Demonstrated at CeBIT, Hannover, the upcoming Liteon SOHW-832S is widely expected in the European market in a couple of weeks. French website www.clubic.com reports that the drive has already appeared in online stores at a price tag of approximatelly €160. The drive uses MediaTek's chipset for Double Layer recording (DVD+R9), meaning that 8.5GB of data will be burned on a single disc at 2.4x.

Basic Specifications:

- Buffer: 2 MB
- Interface: IDE
- Write CD-R: 40x CAV
- Write CD-RW: 24x Z-CLV
- Write DVD+R: 8x Z-CLV
- Write DVD+RW: 4x CLV
- Write DVD-R: 8x Z-CLV
- Write DVD-RW: 4x CLV
- Write DVD+R9: 2,4x
- Read CD: 40x CAV
- Read DVD: 12x CAV
- Disc capacity:
8.5 GB DVD+R DL, 4.7 GB DVD+R
- Recording format UDF and ISO 9660
- Recording media:
8cm CDs (only in hor. pos.), CD-R, CD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+R double layer, DVD+RW, DVD-R, DVD-RW
- Supported formats: 8cm discs, CD-Audio, CD-Bridge, CD-Extra, CD-I, CD-Recordable, CD-Rewritable, CD-ROM, CD-Text, DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD-ROM, DVD/R, DVD/RW, Photo CD
- Write modes: Disc at once (DAO), Fixed packet, Multi Session (MS), Over-burn writing, Packet writing, Raw mode burning, Session at once (SAO), Track at once (TAO),Variable packet