Sharp announces 16x dual-layer laptop DVD burning laser

by Donald Melanson, posted Sep 18th 2006 at 11:43AM

Sharp is doing its part in the fight for ever-faster DVD burning speeds, likely to continue until discs start flying out of their drives and someone really gets hurt. The company's latest development is a new red laser semiconductor with a maximum throughput of 350mW, sufficient to burn dual-layer +/- DVDs at 16x speeds. What's more, the laser's designed for use in laptop DVD drives, though Sharp says the drives will have low power consumption and high heat dissipation, so you shouldn't have to worry about it further fanning the flames -- well, not any more than usual. Laptops packing the speedy new drives look like they're still be a little ways off yet though, with samples of the laser just shipping to manufacturers later this month.

[Via Akihabara News]

Filed under: Storage

Tags: dvd burner, DvdBurner, red laser, RedLaser, sharp

Subscribe to these comments

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Neutral

Igor @ Sep 18th 2006 11:53AM

took them some time

Neutral

Bhavin @ Sep 18th 2006 1:09PM

With large usb key's the need for dvd burning has greatly dimished.

Neutral

Pete @ Sep 18th 2006 1:17PM

I use a laptop as my main PC. It would be very nice to have a 16x dual layer burner on that when the need arises. I can't burn a USB key and play it on my DVD drive!

Neutral

Maff @ Sep 18th 2006 2:16PM

great news for crimers ;)

Neutral

James @ Sep 18th 2006 3:25PM

I hate to see a catastrophic failure when one of those discs decides to commit suicide and shatter into a million pieces when you're backing up your laptop.

Neutral

bigpoppa @ Sep 19th 2006 1:50PM

It burns at 32x speed when I pee. Keep up with that Sharp, I dare ya!!!

Add your comments

Your comments:

Remember me

E-Mail me when someone replies to this comment

Please keep your comments relevant to this blog entry. Email addresses are never displayed, but they are required to confirm your comments.

When you enter your name and email address, you'll be sent a link to confirm your comment, and a password. To leave another comment, just use that password.

To create a live link, simply type the URL (including http://) or email address and we will make it a live link for you. You can put up to 3 URLs in your comments. Line breaks and paragraphs are automatically converted — no need to use <p> or <br /> tags.