24x DVD burners in the shops soon

x24 is only 2 larger than current x22 models commonly available for less than 20 quid. Doubling? Not really worth a story.

24x writing is double the current line of products which burn upto 12x. I think you'll find the 20x DVD-RW's are actually the read speed.

Who even writes at 12x? That is a high requirement for the media itself which very few meet.

Personally, I still write everything at 4x or 6x even though my burner supports 12x - the quality of the burn is much, much better (according to Nero CD-DVD Speed). I _always_ choose to sacrifice of few more minutes for a better quality burn.

Maybe not the same makes, but LG have had a 22x writer (not read speed) available for ages. And they write very well to 16x media with no problems. Who needs it? Anyone who wants to write a disc in less than 5 minutes, duh.

This is all well and good, but wheres the media to write on. 16 is the max that I can get. I agree with the above punter slower is better and if the accuracy of the 24x is good then you should be able to burn at a faster rate, oxymoron slower but faster.

Drive have been getting faster and faster, yet the media has not really evolved much beyond 8x. There is faster media, but most of it is low quality

I have now owned 3 Lite-On drives a cd writer that stopped writing at 20 speed and would only write at 4 speed without burning coasters and i have had 2 dvd writers at just a year old both of them the trays stick on the funny thing is both of them came with a tool to eject the tray manually ,both the Lite-On dvd writers were bought because they came with silver bezels I would never again buy a Lite-On product and have just replaced them with my preferred make lg even though they are black.

i've had an LG 22x dvd burner for ages. It may only read dvds @ 16x, but it burns 16x dvd + or - @ 22x, +DL @ 16x, and -DL @12x - it cost about £18 when i got it, i think it's about £15 now), so 24x isn't really news worth shouting about as the speed advantage will be minimal, a few seconds faster at best.

If they'd managed to put 24x dvd burning on a BR burner i'd be slightly more interested

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