SONY will start selling the external DVD-R/RW drive "PCVA-DRW1" (IEEE 1394 connection) from June 2001 in Japan. The drive's price is not yet announced and rumors says it would be around 100.000 YEN (820$).

Product Features:
- DVD-R/RW recording
- "DVDit" DVD authoring software
- "PrimocDVD" for data
- Supports DVD-R for General v2.0
- Supports DVD-RW v1.1
- Read-out: 24x (CD-ROM), 16x (CD-R/RW), 4x (DVD-ROM), 2x (DVD-R/RW)
- Writing: 8x (CD-R), 4x (CD-RW), 2x (DVD-R/RW)
- Accessory: Power cord/code, accessory CD-ROM (1)
- External size: 171×58×304mm
- Weight: 2.7kg

- Maximum recording time in a DVD-R/RW disc
MPEG2-8MBPS: 67minutes
MPEG2-4MBPS: 117minutes
MPEG1-1.4mbps: 3 hours 45minutes