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16x DVD-R Drives Planned for 2004

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the burn-baby-burn dept.

madsenj37 writes "From this article at PC World: 'Mitsubishi Electric has developed a more powerful semiconductor laser that should pave the way for 16X DVD writers to be commercially available by about 2004. The new laser is able to deliver pulses of light at a power of 200 milliwatts, which is double that of lasers used in today's 4X DVD writer drives, the Tokyo company said this week.' It goes on to say that a whole Digital Versatile Disc Could be written in about 3.5 minutes."

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  1. Something I have always wondered . . . by div_2n · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Would it be possible to have multiple lasers all burning at once to increase speed? Like dual lasers working on opposite sides of the disk.

    Of course, the software logic required to keep the lasers out of each others layers could be complex, but it seems from an ignorant stance that you could immediately double write speed that way. Add three and would you triple?

    Anyone that knows more than me have a word on this?