Pioneer Japan today unveiled the specifications the eagerly awaited DVR-A08. It's the first writer to support 16x DVD speed for both the DVD+R format and the DVD-R format and it will burn at 16x speed on selected 8x media. But that's not all because it will also support 'overspeeding" of 2.4x DVD+R DL media to 4x speed making it the first 4x double layer writer!

Pioneer DVR-A08 specifications Write speed DVD+R DL 4x DVD+R 16x DVD+RW 4x DVD-R 16x DVD-RW 4x CD-R 32x CD-RW 24x Read speed DVD-ROM 16x DVD-RAM 2x CD-ROM 40x Buffer size 2 MB

The DVR-A08-J is expected to be shipping in Japan in late July and will be available in three different colors; white, black and silver. This version seems to correspond to the XL version in Europe and USA so you can probably expect a cheaper DVR-A08/108 version later with a less fancy front bezel too. Thanks to Sen for finding the news! You can find the complete press release here.

Update: Pioneer Europe's press release is available here now. According to this the European XL version "will be available in September for under €200".

Source: Pioneer Japan