verbatim Corporation, a Mitsubishi® Kagaku Media Company, is an international organisation that develops and markets innovative, high-quality products for storing, moving and using digital content. Known for its leadership in the removable storage media and related accessories markets, the company provides reliable, unique technologies and products that are highly sought after and broadly distributed worldwide. For more information, contact Verbatim Australia at 6 Weir Street, Glen Iris. VIC 3146, t. (03) 9823-0999, f. (03) 9824-7011; or email marketing@verbatim.com.au.