LG announces 12x DVD burner GSA-4120B

January 28, 2004

Currently shipping their
latest 8x DVD burner, LG Electronics have announced their new DVD burner which
is expected for CeBIT 2004. As with their previous drives, this new drive will
also support DVD-RAM.

The
"GSA-4120B" will be able to write all common DVD formats like DVD+R(W),
DVD-R(W) and DVD-RAM and of course CD-R(W) as well.

12x will only be achieved with DVD+R media whereas
DVD-R will be limited to 8x while DVD+/-RW will only be written with 4x.
DVD-RAM will still be written with 3x (because of forced verify only
1.5x)

There is no information yet about the ability to write
DVD9, availability or pricing.

With 12x drives available, drives that only support 4x will probably
dissapear in the near future. Hopefully discs written at such high
speeds do not have a too high error rate.

Feel free to discuss this drive in our Recording Hardware Forum.

Source: Golem.de