when are 8x dvd drives due out?

[TheLizardMan]

Im looking at getting a dvd drive, sony or pioneer. 4x is okay to deal with, but if 8x is coming out soon id rather get that.

btw... for at least the next 1-2 years do you expect some other format to come out? or is dvd here to stay for a while?

 

[jfall]

I think Plextor already has one out? 8-in-1 Combo drive: 8X DVD+R, 4X DVD-R, 4X DVD+RW, 2X DVD-RW, 12X DVD-ROM, 40X CD-R, 24X CD-RW AND 40X CD-ROM

I don't believe the Media support is there yet, but it is always nice to be future proof.

http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproduct.asp?description=27-131-311&DEPA=1

Related Anandtech thread about this drive:

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=27&threadid=1133171&FTVAR_MSGDBTABLE=

 

[50]

next month I think lite-on will have an 8x burner.

 

[jdurg]

Just remember that you'd need a fairly fast hard drive in order to feed data to the DVD-RW drive quickly enough. 1x CD is a LOT smaller than 1x DVD. (I believe that 1x DVD is something like 1.24 MB/s or something like that). An 8x DVD-Burner would require a hard drive that can read and send data to the drive quickly enough so that buffer under-run errors don't continuously occur.

 

[randumb]

I don't think you should get an 8x drive yet, considering that the 8x media is probably scarce and very expensive. When 8x starts phasing out 4x, the 8x media will get cheaper, but wait for a lot of 8x drives to come out first.

 

[TheLizardMan]

thing is that i have a 2 year old cd mp3 player that cost $140 at the time that i will be retuning to bestbuy because i pruchased a replacment plan for it. I will soon send in the mp3 player for a $140 GC goo for bestbuy. So depending if this GC has a 30-90 day expieration date I might need to pick up somthing fast. So I can't exactly wait for the prices of the drive and media to go down :?

 

[Richard98]

Apparently, the Plextor will write at 8x on certain 4x brands:

http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/7877

"4x media that can be written at 8x are manufactured by Mitsubishi Chemical (Verbatim), Ricoh and Taiyo Yuden. "

 

[amorse2183]

Originally posted by: Richard98
Apparently, the Plextor will write at 8x on certain 4x brands: http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/7877 "4x media that can be written at 8x are manufactured by Mitsubishi Chemical (Verbatim), Ricoh and Taiyo Yuden. "

excellent. i get my signing bonus along with my first paycheck in 2 weeks and it looks like i know what i'm buying.

 

[BigFatCow]

Originally posted by: jdurg
Just remember that you'd need a fairly fast hard drive in order to feed data to the DVD-RW drive quickly enough. 1x CD is a LOT smaller than 1x DVD. (I believe that 1x DVD is something like 1.24 MB/s or something like that). An 8x DVD-Burner would require a hard drive that can read and send data to the drive quickly enough so that buffer under-run errors don't continuously occur.

thats only around 10 MB/sec

 

[sniperruff]

reminds me of the time when they finally have 8X CDRW and phasing out the 2X CDR drives.

but ummm yeah i think plextor has a 8X drive now, i think at livewarehouse.

 

[leolaw]

There is still a lot of potential growth in the DVD burner in the next three years.
You won't lose anything if you buy one right now.

But if you want to save your budget, just hold you money and wait. Because DVD-burning is still uncommon and if you wanna watch DVD, it doesnt really have to be at a high speed, 4x would be fine already. Buy a DVD-player would even better, LOLz, it is just 40-90 bucks.