The market of 8x DVD burners almost mature

In mid-February, the market of 8x DVD burners should be mature. If the products of some manufacturers might be a few weeks late, the competition will be high enough to serve the customer.
In February should also appear the first reasonnably priced 8x certified DVD media. But most of 8x DVD burners can already burn good quality 4x discs at full speed. Our partner Macway has begun to test 8x burners, and told us it works with 4x certified discs.
Let's hope Apple won't be made outdistance on this point. For all the ones who wish to install such a device in their old mac, there might be problems in computers older than G4 (B&W G3, and beige ones). Indeed, burning at such a speed requires a high and constant data stream, that such computers are not always able to provide. The cache of 2MB shipped with most of the burners is more a symbol than a real buffer...