BenQ announces 8x4 dual format DVD writer

March 5, 2004

While the BenQ DW800A DVD+R/RW
writer supports writing the DVD-R/RW format with a firmware upgrade, which users
can purchase for a small fee, BenQ has now also announced a new model, the
DW822A, with built-in support for burning DVD-R/RW:

BenQ DW822A
specifications
Write speed Read speed

DVD+R/RW 8x/4x CD-ROM 40x

DVD-R/RW 4x/2x DVD-ROM 12x

CD-R/RW 24x/10x Seek time

Buffer size 8 MB CD/DVD 120/160ms

Dual
support

A Dual
Drive supports both +R/RW and
'“R/RW format

Superior writing
quality

BenQ's exclusive Tilt Servo
Control maintains the best writing angle and Walking OPC provides
optimized writing power, thus ensuring the best writing quality throughout
the whole burning process.

Extremely fast 8x
DVD +R writing speed!

Complete 4.7GB of burning in
ten minutes!

Book Type Management
-- Change the format to be more compatible

BenQ's Book Type Management
enables you to manage the format easily between DVD R/+RW to DVDROM, the
accepted standard format for DVD Players. Dealing effectively with over
99.4% of all compability
issues.

More information
about the DW822A is available here. While the BenQ DW800A DVD-R/RW firmware only support 2x
DVD-R speed at the moment BenQ will release a 4x DVD-R firmware later this month
which should give it the same performance as the new DW822A. As we reported about last
week BenQ will also
soon have
a double layer burner out, the
DW830A.

Source: BenQ Europe