There are
already two threads on our forums on a new drive to be released by the joint
venture of Hitachi-LG. Altough the drive has not been officialy announced one of
our members could verify the information. LG will launch a new drive with model
number GSA-4163B which will be one of the first DVD recorders that
supports 6x DVD-RW.
 Quote from Kenshin:
LG also has a DVD writer that supports 4x
DVD+R Double Layer recording. Not only that, LG included 8x DVD+RW and 6x
DVD-RW. LG DVD writers often had the most complete and advanced features
and this is no exception.
Also, one of the industry's first P-CAV
16x writing for both DVD+R and DVD-R is included. Before laughing at LG
(or me), one can look at the actual PCAV 16x writing. There is 5x DVD-RAM
P-CAV as well for both reading and writing unlike Pioneer's DVD-RAM
reading at slower speeds which is pathetic in my views but was considered
to be great by some others.
None of these are LG's monopoly, or
Hitachi's for that matter. Plextor PX-716A has 8x DVD+RW. Several
manufacturers have 4x DVD+R DL. Matsushita introduced 5x DVD+R DL writers
some time after Hitachi-LG's GSA-4120B release. P-CAV 16x DVD+R recording
was first announced by Toshiba-Samsung two months ago. 16x DVD-R is even
less unique. However, GSA-4163B is the first of all to support all of the
above. |
The drive reads DVD-ROMs at 16x, CD-ROM at 40x.
Recording of CD-Rs is possible with this drive at 40x, CD-RWs are written at
24x. More information can be found in this
thread and this thread.
Thanks go to Disree and Kenshin for
providing us with this information.
Source: Club CD Freaks
