I suggest you join the 40% of the world who has dropped Internet Explorer and started using Mozilla Firefox as their browser. The only time I use IE these days is to check Outlook Web where I work during the day. MS has limited non-IE access to Outlook servers. Those dirty you-know-whats.
www.getfirefox.com and dump IE (and all it's holes and errors) forever. Firefox is to the 2000s what Netscape was to the 1990s.
I do not suggest DVD+R DL media for archiving. I have doubts about the longevity of the second data layer. Stick to single-layer media for archival backup. I only use DVD+R DL for video projects. And even then, I save all the project source files to a small stack of single-layer DVD+R ot DVD-R.
DVD-R DL are ill-suited for video. The way data is written to the tracks, as well as how the disc is seen by the players, is not agreeable with DVD-Video. Stick to DVD+R DL media, and Verbatim is the ONLY viable choice right now. RICOH, CMC and RITEK are the only other DL manufacturers, and their media is pathetic in quality, making expensive coasters.
In all honesty, single-layer DVD is good for off-site backups (take to another house, your office in a drawer, leave with a sibling/parent/son/daughter). For on-site backups, just use a large external USB2 hard drive. I bought myself a 500GB hard drive for $115 about 3-4 months ago, for this exact purpose. Valuable archives and duplicated with my parents, and some are triplicate in a desk drawer at work. 4GB holds a lot of data, even uncompressed digital scans/photos.
I have Lightscribe at work and on my personal laptop. It's a gimmick. The discs are expensive, and it reminds me of the very aged Daguerreotype (predecessor to modern film printing). Here's an example of a Dagurerotype, if you've never seen one:
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It's a muddy, goldish image with limited contrast. It's a neat effect that will get boring after the 5th time you do it usually. You can always buy an inkjet color disc printer. Of course, I always says that a disc is the least-viewed piece of a disc package (at most, 10 seconds on average). Just use a Sharpie marker and write on it with clean handwriting. I think more effort should go into the DVD menu and the DVD case artwork, both of which receive far more viewing time (several minutes each, on average).
That's just my opinion on things, having tried them all, and having produced DVDs since 2001. You might notice how some commercial DVDs have gotten simpler on-disc printing in recent years, not more complex or even to the same intricacy as it was at the peak of new adoption a couple years ago. Only a very few discs have fancy printing still, generally items with a heavy fan base (He-Man DVD box sets come to mind).
Several companies seem to have taken the position that LS was a gimmick, and it does seem Pioneer is one of them. I do not recall seeing a LS-enabled Pioneer burner.
DVD+R DL has largely sorted out its issue in the past 12-18 months. The DVD FORMATS page on this site is one of the pages that now has out-of-date information. As you may have noticed, the forum has some notes about a site upgrade in progress. It's been in progress for 6 months now.
DVD-R DL did not rush their product, but they still made mistakes in the lead-in. The disc should have been ID'd as DVD-ROM instead of the largely unknown DVD-R DL type. DVD+R DL can now be booktyped to DVD+R DL in most DVD drives, and many drives (Pioneer is one) auto-booktypes DVD+R DL to DVD-ROM. This brings the compatibility range well in the 75% or greater range. Verbatim media and burner write strategies have also advanced a good bit.
I'm still not done with the slideshow reviews. I had to finish a major project that took 3 extra unplanned days.