Ricoh announces the first fully compliant 8X DVD+RW media

May 23, 2005

Ricoh, a company which has been in the optical drive business since the first CD recorders were around has announced the first 8X DVD+RW that meets the new High Speed DVD+RW standard set last December. The disc features their own exclusive recording layer to allow for reliable recording at 8x. Like an 8X write-once DVD, it takes only about 9 minute to record a full disc, compared with about 15 minutes for current 4x DVD+RW media, however with the advantage of being able to overwrite or erase the disc later on.

Rich expects to make its 8x DVD+RW available from the beginning of June in a choice of a DVD-Video case, standard jewel case or as a 10-disc spindle. So far no pricing information has been announced.

With its new High Speed DVD+RW 8x, Ricoh, a leading manufacturer of high-quality DVD media and member of the DVD+RW Alliance, presents the first rewritable DVD+RW medium that perfectly meets all the requirements of the new High Speed DVD+RW standard set in December 2004. Based on an exclusive coating technology newly developed by Ricoh, the DVD+RW 8x is produced with high-precision tools. It offers users the highest possible standards of security and compatibility for storing their valuable data. Thanks to the high-speed recording process, the new medium allows data volumes of up to 4.7 Gigabyte to be written and rewritten in only around nine minutes.

The most important features of the new DVD+RW 8x

The newly developed, exclusive recording coating and the use of high-precision manufacturing tools ensure a reliable high-speed recording process and high durability of the DVD.
Optimally compliant with the new 8x High Speed DVD+RW standard, 4.7 Gigabyte can be stored in only around nine minutes. A DVD+RW 4x requires over 15 minutes for the same amount of data.
Writing to a DVD+RW 8x is just as easy as storing data on a hard disk. Therefore the DVD+RW 8x is perfectly suited to backing up large amounts of data, for daily hard drive backups or for tests in preparation for writing to original DVDs.

Ricoh's 8X DVD+RW media

Read the full press release here.

Having high speed DVD+RW would come in handy for temporarily storing a movie or other lengthy recording on DVD. However, while DVD+RW may appear like a handy method of transferring a large quantity of data between two sites, portable hard drives seem to be taking the place of rewritable media. Then again, when it comes to backing up large quantities of data, DVD+RW can work out cheaper.

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Source: CDRLabs