Cebit 2002 - BrainWave

Sanyo News - Page 1

Probably you may don't know but BrainWave is the official Sanyo distributor of Sanyo in Europe. At their booth , much bigger than last year, they presented a new series of CD-RW drives among with some stand alone DVD players. The new Sanyo 40x CD-RW with the code name"CRD-BP1700P" was there and has some very interesting features:

- 40x write (Z-CLV), 12x rewrite (CLV) and 48x (CAV) reading

- 4MB of Buffer

- BURN-Proof technology

- Shock-BP (Shock-Proof), FlexSS-BP and Safe-BP technologies

- Support for SafeDisc v2.5 (we don't know if there will be support for v2.51.x)

- AudioSafe technology

Sanyo adds two new technologies (Shock-BP, AudioSafe) to compete Yamaha's AudioMASTER and Plextor's VariRec. No details are available yet, but it seems that the new option is closer to what Plextor has developed. In addition, there is a support for SafeDisc v2.5 versions which makes the drive more comparable to the LiteOn products. Lastly, Brainwave demonstrated Verbatim 40x certified CD-RW media, useful for the existing and future 40x capable CD-RW drives. There will be another 48x recorder from Sanyo (CRD-BP1800P) and this will be the last, at least for the CD recording format.