Lite-On IT to roll out 18x DVD burner - BenQ on hold

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#1

I just posted the article Lite-On IT to roll out 18x DVD burner - BenQ on hold.

DigiTimes is reporting that Lite-On is planning
third quarter volume production of 18x speedy burners. Of course, Plextor
has announced such a drive already, the PX-760A 18x DVD burner…

Read the full article here:  [http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/11511-Lite-On-IT-to-roll-out-18x-DVD-burner---BenQ-on-hold.html](http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/11511-Lite-On-IT-to-roll-out-18x-DVD-burner---BenQ-on-hold.html)

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#2

I bet an 18x drive will make about a 10-20 sec difference :S If they really want to speed up burning, they should add a second laser! Burn from the outside in and the inside out simultaneously!

#3

I thought the exact same thing. I guess there would be loads of problems with 2 lasers though. I’m glad that BenQ are concentrating more on quality than speed. Speed seems to be the only thing the other manfactureres think about.

#4

How about either 2 lasers: each one burns their own layer. Or with lightscribe burners have a laser on top burn the label as you are burning your disc. Of course Lightscribe burning will have to improve in speed to keep up with the dvd burning.

#5

Great. Now we can get coasters at 18x in under 5½ minutes, instead of getting usable burns in 6 minutes. Just like we got 52x CD-R burners that could make coasters out of good media in a few seconds less than it took to get acceptable burns on the same media with the previous generation of 48x burners. Maybe I’m just a pessimist. :frowning:

#6

Well, I’d rather see them working to get 16x burns to the level of quality that I get out of my 1640 and TYG02 at 8x. I don’t sit and watch the drive anyway, so saving a minute but getting iffy quality isn’t interesting to me. I’d like to see them get better quality out of a much wider range of media brands and speeds than to just keep going for faster and faster. :slight_smile:

#7

18x? Wow. So why haven’t I ever seen blank media rated higher than 8x? It’s not as if I haven’t been looking.

#8

How many people actually burn data at 16x ? I still burn my stuff at 4x - 8x for reliability and yes it does make a difference. Burn quality is far more important to me than outright speed. Where are the savings in burning fast when the burn quality will be less than it should be ? Of course it’s this “faster and faster” mindset that people get conditioned with thinking that it will make life easier when in reality it doesn’t.

#9

I thought these things work on a digital principle? Long as the 1’s and 0’s make it onto the disc then the quality should be ok? I burn at 16x but run the verify data option (Nero) and it always passes…

#10

im just boring then as i have never written a disk above 4x and i have have neber had a bad write either so must be doing something write :g