Asus is currently making its steps on the DVD market, the company mainly known for its mainboard and videocards has only been relativly short on the optical storage market. With its good quality CD recorders it was able to get a large market share the last few months and expectations for their DVD recorders are high.
The company has presented its first own brand dual format DVD recorder yesterday. The drive writes DVD+R and DVD-R at 4x, DVD+RW at 2.4x and DVD-RW at 2x. The company hopes to ship ten to twelve million optical storage drives in 2003, in 2002 the company sold about six million drives.
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Initial monthly shipments of the DRW-0402P/D, which comes with a suggested retail price of US,999 (about US7), will be about 50,000 units, while the company targets shipping 300,000 units for the full year, the company said. |
The article also mentions that Asus will launch a 8x dual format DVD recorder in November, the company joins NEC (+ only) and Lite-On with these announcements, while Plextor will release its 8x dual format DVD recorder about two months earlier.
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Source: Digitimes.com
