will DVD Burners ever get faster than 16X?

[dpopiz]

I remember how it was seeing CD-R drives get gradually faster. DVD Burners seem to be stuck at 16X

why?

Isn't 16X DVD same rotational speed as 16X CD?

 

[Baked]

Maybe 16x DVD is the equivalent of 52x CD. Since Blu-Ray and HD-DVD is coming, I don't see the reason for DVD to go any higher.

 

[Mikey]

18x is the fastest for a dvd burner currently. any faster wouldnt really be economicall feasible. 18x can already burn an entire dvd in less then 4 or 5 min. at any higher rates, you risk breaking the dvd in the drive. i remember there were really high rates of disks being shattered while burning or running at 54 or 56x back in the days.

 

[StrangerGuy]

Originally posted by: Baked
Maybe 16x DVD is the equivalent of 52x CD. Since Blu-Ray and HD-DVD is coming, I don't see the reason for DVD to go any higher.

DVD 16x is 3 times as fast a CD 52X.

DVD 16x = 22.1MB
CD 52x = 7.8MB

The two transfer rates are achieved with a single laser and with the disc spinning very near at it's physical limits. (10000 rpm IIRC) Faster rates will need mutliple lasers and will be much more expensive than the $30 drives we have today.

 

[QueBert]

18x dvd burners are hype, they're bairly a hair faster then 16x drives.

a buncha years ago I bought a Kenwood TrueX 72X cd-rom. It was BLAZING fast, of couse it died within 60 days, as did I believe 100% of the drives. The dual laser technology was interesting, and I think should have been researched and worked on further. While I don't know details about how burners work so Ic an't possible say "it'd be easy!" I'm sure they could come up with multi-laser burners. Then we could get faster burns, with lower disc speeds. I know my TrueX drive spun about what a 32x drive does. And it was seriously 2+ times faster then any CD-ROM drive I've ever used, even up until today. With 2 lasers on a burner we could see a dvd burn in like 3 minutes that would be awesome. Obviously this isn't as easy as I'm making it out to be or some company would have already released it. But, I think this has to be the future, as BlueRay burners will take forever to burn the disc's when they hit the 100gig mark.

 

[Bozo Galora]

4 manuf have already announced 18X DVD Writers - LOL
cdfreaks has recently reviewed the samsung

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=18X+DVD+writers&btnG=Google+Search

the plextor is reviewed as crap by newegg customers
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16827249003
samsung gets thumbs up
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16827151136
where you guys been??
survivor island?

 

[ForumMaster]

as everybody has already said, 18x DVD burners have been out for a while now and there is work on a 20x drive. beyond that, and the speed of the disk risks breaking the media.

 

[w00t]

as everyone else has already stated they have out 18X burners now so you answer has been answered.

 

[SunSamurai]

As everone has already said 18x .. .ahh shut the ****** up .lol

 

[sillycheesedude]

I have an 18x samsung DVD burner and I honestly cannot tell a diference from my 16X lite-on. Buy whatever you can get a good deal on because if you burn a lot of DVD's they don't last that long anyways.

 

[ELopes580]

Originally posted by: QueBert
18x dvd burners are hype, they're bairly a hair faster then 16x drives.

a buncha years ago I bought a Kenwood TrueX 72X cd-rom. It was BLAZING fast, of couse it died within 60 days, as did I believe 100% of the drives. The dual laser technology was interesting, and I think should have been researched and worked on further. While I don't know details about how burners work so Ic an't possible say "it'd be easy!" I'm sure they could come up with multi-laser burners. Then we could get faster burns, with lower disc speeds. I know my TrueX drive spun about what a 32x drive does. And it was seriously 2+ times faster then any CD-ROM drive I've ever used, even up until today. With 2 lasers on a burner we could see a dvd burn in like 3 minutes that would be awesome. Obviously this isn't as easy as I'm making it out to be or some company would have already released it. But, I think this has to be the future, as BlueRay burners will take forever to burn the disc's when they hit the 100gig mark.

I bought one of those drives back in 2000. I still have it and still works to this day.

 

[zephyrprime]

16x is about the same rotational speed as a 52x cd. DVD have a higher ultimate speed because the spec provision higher mechanical strength for discs. Going a whole lot faster would require multi beam which would be a little easier to acomplish on a dvd than a cd because dvd have concentric tracks and not a helical track.

 

[0roo0roo]

if they ever figured out that truex stuff for dvd. doesn't seem to be much demand really, 16 is pretty damn fast. with dual/quad core copying quick doesn't bog down systems these days