Yesterday we reported that the Ricoh
company would release 8x DVD+R media in the 4th quarter of this year.
Unfortunately, the information came from a Japanese website which resulted in a
rather poor translation. Today I received the original English press
release in my mailbox which makes a little more sense:
 Ricoh Company, Ltd, the world's leading writable DVD drive and
media manufacturer, today announced its next generation DVD+R media
products. Unveiled today at the IFA trade show in Berlin, Germany, the new
8x speed DVD+R media allows 4.7GB of data to be burned in less than 8
minutes while maintaining backward compatibility with previous generation
writers. The company will begin shipping the new media to OEMs and media
manufacturers in the U.S., Europe and Japan in 4Q of 2003.
'Ricoh's 8x DVD+R media allows higher
performance write speeds and faster playback with the next-generation 8x
DVD+R drives which are expected to hit the market this fall," said Chris
Katayama, Ricoh's U.S.-based General Manager of DVD+RW/+R OEM Media.
'While at the same time, Ricoh engineered this media so it maintains
compatibility with today's 1x, 2.4x and 4x speed writers. Consumers can
rest assured that they can still use it to read and write on their
existing DVD+R drives."
- Ricoh 8x DVD+R media enables stable
writing at wide range of 1x-8x speed with high
reliability
- Ricoh 8x DVD+R media is ideal for
various DVD+RW recorders and DVD+RW drives thanks to extraordinary wide
power margin
- Ricoh is the technology leader in the
development of DVD+RW/+R technology for both IT and CE markets and
continues to support the leading software vendors
Today's computer and consumer electronics
applications look to use one, cost-effective medium for home entertainment
and PC applications. With Ricoh's core technology, DVD+RW/+R products
bridge CD and DVD writing with the convergence of consumer video recording
and business storage requirements. Computer users can customize and edit
home movies from tapes to DVD discs and then view them in nearly all
DVD-ROM drives and DVD movie players. Similarly, DVD+RW consumer recorders
are available to record broadcasts that can be edited on a computer with a
DVD+RW drive. |
Source: Ricoh
