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Liteon 8X DVD/CD dual writer

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This is the fastest IDE DVD writer we’ve reviewed so far. It reads DVDs at

12X and records on DVD+R media and DVD-R at 8X and 4X respectively. It re-writes

DVD+RW at 4X and DVD-RW at 2X. Also it writes CDs at 40X and CDRWs at 24X. 

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All the DVD writing tests have been done on 4X DVD-R, however, that time +R as

8X DVD wasn’t available in the market. Moreover, 4.3 GB data was also burnt on

DVD+R media at 4X that took 14 mins 44 secs, which is quite good. Following

this, the same test was done on the same 4X media, but at 8X, and it took just 9

mins 21 secs.

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Price: Rs

13,500 (One-year warranty)
Key Specs:

Writes DVD+R media at 8X 
Contact:

Mediatech, Mumbai.
Tel:

26361111.
E-mail: inquiry@mediatechindia.com

Though, this may not always work, since you’re burning at a faster rate

than the media is rated at. In the tests performed, it burnt without any

problems. Surprisingly, it only took 33 secs to format a DVD+RW in CD-6 and 24

mins to copy 4.3 GB of data on it, both are very good timings. 

Coming to the CD tests, the drive took 3 mins to burn 650 MB of data on 48X

CD-R and same time to create an audio CD from 74 mins of audio. It took 3 mins

to do CD duplication and 6 mins for audio CD duplication. 

The drive comes with PowerDVD and SONIC MyDVD software. Overall it’s a very

good buy, considering the speed.