Mitsumi announced the new DW-7802TE dual DVD recorder. This drive can write to both DVD formats currently available in the market at up to 4x speed, and read at up to 12x speed. For CDs, the new burner achieves 16x burning speed and 40x reading speed, CD-RWs are 10x and 32x speed, respectively.

The DW-7802TE will come on the European market in July, and its price will be approximately 299,- euros, including statutory value added tax.

Specifications:

Interface: ATA/IDE (PIO Mode 4), Ultra DMA33
Transfer rates write: DVD-R 4x 5.5 MBytes/s
DVD-RW 2x 2.7 MBytes/s
DVD+R 4x 5.5 MBytes/s
DVD+RW 2.4x 3.3 MBytes/s
CD-R 16x 2,400 KBytes/s
CD-RW 10x 1,500 KBytes/s

Transfer rates read: DVD-ROM (Single Layer) 5 - 12x 6.9 – 16.6 MBytes/s
DVD-ROM (Dual Layer) 3 - 7x 4.1 – 10 MBytes/s
DVD-R/-RW/+R/+RW 2 - 5x 2.7 – 6.9 MBytes/s
DVD-Video 2 - 5x 2.7 – 6.9 MBytes/s
CD-ROM/CD-R 17 - 40x 2,550 – 6,000 KBytes/s
CD-RW 13 - 32x 1,950 – 4,800 KBytes/s

Supported writeable media: DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD-R, DVD-RW, CD-R, CD-RW
Storage capacity: DVD+RW/DVD+R 4,7 GB / CD-R/CD-RW 650 MB, 700 MB

Access times: DVD 140 ms, CD 120 ms

Burn modes: TAO (track-at-once) without zero interval, variable or fixed packet, DAO (Disc- At-Once), Session-At-Once, Multisession

Supported formats: DVD single/dual-layers, DVD single/double-sided, DVD Video, DVD-ROM, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, CD-ROM, CD-ROM XA, CD-Text, CD-Video, CDExtra, CD-DA, Photo-CD (Single/Multi-session), CD-RW

Data Buffer and Burn Methods: 2 MByte