Taiwan OEM makers to produce DVD+R DL burners for Dell and HP

April 28, 2004

According
to Digitimes Dell and HP
will soon start shipping their high-end PCs with DVD+R DL burners. The drives
will be made by Taiwanese companies such as BenQ and Lite-On and the OEM prices
will be about $ 130-140 initially.

Dell and Hewlett Packard
(HP) will launch DVD+RW double-layer (DL) burners bundled with their PCs
early next month, so their Taiwanese OEM makers will soon begin production
of such DL burner models in small volumes, according to Taiwanese makers
of optical disc drives.

The
DVD+RW DL burners to be bundled by Dell and HP, both members of the DVD+RW
Alliance, will support 8.5GB single-sided DL DVD discs. Their Taiwanese
OEM producers include BenQ and Lite-On IT, the Taiwanese makers of optical
disc drives indicated.

According to the article retail
DVD+R DL drives will be launched in the end of next month. You can read the full
story at Digitimes here.

Source: Digitimes