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24x DVD Burners Hit the Market

Posted by timothy on from the break-the-news-gently-to-your-cd-r-drive dept.

KingofGnG writes "There is some uncertainty on which will be the one, between Sony Optiarc and Lite-On, to market the first drive of such kind, but the fact is that DVD burners will once again exceed the maximum write speed limit going from 22x to 24x. Both companies will release the new optical drives between March and May, and though in practice the speed difference isn't amazing at all, the new breakthrough shows that firms continue to invest in a technology with a surprisingly long life."

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  1. Re:Moore's Law by udif · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Actually, it was a single laser that was split into multiple beams.

    The technology behind the Kenwood drives was developed by an Israeli startup called Zen Research (they had their logo on the drive).

    The drive ended up more expensive than it had to, because they ended up using separate ICs for each beam due to a bug in their ASIC, preventing using the ASIC's internal logic that was supposed to do the same. They were already very late so they didn't respin the ASIC.

    They worked on the same logic for a DVD writer, but they were so late that the company went belly-up.