LiteOn

The company has declared that its upcoming dual layer DVD recorder will hit the market sometime in August, and will have a chipset from Mediatek. The SOHW-832S offers: DVD+R 8x, DVD+RW 4x, DVD+R9 (double layer) 2.4x, DVD-R 8x, DVD- RW 4x.

The following standalone recorder, the LVW-5005 can record DVD+R/RW, DVD-R/RW and CD-R/RW media. It also supports reading of all the formats. It has a 54MHz/10-bit video D/A converter and a 192kHz/24-bit audio D/A converter. For convenience, it has both USB2.0 and IEEE1394 input interface, while it also has an S-video input and output, composite for both input and output and optical and coaxial digital outputs.