And soon they will saturate at 16X!

[bimbla]

DVD Burner speeds is inching towards 16X where it will saturate. The rewrite speed will probably reach 8X and the dual- layer speed to 4X.

Then what? Blue ray writers and the story will go on.....

As far as the DL is concerned, enabling bit setting makes DL +R and DL -R meaning less.

What do you think?

bimbla.

[Silentbob343]

I hope RW can reach 12x and DL 6x-8x. 8x for RW wouldn't be bad but I hope DL would go past 4x. I know my hopes for DL are a bit high, but that it would be great if it reached those speeds.

[Vanderlow]

If they can go to 4x this quickly I bet they can go further. I thought they quoted a BenQ spokesperson as saying so.

[kirpen]

I thought i read a story about a new laser head(?) that would go past the 16x speed limit on dvd burning.

[Shredder]

I thought i read a story about a new laser head(?) that would go past the 16x speed limit on dvd burning.

Laser is not a problem. Real problem is implementing and designing a robust servo to deal with 10K+ RPM.

[Silentbob343]

" thought i read a story about a new laser head(?) that would go past the 16x speed limit on dvd burning"

yeah but what is the media limit? DVD media that can burn at 20x would probably be very hard to manufacture in large quantities and cost quite a bit. Same reason the CD writers never went above 52X. They had the ability to do 56x but no media maker had plans for media past 52x or so I recall.