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Toshiba orders HD DVD burners from Lite-On
That was quick. We just received word a few days ago that Lite-On was making HD DVD drives but wondered if they were going to receive any OEM orders from big players in the HD DVD camp. They received a order and it sure is from a big player -- Toshiba. The key HD DVD player ordered these units so it can concentrate on producing slim-line HD DVD drives which we assume are for their laptops. Lite-On is expecting the production lines to ramp up to full power by March of '07 so don't expect any of these drives for Christmas this year. Lite-On might also receive another big order from Microsoft to power their Xbox 360 drive but that is still in the speculation category right now.
Lite-On to start making HD DVD burners in 2007
While we're still waiting for Toshiba -- or anyone else -- to start selling HD DVD burners Stateside, one of the largest Taiwanese manufacturers, Lite-On, has announced they will begin producing HD DVD burners in March 2007. They're not picking a side however, as they've already begun making Blu-ray recordable drives. Digitimes notes Toshiba has been very active in courting Taiwanese manufacturers to the HD DVD side, we'll see if this bears worthwhile fruit. Luckily for HD DVD, considering the current price of most Blu-ray burners, for most consumers they may as well not be on the shelves either.
20x DVD burners by Lite-On soon, so soon
When a massive installed base of a particular product holds the potential to save the collective world literally, um, minutes per day, that's when you know you're on to something. The 20x DVD burner is coming people, and Lite-On is preparing the charge to make these puppies shoot right past today's 16x drives (and tomorrow's 18x drives) so you can burn a DVD in about five minutes and thirty seconds compared to the six-some-odd minutes it takes today. Oh, and no, that's not one of the drives off to the right, that's some laggard's burner that doesn't record at 26 megs per second -- what a loser.
