New LG DVD writers to support 8x DVD+R DL and LightScribe

LG has announced two new DVD writers with quite impressive specs at CeBIT, the internal GSA-4165B (E-IDE) and the external GSA-5165D (USB 2.0 and IEEE1394). Compared to the current GSA-4163B/5163D burners the new models will increase the write speed for DVD+R DL to 8x and for CD-R/RW to 48x/32x, add support for writing DVD-R DL at 4x as well as support for burning labels with HP's LightScribe technology.

LG GSA-4165B/5165D specs
Write speed Write speed
DVD+R DL 8x CD-R 48x
DVD+R 16x CD-RW 32x
DVD+RW 8x
DVD-R DL 4x Read speed
DVD-R 16x DVD-ROM 16x
DVD-RW 6x       CD-ROM 48x     
DVD-RAM 5x Buffer size 2MB

LG GSA-5165D

 

The MSRP for the GSA-4165B and the GSA-5165D are €99 and €199 respectively and the drives will be available in April. According to the press release LG also plans to introduce DVD writers with SATA interface in the third quarter this year.

Source: LG Germany

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