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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. RIAA by stud9920 · · Score: 2, Redundant

    Wow ! They must each count as five DVD writers, 'cause they're real fast !

  2. Boy it's time for an upgrade!!! by JFMulder · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It goes on to say that a whole Digital Versatile Disc Could be written in about 3.5 minutes.

    Boy it's time for an upgrade!!!

    Reason 1)
    Let's see, 3.5 minutes = 210 seconds
    If a DVD with dual layer is used, than 9 gigs in 210 seconds means 44megs/second. My HD doesn't do near that!!

    Reason 2)
    I burn a whole CD in 9 minutes (8x CD burner)!!! This thing will burn a whole DVD in less then half the time it takes me to make a CD!!!

    It's definitely time for an upgrade...