Optorite's new DVD recorder, the DD0405, will hit the market before end of February. The drive will offer 8x recording for DVD-R/+R and 4x for DVD+RW/-RW formats. Under the HD-Burn mode, CD-R discs will be burned at 24x. DD0405 is also a 40x/24x/40x CD-RW recorder. Current owners of the previous DD0401 model will be able to upgrade their drive to 8/8x DVD-R/+R with a firmware upgrade, available in the Optorite drive end of February.

Basic fetures of the DD0405 include the BURN-Proof Buffer Under Run protection and a 2 MB internal buffer and the HD–BURN function that increases the the capacity of CD-R media (x2).

Specifications:

- Data transfer speed: Max. 33MB/sec. (Ultra DMA mode 2)
- Random Seek: DVD: 130ms and CD: 100ms
- Write Speed:
DVD+R 8x
DVD-R 8x
DVD+RW/-RW 4x
CD-R 40x
CD-RW 24x
HD-BURN 24X

- Read Speed:
DVD-ROM 12x
CD-ROM 40x
HD-BURN 78X

- Writing Type:
DVD+R: Incremental Write (Multi Session Support)
DVD-R: Disc at Once, Incremental Recording (Multi-Border Support)
DVD+RW: Random Write
DVD-RW: Rigid Restricted Overwriting, Incremental Write
CD-R/RW: Disc at Once, Session at Once, Track at Once, Packet Writing (Multi Session Support)