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SHARP announces 60x CD-R/ROM writing chipset

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http://www.cdrinfo.com/#2241


<< Sharp announced today a new optical IC chipset (codename: GA100T8R6MZ) that is capable of 60x CD-R, 60x CD-ROM and 16x DVD-ROM (reading) speeds. It will come out end of June at the price of 220 Yen. SHARP believes that such recorders could come end by the end of this year... >>

 
60x??? Not very smart. You'd think they'd milk us for 44x,48x,54x,58x first just like Intel does.

I guess they are just following in Plextors footsteps, your probably right though. But it's just a chipset, I doubt sharp will mass market CD-R drives itself.
 
I really think that we're starting to face heavy diminishing returns here. Burning time on a full CD would be 2 minutes(700MB*1024 / 150Kb*60speed) once you factored in lead-in/lead-out. My insanely cheap 8x burner does a CD in a little over 8 minutes, where it's only 2/15 the "speed" of a 60x drive. I'm not trying to discourage Sharp, but would these guys please get to work on faster and cheaper DVD+R's, and give CD's a rest already?
 


<< I really think that we're starting to face heavy diminishing returns here. Burning time on a full CD would be 2 minutes(700MB*1024 / 150Kb*60speed) once you factored in lead-in/lead-out. My insanely cheap 8x burner does a CD in a little over 8 minutes, where it's only 2/15 the "speed" of a 60x drive. I'm not trying to discourage Sharp, but would these guys please get to work on faster and cheaper DVD+R's, and give CD's a rest already? >>



right on😉
 
I really think that we're starting to face heavy diminishing returns here. Burning time on a full CD would be 2 minutes(700MB*1024 / 150Kb*60speed) once you factored in lead-in/lead-out. My insanely cheap 8x burner does a CD in a little over 8 minutes, where it's only 2/15 the "speed" of a 60x drive. I'm not trying to discourage Sharp, but would these guys please get to work on faster and cheaper DVD+R's, and give CD's a rest already?

I feel the same way, but I dont think there is a large enough demand for DVD+R to warrent any work on it. The avrage joe isn't going to need cd's for anything more than music and small things like that. Honestly I think they see it as to big of a jump in storage space. DVDR's can't be used in a normal CD player so the release would create a whole new standerd.
 
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