The German website PCWelt.de has posted a report from the Computex show in
Taipei with interesting information about coming DVD writers. Here is a short
summary of their article in English:
 The DVD+R/RW format is likely to become the dominating format in
2004 according to most drive and media
manufacturers.
- Lite-On will introduce an 8x DVD writer, the LDW-811S, in late
October. A 12x model could follow as early as in the end of Q1
2004.
- AOpen will introduce a 12x DVD+R/RW writer in the
beginning of 2004.
- 16x writers could appear in 2004 and will be the max speed for DVD
burners.
- CMC, Ritek and an unamed Japanese manufacturer will
start mass production of 8x DVD+R media in mid October.
- Sony has developed a dual layer DVD+R blank but it will
likely never reach production stage because the drives needed to burn it
will be too
expensive.
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You can read complete article in German here
and a Babelfish translation here. Personally I doubt 12x DVD writers will show up before mid
2004 but on the other hand 6 months ago I didn't think 8x models would be
launched before Q4 this year.
Source: PCWelt.de
