Lasse Penttinen
17 Apr 2003 14:09
Philips is pushing the DVD+RW technology to the general mass market, but also has updated their CD-R technology.
Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) today announced a manufacturing-ready six-channel DVD+R/+RW recorder reference design for the consumer market. By integrating Philips' Class-D amplifier family with Philips Nexperia DVD+R/+RW total turnkey system solution, manufacturers will be able to rapidly address the emerging DVD+R/+RW recorder market with AM/FM Radio, RDS, surround audio decoding and six-channel Class-D in time for the 2003 holiday sales season. The combination of these features will enable consumers to purchase a DVD-recorder based Home-Theater-in-a-Box (HTiB) which is a system currently based only on DVD players.
Philips press release
CDRINFO.COM publishes the following specs of a new high speed Philips CD-RW drive:
Interface: ATAPI
Writing: 52x CD-R, 24x CD-RW
Reading: 52x
DAE: 40x
Buffer: 2MB Buffer Underun Protection: Seamless Link
Price: 80 Euros