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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. In Junis-Run Afghanistan by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The DVDs burn YOU. After digging you up.

  2. Sibling love by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Mmm... this year's Christmas was the best Christmas ever.

    We finally went for it. You just can't compare the feeling of making love to your adult, consenting and dear sister to anything. I am so happy to have such an intelligent sister that she could overcome the psychological incest taboo.

  3. Re:Normal for a laptop with a low power drain HD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    My roommate's 9" penis displays extraordinary progress when it comes out of hibernate that reads "n of 9"". The increased n at a rough rate of 0.5" per second. Thus, that must be a normal rate for slow penii, and when I saw 12", I assumed John Holmes.

  4. Re:Digital Versatile Disc ? by NineNine · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'd call 'em just plain ol' "DD"s. "Digital Discs". Plus, the "DD" implies BIIIIG! Confused? See the link below.