Hello there, I want to ask about the performance difference of a 4x DVD-R vs a 8x DVD-R. How much time does it take to burn a DVD with these speeds?<BR><BR>I'm looking for a laptop, and I've homed in ...

NEC has launched a faster DVD writer which, it claims, is the first to author both DVD+R and DVD-R rewritable formats at 4x speed. This doubles the previous speed at which DVD+R discs could be written ...

Entertainment Media Expo Booth 302, — August 23, 2005 –Advanced Media, Inc., is pleased to announce brisk sales of its 8cm mini-DVD discs. The discs have been a strong addition to the popular RIDATA™ ...

Music CDs can also be written. New Ricoh Media for the DVD+RW/+R High-Speed-Technology 4x : The new Ricoh media being launched with the MP5240A-DP, are perfectly coordinated both in speed and ...

SAN JOSE, Calif., May 3, 2005 – Sony Electronics is expanding its lineup of award-winning DVD burners with a pair of new drives that support 4X DVD-R Dual Layer (DL) recording. The internal DRU-800A ...

Pioneer Electronics Inc.’s Business Solutions Division has announced its new DVR-A05 DVD-R/RW and CD-R/RW combination drive. It’s the successor to Pioneer’s DVR-A04, the basis for Apple’s SuperDrive.

Detailed review over at DVD Writers of Pioneer’s DVR-A05 DVD-RW burner. The DVR-A05 is the first 4x DVD burner, it can burn a 4.7GB DVD in about fifteen minutes. And for all you pirates out there, it ...

Apple’s digital-hub strategy has made the DVD burner — with its ability to play movies, back up more than 4.5GB of data, and create movies that your friends can play on their home DVD players — a ...

CMC Magnetics, the largest producer of optical discs in Taiwan, recently obtained certification from international vendors for 4x DVD-R DL (single-sided double-layer) discs, the first among Taiwanese ...

It used to be the case that the fastest optical drive was, by default, the best. Reducing CD burn times from 12 minutes to eight and then to six was considered significant evolutionary progress. But ...

The LaCie 16X d2 DVD+/-RW Double Layer external burner has many of the same strengths offered by earlier models: a tough, rack-mountable aluminum chassis, an auto-sensing dual FireWire/USB 2.0 ...