BenQ announced its new DW1620 Pro, the successor of probably the best DVD+/-RW drive on the market, the DW1620A. The specs of the DW1620 Pro are very similar to the specs of the DW1620A, which won our editors choice award . The only difference is, that BenQ has upgraded the writing speed and the drive is now able to write DVD+R DL medias up to 4x speed.
Besides Nero Express 6 (OEM Suite), which BenQ will probably ship also with other drives in the future, the package contains BenQ QVideo 2.0 and BenQ Booktype Management 8.3, a software that allows you to save video material on DVD without saving on your hard disk first.
The drive will be available for about €99 from the middle of November.
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The BenQ DW1620 Pro writes DVD+RW and DVD-RW medias with 4x speed. CD-R medias will be written with a maximum of 40x and CD-RWs with 24x speed. |
Those of you that own a DW1620A, might be able to upgrade your drives to this "new" version. All you have to do is to visit our BenQ/Philips Forum at Club CD Freaks and look out for suggestions where you can find modified firmwares or guides that tell you how to upgrade this drive.
The text above is a free translation from the original German press release found over at BenQ Germany.
Source: BenQ
