LG 4x DVD Writers, DVD+RW-compatible DVD-Multi Writers

[Kennyshin]

Source: South Korean Digital Times

LG Electronics (http://www.lge.com) in Seoul told various reporters on 13 that it will expand the domestic South Korean DVD writer market and keep its leadership in the worldwide optical storage market by becoming No. 1 in DVD writer market as well. According to the press conference, LG Electronics will be able to bring the price of DVD-Multi drives down to the level of current CD writers in 2003 by component integration and volume production. During the second half of 2003, LG will also produce 4x DVD writers and DVD-Multi drives that can write to DVD+R and DVD+RW discs. For now, LG is supplying its DVD-Multi drives through HLDS (Hitachi-LG Data Storage) to seven PC vendors including NEC, Apple, IBM, and Fujitsu.

[Ian]

I've also heard some rumors about them working on a DVD Multi drive with support for DVD+R/RW.

[Kennyshin]

Also found this at http://www.vcdhelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=124177 and http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.php? ... did=132000 about the new Panasonic DVD-Multi drive for Apple notebooks.

[Kennyshin]

Another South Korean IT-related newspaper, eTimes (Electronic Times News) reported on DVD writer market on the same day:

http://www.etimesi.com/news/detail.html?cla=70&id=200211140144 (In the original Korean language)

A brief English translation serviced by eTimes:

http://www.etienglish.com/news/detailservice.html?id=200211150008

Recording DVD Market Is to Blossom

By Kim Tae-hun
Friday, November 15, 2002

With a series of releases of recording DVDs less-than-500-a-month market is expected to grow at the turn of year.
According to the industry LG Electronics, leading company in optical storage in the world, releases recording DVD multi drive trigger a series of entries into the market by importers such as MIS Machine, HCL, OROMIMEX, Pioneer, Aopen and Rico.

LG electronics recently rolled out DVD multi drive (model name GMA-4020B) that can record and play DVD RAM, DVD-R/RW and CD R/....

The full English translation is available only to paying members of which I am not. The translation is quite poor anyway.

The original report says something about Samsung: Samsung Electronics has also already developed and is preparing for the release of its own DVD writers.