‘First’ 20x DVD burner
p2pnet.net News:- Lite-On IT is launching what it claims to be the world’s first 20x DVD burners, says Digi Times.
“Lite-On IT has launched two super multi models, the LH-20A1P and the LH-20A1H, both of which feature 20x write-once DVD+R/-R, 12x write DVD-RAM,” it says. “The LH-20A1H also supports LightScribe.”
With first shipments aimed chiefly at the retail market, volume production will begin next month, says the story, adding:
“The mainstream DVD burners in the market are 16x and 18x models. First-tier ODD makers, such as Sony, NEC and TSST, also have plans to launch 20x DVD burners, but as 18x models have been on the market for less than half a year, the makers do not want to make 18x models look like transitional products, industry sources said.
“Their 20x DVD burners will not enter volume production until the first quarter of 2007, the industry sources added.”
The 20x DVD units are arriving less than three months after Sony began shipping the first 18x DVD burner, observes The Register.
Will we soon be reading shock-horror reports from Hollywood’s MPAA bemoaning the availability of fast burners?
And will Sony, which also makes teensy camcorders of the kind cited by Hollywood as being used to record feature movies in cinemas, be kicked out of the MPAA and the Big Four Organized Music cartel’s RIAA for making and selling gear used by pirates?
Also See:
Digi Times - Lite-On IT launches 20x DVD burner, November 13, 2006
The Register - Lite-On unveils ‘first’ 20x DVD burner, November 14, 2006
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November 14th, 2006 at 6:51 pm
I have great respect for Lite-on as a burner maker. Having owned several of their products and finding out just how good their equipment is has made me a believer in their stuff.
Somehow I doubt the 20 speed is going to shake the world. You can’t really find 18 speed discs on the marketplace as common wares. The burning speed isn’t just regulated by the burner but by how fast the disc will accept the data as well.
The cartels want the cd/dvd discs dead. It solves two problems for them. First it is the beginning of forcing everyone to buy yet again the music on their new formats. The second is that they believe they are getting closer to the holy grail of “no copy” with the blue ray.
In my estimation they aren’t. The anti-copy will be cracked as soon as it has a predominance on the market. They haven’t really locked it up yet so they will hope they can produce yet another format with that inclusion. Seems sort plain what the plan is to me in this regard. We’ve seen it over and over again in the past.