4-speed DVD burner drives anywhere

 

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By Matt Whipp

Posted on 2 Oct 2002 at 15:46

NEC has announced the world's most inflammatory DVD drive. The NEC MultiSpin ND-1100A can burn data to DVD+R and DVD-R media at 4-speed.

Speed on the DVD side of things is matched by its CD handling capabilities. It offers rewriting performance of 2.4x DVD+RW; 2x DVD-RW and 10x CD-RW, writing speeds are 16x CD-R, and it reads DVD-ROM at maximum 12x and CD-Rom at maximum 40x.
Optimally, it can write an hour's worth of DVD video in 15 minutes.

Andrew Wyllie, at NEC UK's Data Storage operation, said: 'Competing standards in the DVD re-writing market have left hardware manufacturers, dealers and consumers wondering which horse to back. The ND-1100A removes the guesswork once and for all, enabling end-users to create disks for play-back in virtually all DVD video players and DVD ROM drives with no compromise in performance.'

Also laudable is the fact that this is not new technology at a premium. The NEC MultiSpin ND-1100A will be available in UK shops from November at a penny under £250 including VAT.

It supports versions of Windows from 98Se and NT4.0 onwards.