Even though the manufacturers had for one moment counted on a strong demand for Blu-ray peripherals, they still have some waiting to do. It must thus create something new using the old and find something to restart the sales of DVD burners. Their new creed is burning at 24x.
Nec thus announced a new handful of chips that will make it possible for the burners to support this speed on the DVD and to burn CDs at 48x.
In same time, LiteOn announced the release of 24x burners for April.
Alas, the gain one can obtain from these increases speeds is marginal since the maximum rotation speed is not really obtained for the disks.
