Teac Japan launches two new DVD recorders, 8x and slim drive
Posted on 08/12/03 18:43 by Dennis                             
Teac Japan launches two new DVD recorders, 8x and slim drive

GristyMcFisty reports us that Teac Japan has posted information on their website of two new DVD recorders. The first one, the DV-W58E, is a DVD+R recorder which supports 8x recording for DVD+R media and 4x recording for DVD+RW media. The drive can of course also record CD-R and CD-RW media and does so at speeds of up to 32x for CD-R and 16x for CD-RW media.

Teac's other new DVD recorder is the DV-W22PUB, an external slim drive. According to Teac's website this drive is world's slimmest drive as it measures only 15mm thick. The DV-W22PUB can record DVD-RAM (2x), DVD-R (2x), DVD-RW (1x), CD-R (16x) and CD-RW (10x) media:

Specifications TEAC DV-W58E:

  • Applicable Disc Format Write
    • DVD+R Version 1.0/Version 1.1
    • DVD+RW Version 1.2
    • CD-R, CD-RW
  • Read
    • DVD+R Version 1.0/Version 1.1
    • DVD+RW Version 1.2
    • DVD-ROM (Single Layer, Dual Layer)
    • CD-TEXT, Photo CD, CD-Extra ( CD Plus ), Video CD
    • Audio CD, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW
  • Write Format
    • DVD +R : Incremental recording
      DVD +RW : Random recording
      CD-R and CD-RW : Disc-at-once, Track-at-once, Session-at-once, Packet write
  • Data Transfer Rate Sustained
    • [Write]
      • DVD+R Max, 8x-speed (ZCLV) 11.08MB/s
      • DVD+RW Max, 4x-speed (ZCLV) 5.54MB/s
      • CD-R Max, 32x-speed (ZCLV) 4.8MB/s
      • CD-RW Max, 10x-speed (Hi-Speed) Max, 16x-speed (Ultra-Speed) 1.5MB/s 2.4MB/s
    • [Read]
      • DVD-ROM (Single Layer) Max.12x-speed 16.62MB/s
      • DVD-ROM (Dual Layer) Max.8x-speed 11.08MB/s
      • DVD-R Max.8x-speed 11.08MB/s
      • DVD-RW Max.8x-speed 11.08MB/s
      • DVD +R Max.8x-speed 11.08MB/s
      • DVD +RW Max.8x-speed 11.08MB/s
      • DVD-Video (Single/Dual-Layer) 8x-speed 11.08MB/s
      • CD-ROM Max.40x-speed 6MB/s
      • Video CD Max.40x-speed 6MB/s
      • Audio CD(DAE) Max.40x-speed 6MB/s
      • CD-R/RW Max.40x-speed 6MB/s
  • Random Access Time
    • 130ms typ. average (DVD-ROM)
    • 100ms typ. average (CD-ROM)
  • Data Buffer
    • 2MB

Specifications TEAC DV-W22PUB:

  • Recording Disc & Recording Speed
    • DVD-R: 2X (CLV), 1X (CLV)
    • DVD-RW: 1X (CLV)
    • DVD-RAM: 2X (ZCLV)
    • CD-R: 16-10X (ZCLV), 10X (CLV), 4X (CLV)
    • CD-RW: 10X (CLV), 4X (CLV)
  • Readable Discs
    • Press CD-ROM, Recorded CD-R/RW, Press DVD-ROM, Recorded DVD-R/RW , Recorded DVD-RAM
  • Applicable Disc Format
    • CD-DA, CD-ROM Mode 1
    • CD-ROM XA Mode 2 (From1, From2)
    • Multi-session Photo CDTM, CD-I, Video CD,
      CD Extra (CD Plus), CD-TEXT, DVD-ROM, DVD-R (General , Authoring), DVD-Video, DVD-RW
      DVD-RAM (4.7GB, 2.6GB / Read only)
  • Disc Rotation Speed (Read)
    • DVD-ROM: 8X CAV
    • DVD-Video: 4X CAV
    • DVD-RAM: 2X ZCLV
    • CD-ROM Mode 1:  24X CAV
    • CD-ROM Mode 2 Form 2: 8X CLV
    • CD-DA DAE: 8X CLV
    • Play Audio: 4X CLV
    • Mixed (CD-ROM Mode 1 and Mode 2 From 2 or CD-DA): 8X CLV
    • Mixed (DVD-ROM and DVD-Video): 4X CLV
    • CD-RW (Read only operation): 16X CAV
    • DVD-R/DVD-RW: 4X CAV
  • Interface
    • USB (Compatible with the USB 2.0 Full-Speed)
  • Random Access Time
    • 130ms typ. average (CD-ROM, 24X)
    • 130ms typ. average (DVD-ROM, 8X)
  • Data Buffer
    • 2MB
  • Loading Mechanism
    • Top loading
You are of course welcome to discuss these new Teac drives in our Recording Hardware Forum. If you want more information on the drives you can visit the Teac website here (for the DV-W58E) and here (for the DV-W22PUB).

Source: TEAC

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By Liggy, Monday 08 December 2003 19:29
LiggyThis time they seem not to be using a rebadged Pioneer drive. Might be some kind of NEC drive. Any better ideas?
By Hemispasm, Monday 08 December 2003 19:51
HemispasmI ve always found Teac drives to be quite reliable, i just cant understand why they aint making them a bit more pretty. A nice front bezel shouldn cost that much now should it? Plain white just aint pretty anymore Stick Out Tongue
[edited by Hemispasm on 08.12.2003 19:54]
By damiandimitri, Monday 08 December 2003 23:08
i wonder why they chose for the each drive an different standard. The first one is + and the other is -
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