The Edge
26th September 2003, 11:38
The German website PCWelt.de has posted a report from the Computex show in Taipei with interesting information about coming DVD writers. Here is a short summary of their article in English:
* The DVD+R/RW format is likely to become the dominating format in 2004 according to most drive and media manufacturers.
* Lite-On will introduce an 8x DVD writer, the LDW-811S, in late October. A 12x model could follow as early as in the end of Q1 2004.
* AOpen will introduce a 12x DVD+R/RW writer in the beginning of 2004.
* 16x writers could appear in 2004 and will be the max speed for DVD burners.
* CMC, Ritek and an unamed Japanese manufacturer will start mass production of 8x DVD+R media in mid October.
* Sony has developed a dual layer DVD+R blank but it will likely never reach production stage because the drives needed to burn it will be too expensive.
You can read complete article in German here (http://www.pcwelt.de/news/hardware/34231/index.html) and a Babelfish translation here (http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/urltrurl?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pcwelt.de%2Fnews%2Fhardware%2F34231%2Findex.html&lp=de_en&tt=url). Personally I doubt 12x DVD writers will show up before mid 2004 but on the other hand 6 months ago I didn't think 8x models would be launched before Q4 this year.
Source: CDfreaks (http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/8051)
I like the last point made there......dual layer DVD+R blank discs :)
Edge
* The DVD+R/RW format is likely to become the dominating format in 2004 according to most drive and media manufacturers.
* Lite-On will introduce an 8x DVD writer, the LDW-811S, in late October. A 12x model could follow as early as in the end of Q1 2004.
* AOpen will introduce a 12x DVD+R/RW writer in the beginning of 2004.
* 16x writers could appear in 2004 and will be the max speed for DVD burners.
* CMC, Ritek and an unamed Japanese manufacturer will start mass production of 8x DVD+R media in mid October.
* Sony has developed a dual layer DVD+R blank but it will likely never reach production stage because the drives needed to burn it will be too expensive.
You can read complete article in German here (http://www.pcwelt.de/news/hardware/34231/index.html) and a Babelfish translation here (http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/urltrurl?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pcwelt.de%2Fnews%2Fhardware%2F34231%2Findex.html&lp=de_en&tt=url). Personally I doubt 12x DVD writers will show up before mid 2004 but on the other hand 6 months ago I didn't think 8x models would be launched before Q4 this year.
Source: CDfreaks (http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/8051)
I like the last point made there......dual layer DVD+R blank discs :)
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