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http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.j...toryID=5479551

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Originally Posted by Reuters

Philips Launches World's Fastest DVD Burner

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Philips Electronics has launched the world's first 16-speed DVD writer, which can burn a disc in less than six minutes, the Dutch group said on Tuesday.
U.S. computer maker Dell will be the first customer for the new DVD burner, sources familiar with the Philips activity told Reuters. Philips and Dell have a partnership to supply each other with products.

Philips said it planned to produce 600,000 of the devices every month. Computer makers will pay between 80 and 90 euros ($97-$109) per DVD writer when buying in large quantities, while consumers will have to pay around 180 euros.

The product, which has two layers that take the maximum storage capacity up to 8.5 gigabytes or four hours of DVD quality video, will be a mainstream feature in personal computers by the end of 2004, Philips said.

Until now, eight-speed burners were at the top of the range.

Now that's a nice speed to burn a DVD at :)

Re: Now that's fast

Yeah, and not too harsh on the pocket either. A dual layer and 16x burner got 120 quid? Not too bad, especially considering the price would start coming down soon as well.

Re: Now that's fast

We can only hope it enters the market at a reasonable price, with the current pricing trend though it will indeed become cheaper quite soon after release :)
*checks wallet* ;)

Re: Now that's fast

While on the topic of DVD-Writers, I used clone dvd to backup one of my DVD's and it didnt work.

Does anyone have any experience with this software? or maybe reccomend other software for me to use?

Thanks

Re: Now that's fast

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Originally Posted by br3ach

dvdshrink and nero 6 works fine for me :)

Re: Now that's fast

what about actually finding the 16x media to write on and then being able to afford it and then not making a nice purple coaster?!