Cebit 2002 - BrainWave

Sanyo News - Page 2

Many people have been wondering when Sanyo will enter the DVD recording area.. At last there are some great news. BrainWave has released information about a new Super DVD combo recorder from Sanyo with the code name"CRD-DV1". It is a DVD-R/CD-RW drive with some impressive features:

- 4x DVD-R writing, 16x DVD-ROM reading

- 24x CD-R writing, 12x rewriting and 48x (or 40x) reading

- BURN-Proof Technology for CD format

- ShockBP, FlexSS-BP and Safe-BP for CD format

As BrainWave said, the product will hit the market in June of 2002 in an unknown price for now. There will be a firmware upgrade around September 2002 that will add the DVD-RW format (probably only 1x) support and by the end of 2002, a Sanyo DVD+RW drive will appear.

Those news are probably the most interesting in this year's CeBIT show. The decision of Sanyo to enter the DVD recording format means that the DVD recorder prices will decrease rapidly, and the DVD recording will become reality for the most of the end users. Of course there are some questions whether 4x capable DVD-R media will be available by June, but the media manufacturers are working hard on it...