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post #1 of 9
10/30/02 at 8:50am
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Hi,
last week I ordered 8882. Can't wait till I will be able to put my fingers on it .

I have aquestion. Does onyone here knows if Sager is going to release some options for DVD recording. I would love to install DVD recording device into hte second bay of my 8882.

I know, till now only Toshiba and Sony announceed their notebooks with DVD-R /RW devices. And DVD+R/RW are about to reach market in 6 mounths or so.

Does Sager plan to provide an option for DVD recording?

Thanks,
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post #2 of 9
10/30/02 at 9:00am
Congrats on your purchase!
Sager doesn't typically announce plans that far ahead, Toshiba and Sony do it to keep their investors happy of future advancements. Usually they're let something out a month before hand to their techs and resellers. If Toshiba and Sony are going to have it in 6 months, I'd bet Sager will also, but that's just my opinion.
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post #3 of 9
11/6/02 at 4:32pm
The only problem I have with DVD burning is that as far as I've seen, the speed is like 2x or around that. My gosh, that's well below a megabyte per second. If you wanted to burn 4.7 GIGAbytes, lol... hmm... Even if we go with ideal numbers and say 2 seconds per megabyte (that won't happen at 2x), that's 1.8 GB in an hour. That means well over 2 and a half hours to burn a DVD, assuming you have the video already encoded and the like. I don't know. I think I'll stick with VCD and SVCD until the speeds increase and the prices drop considerably (whether for notebooks or desktops). Any thoughts?
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post #4 of 9
11/6/02 at 4:49pm
Let me make a little correction to the previous post. DVDs are rated differently than CDs. 1x for a DVD is between a meg and a meg and a half (I think, correct me if I"m wrong). I believe the 2.4x DVD burners burn at around 3.6Mb/sec.
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post #5 of 9
11/6/02 at 7:32pm
Thanks for correcting me, lol, I thought there was something a little wierd about those numbers. Do you know how fast dvd-r-rws read dvds and cds based on their rating? Like with a combo drive nowadays it's 8x/16x/10x/24x for dvd read speed/write speed/rewrite/cdread. What's the comperable one for dvd-r-rw?
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post #6 of 9
11/6/02 at 8:01pm
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Originally posted by beebster83
Thanks for correcting me, lol, I thought there was something a little wierd about those numbers. Do you know how fast dvd-r-rws read dvds and cds based on their rating? Like with a combo drive nowadays it's 8x/16x/10x/24x for dvd read speed/write speed/rewrite/cdread. What's the comperable one for dvd-r-rw?
I think the standard is 1350KB/s. So, a 2X DVD would be 2700KB/second. To compare, a CD is 150KB/s so a 2X CD would be 300KB/s.
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post #7 of 9
11/6/02 at 9:09pm
BTW Sony already has DVD burning capability on their GRX series Vaios. It's not 6 months away.
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post #8 of 9
11/7/02 at 4:29am
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Originally posted by luketarver
BTW Sony already has DVD burning capability on their GRX series Vaios. It's not 6 months away.
As far as I understand Sony uses DVD-RW standart at the moment. DVD+RW is somewhere 6 mounths to wait.
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post #9 of 9
11/7/02 at 5:00am
I picked up a Panasonic DVD-R and RAM writable drive for my desktop in January this year, and it really doesn't take that long to write a 4.7 GB. Normally just over an hour to write 4.7 GB of data onto a blank DVD-R.

I figure the mobile version of this drive - and perhaps the portable USB 2.0 versions to follow - shouldn't be too far off in terms of speed; it's already 11 months and technology should have advanced at least a little.


Rob
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