16x DVD writer from LG available in Japan

01 Sep 04 21:07 by jsl in category Uncategorized To news archive

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style=" FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">While LG Electronics has not
released any official information about the GSA-4160B yet the bulk version of
this 16x DVD writer has already showed up in "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /> w:st="on">Japan now. The
only thing that looks to have changed in the specifications compared to the
existing GSA-4120B is the increased write speed of DVD+R to 16x from
12x.

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LG GSA-4160B
specifications

Write size=2> speed size=2> Read speed

DVD+R DL 2.4x CLV DVD-ROM 16x CAV

DVD+R 16x ZCLV DVD+R DL 8x CAV

DVD+RW 4x CLV DVD±R 10x CAV

DVD-R 8x ZCLV DVD±RW 8x CAV

DVD-RW 4x CLV DVD-RAM 5x PCAV

DVD-RAM 5x PCAV CD-ROM 40x CAV

CD-R 40x ZCLV CD-R/RW 40x CAV

CD-RW 24x ZCLV

Access time

Buffer size size=2> DVD-ROM 145 ms

2 MB
DVD-RAM 165 ms

CD-ROM 125
ms

The price for the bulk version including software is
about 15000 Yen (~ €110). More information and some pictures of the drive
is available href="http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/urltrurl?lp=ja_en&trurl=http%3a%2f%2fakiba.ascii24.com%2fakiba%2fnews%2f2004%2f09%2f01%2f651331-000.html"
target=_new>here (Babelfish translation).

Source: akiba.ascii24.com

9 Comments

Warped: Posts: 213; Posted on: 01 Sep 04 21:21

Pioneer is still king!

XpProf: Posts: 302; Posted on: 01 Sep 04 21:30

Only 2.4x DL Recording?? bah!

Namoh: Posts: 6477; Posted on: 02 Sep 04 08:00

But this one has DVD-RAM 5x support!! Namoh waits for the reactions: who needs RAM-support?? Well, I DO!

Shadowman69: Posts: 155; Posted on: 02 Sep 04 08:44

Probably it's just a 4120 with a different firmware. I hope someone will find a way to flash 4160 firmware in a 4120...

Wesociety: Posts: 5230; Posted on: 02 Sep 04 18:14

The lack of 16X DVD-R support is disappointing. We'll probably see a newer drive with this feature from them very soon.

Kenshin: Posts: 12741; Posted on: 03 Sep 04 07:33

That happened with LG's 8x DVD writer. LG'll soon release another model with 16x DVD-R and 4x DVD+R DL. The price in Japan's simply not correct. 15,000 Yen is TWO TIMES as much as the price of GSA-4120B in Japan. It's so high only because very few has made it to the retail market. Soon, it'll become as cheap as many 8x DVD writers today. It'll be interesting to see whether GSA-4160B can write to YUDEN000T02 at 16x.

Kenshin: Posts: 12741; Posted on: 03 Sep 04 07:53

http://club.cdfreaks.com/http://club.myce.com/showthread.php?p=677786#post677786 13,970 Yen.

Kenshin: Posts: 12741; Posted on: 03 Sep 04 08:00

Without tax, a Tokyo shop sells GSA-4160B for approximately US$120.

Kenshin: Posts: 12741; Posted on: 05 Sep 04 09:22

I meant to type 120 US dollars.

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16x DVD writer from LG available in Japan

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