Lite-On IT to launch 12x DVD Dual this month

7 Apr, 2004 at 12:40pm ET Article published in Tech

Despite an expected short life cycle, [b]Lite-On[/b] will start to offer 12x DVD Dual burners later this month.

[blockquote]In addition to 12x DVD Dual, Lite-On IT plans to offer 8x DVD+RW DL (dual-layer) in mid-April at the earliest, with the timing hinging on the availability of compatible double-layer DVD discs, Gong noted.[/blockquote]
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Comments

7 Apr 2004 ~ 2:39pm Justin WOuld these dual layer discs copy straight from DVD movies? Sounds like those copyright people are going to love this...
7 Apr 2004 ~ 3:51pm TheBaron i love lite-on, and need a dvd burner. these two sound like a winning combination to me
7 Apr 2004 ~ 4:42pm gtghm yea but in 3 months 24X will be the norm with 32 ready to be released. If you can wait 6 more moths we should be seeing 40's and 52's soon. Its just like they did with the CD burners, once the speeds started increasing it wasn't no time before 52x's were selling for less than 50 bucks...

I'm like you... I want one but I think I'll try and hold out for the upper end of the speed scale...

"g"
7 Apr 2004 ~ 8:09pm drasnor How fast is a 52x DVD burner? Isn't that pushing ATA spec?

-drasnor
7 Apr 2004 ~ 8:36pm gtghm

drasnor wrote:

How fast is a 52x DVD burner? Isn't that pushing ATA spec?

-drasnor

That is probably so because we haven't seen any increas in speeds of CD's or CDR drives. ATA limits could be one reason although I read that above 52x the media is the problem. According to one article I read a while back much beyond 52x and the cds want to disinergrate/explode in the drive...

"g"
7 Apr 2004 ~ 9:08pm drasnor Going by 16x DVD= 22160KB/sec, a 52x DVD would be moving data at a rate of 72020KB/sec, or roughly 70MB/sec. You're going to need an 80-conductor cable for this one .

-drasnor
8 Apr 2004 ~ 3:39am EyesOnly Perhaps we will finaly see sata optical drives. Then controller speed wont be a problem. But i have heard that discs can fly apart when you get close to 52x and above so it prolly wont go faster than that. I could take 32x max anyday as long as i don't have to worry about discs breaking in the drive.
8 Apr 2004 ~ 11:56am TheBaron i'll probably pick up one of the 8x dual layer drives, cause im eating up HD space and it'd be nice to back things up (cd's are far too small)