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DVD/CD-RW

Specifications:
Writing Speeds: 2X and 1X (DVD-R)
1X (DVD-RW)
8X and 4X (CD-R)
4X (CD-RW)


Yuck nothing to brag about but I do want one 🙂 maybe the speed will be better.
 
why wait, when you can get a sweet-ass Ricoh MP9120 DVDROM/CDRW drive right now?

oh look, it has burning speed of the fastest plextor, and quite possibly better Burnproof technology (they claim better, but we have no way of prooving it.. at least it works!) too.

with a firmware update I'd have to say that this drive would do very nicely in terms of Audio extraction.. it certainly has the potential, but something limits it to 8x artificially..
 
Well I didn't mean DVD read only + CDRW, that link points to a DVD & CD rewriter, interested on how much that thing costs 🙂
 
Nice sounding drive.

Unlikely to be cheap though. The current Pioneer 1x DVD-R costs over $5k, and at over $40 per blank coasters aren't cheap either.

There are problems with current DVD-R technology: the low capacity of the current DVD-R discs (4.7 GB) means that you will only get about 60 minutes of DVD video on a disc; DVD-Rs cannot be used as masters for replication, you still need to supply the raw data on a DLT tape; you can't encrypt video data on a DVD-R, this also means that you cannot make a direct copy of a copy-protected DVD movie.
 
"DVD-R discs (4.7 GB) means that you will only get about 60 minutes of DVD video on a disc"

actually, you can fit around 133minutes of video on a DVD (if you're using the DVD standard).

we don't know exactly what audio bitrate that would leave it, but it's possible. the 5th Element DVD is double sided and has 126 minutes of video on either side (one widescreen, the other 4:3).

as for the cost of the Ricoh, they mentioned it on the storage review review of that drive. might as well check out it's impressive performance while going through there!
 
The Ricoh non-DVD recording, but DVD-reading & CD-rewriting drive checks in around $300. Someone had a special for $250 last week and I didn't jump. 🙁

-SUO
 
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