BenQ Japan announces the DQ60 SuperMulti DVD writer
Posted on 27/09/05 19:08 by Johnny                             
BenQ Japan announces the DQ60 SuperMulti DVD writer

BenQ Japan today announced the specifications of BenQ's first SuperMulti DVD writer, the DQ60. Besides writing DVD-RAM at 5x speed the DQ60 also supports 16x/8x/8x DVD+R/RW/DL, 16x/6x/8x DVD-R/RW/DL and 40x/24x CD-R/RW:

BenQ DQ60 specifications
Write speed Write speed
DVD+R DL 8x CD-R 40x
DVD+R 16x CD-RW 24x
DVD+RW 8x Read speed
DVD-R DL 8x DVD-ROM 16x
DVD-R 16x DVD±R 10x
DVD-RW 6x DVD±RW/±R DL 8x
DVD-RAM 5x CD-R/RW/ROM 40x

BenQ DQ60

The drive and specifications look suspiciously similar to the TEAC DV-W516E which has been out in Japan for some months. The TEAC DV-W516E uses Panasonic chipsets and is according to rumours a TEAC design but with the manufacturing outsourced to BenQ.

Source: BenQ Japan

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By Scour, Wed 28 Sep 2005 01:47
Damn, why this drive not was avaible two weeks ago?
By code65536, Wed 28 Sep 2005 06:16
code65536Although manufactured by BenQ, this drive is designed by Teac and uses a Panasonic chipset (vs. the Philips Nexperia chipset used by all the previous BenQ drives). So it is certainly possible that this drive will not be as good as the 1640.
By darwin03, Wed 28 Sep 2005 14:45
I have found the Panasonic drives to be very good at ripping discs that other drives and DVD players will not rip or sometimes even read. That is why I still keep my old 2x Panasonic burner installed in my Computer. So I would say if they are using the Panasonic Chipset they would probably be very good.

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