We already reported about the upcoming Pioneer A04 DVD recorder more than 2 weeks ago, but today Pioneer sent out a press release of the release of the drive.
The DVR-A04-J is to be released in Japan and records and plays back DVD-R/RW and CD-R/RW discs. The formatting time of a DVD-RW disc has been reduced to approximately one minute!
The rapid diffusion of personal computers equipped with DVD-ROM drives and DVD-Video players is a gathering momentum, and greater numbers of users now want to produce their own original DVDs. Under such circumstances, personal computers being introduced into the market by manufacturers feature improved CPU performance, and increasing numbers of these models are also equipped with internal recordable DVD drives for video editing and other applications. |
Above all, users are becoming increasingly interested in the DVD-R/RW media with its superior playback compatibility with other DVD playback devices and its large storage capacity, which is equal to that of DVD-Video or approximately seven times greater than CD-R/RW.
Pioneer's new DVR-A04-J comes bundled with a variety of software: video authoring software will allow users to easily make their own DVD discs on a PC as well as writing software that lets users record data in simple drag-and-drop operations as they would with a floppy disk. In addition to that, the time for formatting a DVD-RW disc required for packet writing (*1) has been reduced to approximately one minute from the former 60 minutes or more time.
Pioneer expects that the introduction of the DVR-A04-J will further expand the DVD-R/RW market.
It will be launched in the Japanese consumer market this late April at open price, and the company said will produce 3,000 units of the new "DVR-A04-J" monthly.
To view all the features and specifications you can read the entire press release here.
Source: pioneer
