The drive supports interesting formats, such as the MPEG2 standard, which offers an excellent picture quality for movies. And the 5.1 channel-At3 surround sound ensures a great sound experience for audio applications. The DV-516E disk inter alia offers formats such as DVD+RWs, DVD-RWs and DVD-R as well as CD-DA (4-10X for play-audio, 16x for data extraction). Thanks to the multiread function, the DVD-Rom is compatible with all common CD standards.

The 512 KB data buffer ensures a steady and fast data transfer rate and supports the IDE mode PIO mode 4 / UDMA mode 33. Tests at the TEAC development laboratory verify an MTBF time of more than 100,000 POH (duty 20%). The high data transfer rate in CD-ROM mode CAV is 48x and in DVD mode CAV 16x. The medium access time for both DVD and CD-ROM is 85 ms.