lightscribe options are nice,, and id also say sony is a better brand of dvd burners out there as for liteon its ok but im not so happy with mine and if you search the net for users that use lite on,, youll find a good few ppl out there that have lite ons to burn dvds arnt really happy with them, i need my liteon reflashed because i hate the way its working, no matter what dvd media disks i use to burn with, im still getting the same problem,, like on movie back ups, it always gets 3/4 ways through the movie and it freezes up on alot of frames and to me that sucks,, ive tried sony, philips hypermedia and us digital,,, and the only one that works great is us digital,,, now philips and sony are great brands of media and they arnt working so well in my lite on dvd burner,, so if i were you id stay clear of the liteon dvd burner brand, but thats just my opinion,, my next purchase will be a sony